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ENDURANCE STAKES CANDIDATE WORKS. Louisville, Ky., September 1. The feature of the work-outs at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park today was the performance of the Kentucky Endurance Stakes candidate. Royal Report. The useful four-year-old went a mile and a quarter, pulled to a walk, in 2:15, after running the first mile in 1:452. Other good work-outs were: Captain Bravo Quarter mile in 20, handily. Dilatory Quarter mile in 25, easily. Dixie Hart Quarter mile in 20. handily. Fairy Story Three-eighths in 30. Freckle Three-eighths in 353; is good. Janie Ware Quarter mile in 25; in hand. Jim Basey Quarter mile In 24j; has all his speed. Johnny Pitts Half mile in 53, cantering. Lady Ormieant Half mile in 52; In hand. Louis Dos Cognets Three-quarters in 1:19J; is training well. Miss Coyne Five-eighths in 1:02 J, handily. Mollio Montrose Half mile in 52, cantering. Pilain Three-quarters in 1:21. handily. Queen Marguerite Half mile in 52; looks good. Sigurd Seven-eighths in 1:32, easily. Tom King Half mile in 50; worked impressively. Tommie Thompson Three-eighths in 3Gji, handily. R. F. Carman wired .this morning to Acting Secretary Ed Jasper to have stalls ready at the Downs for the reception of his thirty-live horses in training, which will reach here from Canada Wednesday morning. A division will be shipped from bore to Lexington to race during the coming mooting there. Col. JL J". Winn returned from New York today and reports that all the eastern turfmen are talking about the coming race meeting here and the running of the ,000 four-mile Kentucky Endurance Stakes,-which will be decided here on Saturday, October 7. Interest, he says, is intense throughout the country in this event, and in order that he may have a representative to run in the race James Butler has purchased from Mrs. N. B. Davis the filly Sclioolmarm. which is engaged in the big event. Thomas Monahan also informed Colonel Winn that his crack colt. Textile, would be shipped with his other horses to the Downs and that that noted performer will be a sure starter in the big race. W. J. Young, the Lexington trainer,, wrote Acting Secretary Jasper for twelve stalls today. Mr. Young says he has a lot of new horses and thinks he will have a good winning stable this fall. The horses lie trained for the eastern turfman, C. L. Harrison, owner of Waldo, arc no longer in his care, they having been turned over to trainer Jack Baker. It has been learned that G. B. Ott and his former trainer, Walter Grater, have agreed to disagree. Golden Egg and Mr. Otts other horses are now in the care of W. L. Lewis. C. C. Van Meter has the smallest string of horses at present that he has trained for a long time. He is still quartered at Douglas Park, where he has been since Latonia closed on July 15 and has at present only four horses in his barn, all two-year-olds. They are Robert, Dilatory, Dutch Boy and Cancel, and all are looking and training well. Eugene Elrod was at the Downs yesterday to arrange for the sotting up of the mutuel machines for betting, which will be allowed on the course on Labor Day. A straight, place and show device will be operated that afternoon at the Downs. The veteran trainer, Peter Wimmer, also has only four horses in training at Douglas Park, they being the three-year-old Any Port and the two-year-olds Cynosure. Beautiful and Sonada. The latter colt is working well for trainer Winnner and he expects him to give a good account of himself this fall. Both he and Cynosure are eligibles to the 1012 Kentucky Derby and Beautiful Is a Kentucky Oaks candidate for next season. Trainer John Iwe is looking after ten horses for Henderson and Hogan at -Douglas Park, besides training the stable of J. II. Mead. He has in the latter band Chapultepec. Pel Friar. Marlau Casey, Sona and Rompie. while the noted horse, John Louis, a Kentucky Endurance Stakes candidate, will be shipped to him from Canada within a few days. The older horses he has belonging to Henderson and Hogan are Snap. Colonel Hogan, Henry Walbank and Tim Judge, the other six being two-year-olds. The best of these are Guaranola, Fighting Hope and Marzo. AH of the fifteen horses trainer Lowe has in his care are working regularly and doing as well as he could wish. He let Sona and Rompie go to Chicago for the Labor Day racing, but both will be shipped back here early next week. The western trainer expresses himself as greatly pleased with Douglas Park as a training ground.
