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GOOD FIELD NOW ASSURED LATONIA DERBY CANDIDATES GOING ALONG NICELY AT LOUISVILLE TRACKS. Meridian May Be Shipped Back from Canada to Fill His Derby Engagement at Kenton County Track — Governor Grays Owner Confident. Ijouisville. Ky., May .".1. — All the Latonia Derby f amlidalcs wore out :ii Churchill Downs and Douglas Park yesterday taking slow exercise. Meridian, m liicli It. I*. Carman may ship back to Kentucky From Canada or the Derby, was cantered slowly in company willi Magazine and looked as lit as could lie. Til-- I.alonia Derby favorite tills the eye and is the admiration of all the trainers. Peter Wimmer. the astute trainer who was in charge of Scnorita Stud when .Meridian was foaled, seems to think that the Kentucky Derby winm r will fancy the mile anil a half route at I.alonia as well as hi did the shorter Derby distance here. The colts sire could both sprint and stay and Meridian is a more sturdily built horse than was Broomstick. Since his Derby victory here. .Meridian lias shown no signs of the soreness he exhibited at times earlier in the spring at I.oxingtoii ami the Carman crack is now undoubtedly training soundly. John F. Schorr is net much put out over the defeat of his I.atonia Derby candidate. Star Charter. Inn- last Salurday. as two good lillies finished in trout of him and he was conceding eleven pounds to one and fourteen to the other. The lirst mile ill that lace was also run faster than the mile in the Bourbon Handicap Thursday when Kinds Daughter and Oaana Ugmed in a dead heat, with Bonnie Kelso in third place. Mr. Schorr says that Star Charter will surely start in the I.atonia Derby and he looks for the Chirk Handicap winner to give a good account of hiinsei • :1s he runs better for .1. Wilaon than any other boy ami that rider will have tin mount on him in the big race. Oarer nor Gray came out of the Louisville Handicap in tine condition and was walking around the shed of bis stable at the Downs as if he had not been raced for a month. Jockey A. Thomas, who node k him Saturday, told Captain Williams that the noted gelding did not begin to run until the race was nearly over, but that when he tinally got on his stride, he appeared to have all his speed and that had the race been a mile he would have been much closer up. Captain Williams thinks that over the mile and a half route Governor Gray will shine, fhe sou of Garry Herrmann — Salama was today •-liipped to I.atonia and he will get his final trials for the Derbv at the Kenton County coot at about the middle of next week. Captain Williams predicts that if his horse is beaten in the Derby. Han dOrs mark of 2:32;. made when he beat Plaudit thirteen yours ago. will surely be eclipsed. V. G. Vanke announces Round the World as a positive starter ami expects her to display her beat form. She has improved in appearance considerably since she ran in the Kentucky Derby. She will he a starter in the Kentucky Oaks, to be run on the final day of the Churchill Downs meeting and will, after the finish of that race, be worked out the mile and a half as a final preparation for her Latouia Detbj engagement. .1. R. Kespess is considering the advisability of starting Forehead, hut it is doubtful if he will, as the colt is not considered to he of Derby timber. Messenger Roy finds many supporters, notably among those who witnessed his performance in the Derby a! Jacksonville, in which be landed third. There are a few who are inclined to think that he should have been the winner of that race. Applications for table room continue to pour in and the proper accommodation of the late come re pioinis.-s to present a problem to the management! Of course, those that made reservations earlier, will be given preference. The indications are that there will be at least 1.200 horses in the vicinity of tile track this season. This will bo more than have been at Churchill Downs and Douglas lark during the present term of racing here. Ijirry Rogonschuts. the track superintendent at I.atonia. who has been bete assigning horsemen their stable |iiarters. announces that the remodelled plant will be in thorough readiness for opening day. The advance sale of box seats for Derby day has nearly exhausted the supply and every indication points to the coming Derby day as the greatest in the history of the Milldale track. Cincinnati. O., May 01. — No less than eight valuable stakes are to lie given by the Latonia Jockey lob during the thirty-one days meeting which uni-nieiices at the picturesoue Kenton County track on Saturday. June IP. The value of these rich events will aggregate 820.000 and. with liberal purse races ami overnight handicaps, the total distribution