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DERBY COLT WORKS WELL T C MCDOWELLS THE MANAGES SEEN IN IMPRESSIVE TRIAL AT LOUISVILLE Bon of Voter and Bracegirdle Covers a Mile in 149 149at at Douglas Park in Preparation for Approaching ApproachingBlue Blue Ribbon Event of Kentucky Turf Louisville Ivy April 5 Tlic fastest work of tbo season lv a Kentucky Derbv candidate was done ir Douglas Park this morning bv Maj T C McDowells crack colt The Manager With J Ilicks in the saddle he went a mile in 1451 cantering all tin way The fractional time was 14jf 27 39 13 105 118 132 lie pulled up as if per ¬ fectly fresh After exhibiting all the famous dasli and speed for which he was noted as a twoyearold Mich horsemen as J 15 Respess Peter Wiiuuier Jolin F Schorr and T P Hayes timed him in com ¬ pany with Major McDowell and were much im ¬ pressed J y his work workAt At the Downs the best Derby work was by Hen ¬ derson Ilogans brown colt Gnaranbla He can ¬ tered throequarters in 122 tins first half beinc done in 54 Many twoyearolds were worked for short distances but there was nothing striking in their iicrforniauces a quarter in 24 by a couple of T P Hayes youngsters being the best today at either track Bourbon Beau was one of the older horses that took work this morning under tlie saddle but he was only cantered a mile and a half the last quarter being covered in 27 27T T C McDowells Kentucky Oaks candidate True Blue has licen in such bad condition on the ailing list for a day or two that her owner has decided to throw her out of training until fall and as soon as she can stand the trip he will ship her to Ash ¬ land Farm where he has turned out at present the Jillies lima and Star Jasmine Up to this mishap 1rHe Blue had done everything expected of her in her training this year and her owner deeply regrets the necessity for retiring her for a brief period as lie really believes she would have won the Kentucky Oaks which event he has previously won with Kuril Kings Daughter and EllenaDale True Hlno lima and Star Jasmine will all be taken up late in the suijsmer and fitted for fall racing Major McDowell will still have fifteen horses in training at Douglas Park Aside from the three yearolds The Manager Affable Nonpareil and Accord the McDowell stable is made up of two yearolds Three of the number are Breeders Fu ¬ turity candidates namely McCorkle chestnut colt by Disguise Quadruple Understudy chestnut filly liy Star Huby Bracegirdle and a chestnut colt by Yankee Monarka The rest of his twoyearold string embraces a bay colt by Golden Garter a bay lilly by Greenan a chestnut colt by Orlando Belle of Ashland chestnut colt by Stalwart Ancient Jiiiy colt by Planudcs Kanawha chestnut colt ly Nasturtium Lucy Lockett chestnut colt by cesariou Star Cat and brown filly by Star Hub Mirth The latter has been named Star Actress Major McDowell now lias what he considers the best band of yearlings lie ever raised at Ashland Farm The pick of the collection are a chestnut oalt bv Hastings Monarka a bay colt by Ben Brush Bracegirdle a brown colt by Sain Countess Irmn a bay colt by Yankee Lady Anne this youngster is tlie exact counterpart in conformation of The Manager a chestnut filly by Watercress Belle of AshUind a bay lilly by Golden Garter Fancy wood ind a chestnut lilly by AllanaDale Miss Gussie The latter is a sister to Berwick and Hnck and a half sister to True Bine Bracegirdle Lady Aline ind Fancywood have not as yet foaled this year The first named will soon drop a foal to Plaudit while Lady Anne will soon foal to Voter Major McDowell had the misfortune to lose Monarka last winter but Countess Irma now has a foal by Plan ndes and the Belle of Ashland has a filly foal by The Scribe Miss Gnssie will foal shortly to Star Shoot Major McDowell is mating his mares this vear to si big array of stallions He will send four to Voter two each to Ben Brush Petor Pan Water oress and Plaudit and one each to Peep oDay Star Shoot and the Futurity winner Ogden The mare mated with the latter horse is the famous racer Kings Daughter which lias just begun her first sea ¬ son in Hie stud studFoursome Foursome lias been retired to the stud by George T Loujf owner of Itashford Manor and horsemen who