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FAST TRIALS AT LOUISYILLE HORSES KEYED IIP FOR NEXT WEEKS OPENING AT CHURCHILL DOWNS. Selling Plater Credited With Fastest Work-Out of Hie Day Horsemen Begin to Return Their Oharges from Lexington. Louisville, Ky., May 4. Sensational was the work at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park this morning under sunny skies and over fast tracks. The Derby candidates all did only slow exercise, hut the older horses and some of the two-year-olds figuratively burnt nil the track. The fastest live-eighths of the morning was by Crow Kohb, a three-year-old owned by .lake Greenburg. He went the distance in 1:02s, running the first quarter in 23s. three-eighths in 35 and the half in 495. This work was nearly equaled by King Olympian. V. F. Schultes good four-year-old which went live-eighths in 1:0.!. He went the first quarter in 24?.. three-eighths in 3!J and the half in 4!t. A half-sister to Martine II. in Lou Jones stable, did the fastest work among the two-year-olds here today. She ran a half mile in 40. She went the iirst quarter in 23 and three-eighths in :."?. Other good works were as follows: Angelus Three-quarters in 1:17s. well in hand. Fractional: 25 , 3S, T,l, 1:03. Nearly up to his best form. Avlmer .Mile in 1:452. Fractional: 24J. .17, 50. 1:0:52, 1:1S. 1:2.. Never looked better. Hot tie Sue Three-eighths in IIS. Ready. Carlton G. Hair mile in -514. usque Mile in 1:45. handily. Fractionals: 24. 375. 50j. 1-AKli, 1:1SJ, 1:20$. Looks ready. Chartier Hair mile in 51 i, eased up. Is extra good. Commoners Touch Half mile in 51. Works like a good two-year-old. Descomnets .Mile in l:44j!. Fractionals: 24i, 372. 492, 1:03. 1:175. l:29i. Is lit. Edda Three-quarters in 1:1!, easily. Fractionals: 25. 3St. 51 1. 1:04H. Is good. Follle Levy Half mile in 4!. Under restraint all the way. Never better. Font Mile in l:4ii. Fractionals: 245, nsj. 51s. . 1:043. i:io, l::;0i. Looks good and works fast. Great Heavens Throe-quarters in 1:10, breezing. Fractionals: 24J. 3S, 52i. 1:05. Never better. Jim Milton Half mile in 51. easily; first quarter in 23. and three-eighths in 30J. One of F. J. lons cracks, .loyance Half mile in 40j Has speed to spare. King Dixon Three-eighths in :2H, handily. A Sir Dixon colt of promise. Light Blue Three-eighths in :SS, easily, lotting good. Mary Lee Johnson Half mile in 51 Could have worked faster. Maxims Pride Three-eighths in 38, cantering. Has all his speed. Odd Nymph Half mile in 512, cantering. A speedy two-year-old. Pliant Half mile in 50. Has speed and is a good looker. Royal .Report Mile in 1:47. Fractionals: 25, 39, 5li, 1:045. 1:10, l::;ij. Improving fast. Sleet Quarter mile in 27. cantering: iirst eighth in 12. A promising colt in L. Calms stable. Steeplejack Half mile in 52, easily. A likely two-year-old. Wander Mile in 1:45. Fractionals: 24, 373, 50, 1:05.. 1:1SJ, 1 :30. Looks extra good. Yinir Half mile in 51 . cantering. One of the best of A. It. Spreckcls youngsters. Zlnnnp Mile in 1:50. Fractionals: 25. 39. 52i, 1:05?,. 1:20. 1:32. Age seems to make no difference with this one. G. M. Odom has returned his two-year-old stake winner. Upright, from Lexington to the Downs, lie did not start him in the I.luo Crass Stakes owing to the track conditions at Lexington, which prevented giving him proper work for the event. The colt is a poor mud runner. Louis P. Doerhofer did not start Ursula Emma in the Elmeudorf Stakes today at Lexington, as trainer West found the Wily was sick. Upon her recovery she will be returned here.