among the horsemen luring the spring meeting will exceed 1." . MK. This will mean an average daily distribution of about £3,700, which will lie greater 1I1.111 that of any former year. Although the Latonia Derby is the premier attraction of the meeting, and is at present coining in for the bulk of public attention, the other fixtures are not being overlooked in the general discussion. Aside from the Derby the chief interest centers around the Cincinnati Trophy, which occupies a secondary place in importance and value to that of the big event id the opening day. This race, which is one of the newest of the La-lonia spring li tines, having been first run in the year 1903, bus leaped into prominence within recent ears until it has become one of the foremost of Kentuckys juvenile contests. It is for two year olds and the distance is five and a half furlongs. Its value is $::. Min. and the owners of all the crack two-year-oMa are pointing for the rich prize. This race will not be run until July s. The two-year old stake events of the present Kentucky season have attracted mote nominations than tlie stakes for mature horses, and the Cincinnati Trophy is no exception to this rule. For this im-poftant stake 114 of the best two-year-olds in training have been nominated, the list of eligibles containing the names of all of the good ones that have been seen in action at liOxington and Louisville, it Is a noteworthy fact that the Cincinnati Trophy has attracted more nominations than any other slake to be decided at the Latonia spring meeting. Roth in-the number and quality of the juveniles that will be engaged, the race will be far aliove that of any former year. ► Prominent among those counted upon as certain to start will be Thomas C. McDowells chestnut colt. The Manager, which triumphed so impressively in the Br bus Futurity at Lexington, the Irst of the rich juvenile events to lie decided in Kentucky this Mason. The si f Voter and Rracegirdle won such I decisive victorv in this race that his superiority was firmly established. The owner of the colt has not started him since and does not expect to start him at Hie Louisville sieeting, preferring to save the colt for his important engagement in the Cincinnati Trophy. Anion, the California -bred Iuryear D. — Adelfa colt, bred by A. R. Bpreeketa at bis famous Napa Stock Farm, and now owned by Edwin Gay lord of Denver, will also be a sure starter for the Trophy. Amon beat every good two year-old at Oakland last winter, after which he was taken to Juarez, where in his only start the colt lowered the colors of the beat of his age racing at that track. After being shipped to Plmllco Anion was taken sick and for this reason ha was not sent to the post. He has fully recovered since being transferred to Louisville, but it is hardly possible that he will be started at the Downs. Under the care of Henry McDaniel fhe colt is going along well and is being pointed especially for bis Cincinnati Trophy engagement. It is probable that he may be suen in action in a race previous to his engagement in the big race. Worth, recently acquired by H. C. Hailenbeek of New York for 810,000, and which won a considerable part of his purchase money by scoring in the Rash-ford Manor Stakes at Louisville, is another nominee to the Cincinnati Trophy that will lie accorded much support on the lay of the big race. This Knight of the Thistle — Miss Hanover colt has been winning over all kinds of tracks and is a good weight carrier, having had an impost of 121 pounds in the Bashford Manor Stakes, when he was conceding weight to all of his opponents. A meeting between this proven crack and The Manager and Amon will arouse keen interest. Other youngsters that are likely starters in the Cincinnati Trophy aud which are expected to figure prominently in the final outcome of the race are odd Nymph, which will carry the colors of Raleigh Colston: Floral Day, owned by F. F. Driver: Working Lad. which has two victories at Louisville to his credit: Aayiade, a tried and true performer owned by Lon Jones: Ipright. which will carry George M. Moms colors: Clara Atkin, a sister to the noted Jack Atkin. which Rarney Schreibcr is preparing for the big race: Lady Lightning, a winner at Louisville, and King Rroomstiok. which has already carried the colors of I. n. Wbeatcroft successfully. The two-year-old stakes this Reason have invariably attracted large fields, and the Cincinnati Trophy field promises to be as large, if not larger, than the juvenile events that have already boon decided in this state. The race is sure to be hotly contested and the winner, unless there should be some lake about the running, will be heralded as the greatest western juvenile of the year.