recall the speed shown by this filly at tlie Downs are keenly awaiting the coining of one of her colts to the races She is one of the most beauti ¬ fullybred young mares in the country being by imported McGee out of the celebrated imported Heller Skelter the dam of Hnrly Burly which produced Harry Payne Whitneys great horse Burgo ¬ master masterFred Fred Luzader thinks Forward which is expected to arrive here soon from Charleston with tlie stable of James is Kverman will have a chance when he meets the sensational Hawthorn It is now believed hero that these crack twoyearolds will first meet sit Lexington Then the defeated one can get an ¬ other trial at Churchill Downs in the Bashford Manor Stakes As far as condition goes neither Iris an stdvantagc over the other Both are seasoned iiv winter training and racing A majority of liorse jaen will doubtless favor Hawthorn on the occasion of their first meeting meetingT T P Hayes has what appears to be the best stable of horses this spring that he lias raced since ihe davs when racing flourished at St Louis several veirs since Most of his band are twoyearolds He has given them careful attention since last fall uid several of them seem as fit as twoyearolds which have l eeii raced all winter Horses from his inrii have done about the fastest work shown at Doiiirlas Iark this spring One of his threeyearolds has gone a mile in 140 140Sunt Sunt Frank Keegan has renewed the work of leveling the inner field at the Itowns He is gradu iiy getting that part of the course so that it will be possible to finally stand anywhere along lie fence around the track and see the hoofs of a racer on any part of the course courseRound Round tlie World apjicared under saddle at the Downs Thursday for the first time she lias been ihown rigged In this way since her arrival from Charleston She has filled out amazingly Ingoing lown the backstretch she wanted to run and was fliting for her head all the way It is uiuler Ktood that W G Yanke will only race her at Short distances at the Downs this spring He will wait until late in the summer before asking her In i clash with handicap hom s at a mile or more Itound Hie World is the ideal type of sprinter Mr Yanke thinks that by racing here in this way in short contests she will race on better in future futureyThe yThe noted stallion Garry Herrmann recently pur oliasecl by J I Widener from the estate of D i Kchcndorf will be sent next summer to his Pennsylvania home This shows how persistent a millionaire will pursue his course to attain an end in 1tOC at the closing out sale of the late Capr S S nrmrnK Scnorita Stud at Lexington an agent of V i Widener bid the handsome sum of 14500 for liio sire of Governor Gray W Harry Brown would cli Garry Herrmann and bought him in for SSAVmnrc Later Mr Brown sold the stud and as Govinwr Gray had not at that time been developed and several of Garry Herrmanns set had raced dis apitointingly Garry Herrmann was disposed of to Peter Clinch for 5400 Mr Clinch took the horse to New Brunswick and after Governor Gray dis ¬ played such sensational sliced the local trainer Walter Hopkins went to New Brunswick and bought the horse for D Mcschendorf paying Mr Clinch a considerable profit on his bargain A few weeks ago Mr Widener became tlie oyner of all of the Mcschcndorf horses horsesIf If George 3 Long had fancied Irish Gentleman as much as trainer Pete Coyne did when J Hochreins good fouryearold was a yearling that son of Mc Gec and The Lady would now be in the Uiru of the owner of the Bashford Manor Stable at Churchill Downs Mr Long saw that trainer Coyne liked the colt and told him to buy him ifhe wanted him but that horseman stopped when the bidding reached 1500 and W C Overton bought him for J E Madden for 1550 Had the Louisville turfman fancied the colt as his trainer did he would never have stopped bid ¬ ding as he always gets what he goes after but the spending of Longs money by Coyne was another thing and right at that time the conscientious trainer thought 1500 was about all any yearling was worth Instead of Irish Gentleman he bought Uamazan for 700 If anything the latter was a better looking yearling than Irish Gentleman but the Hochrein crack lias far outraccd Ramazan
