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HELD OF GOODLY PROPORTIONS ASSURED fOR KENTUCKY DERBY Louisville Ky April 0 Secretary Lyman H Davis of the New Louisville Jockey Club looks for the Kentucky Derby which is to be run on the opening day of the spring meeting here Saturday Slay 11 to be contested by a field of fully a dozen starters lie has the assurance already from the owners of Merry Beau Worth The Manager Pre ¬ sumption Duval Free Lance Sonada and Guara tola thit they will surely start and he expects J N Caniden to start either Wheelwright or Prae ¬ torian while Patruche hi W J Speirs barn snd Chief Lindsey In Dan Lehans stable are also likely starters lie doubts whether Flamma will be here to run in the race lint W Curst may conclude to start Working Lad and L P Doerhoefer may also send one of his two entries Jack Kills or Ursula Kmma to the post Another likely starter is Sir Blaise now being trained by W Grater for B 1 Guthrie GuthrieThis This foreshadows a grand field for the race for even with the usual accidents and mishaps In training there Is a sufficient number in firstclass condition to provide one of the largest fitIds of Derby starters at the Downs in recent years yearsW W C Overton writing to Secretary Davis for stable room for his five horses states that Merry Iean has worked all spring like a Derby colt and he sees1 nothing to prevent him from sending the sou of Oddfellow to the post for the big race raceThe The Churchill Downs and Douglas Park tracks were in excellent condition today and practically every horse in training was worked All jire tight ¬ ening up for real trials the last of the week The best Derby work was by Guaranola The Hender ¬ son Hogan candidate cantered a mile in 102 each half being covered In 50 All the other Derby can didates here Including The Manager Patruche NIcias Free Lance Presumption George Oxuard and Chief Lindsey were out but none o them did any part of their morning work at better than a two minute clip All seem to be in perfect training con ¬ dition and are improving daily The fastest two yearold work was by O A Bianchis bay colt by Beatcatcher Resignation II and his chestnut filly by the same sire out of Maid of Fermoy They went threeeighths in 40 going the first eighth in 13 and the quarter in 2G The unbeaten Haw since he arrived here His rider held him under double wraps all the way and he went a quarter pulled up in 27 Tho best work rasby thif threeyearold Casey Jones which went three quarters in 117 handily Other workouts were wereAll All Red Threeeighths in 42 slowing down downBen Ben K Sleet Fiveeighths in 103 First half in 30 30Bourbon Bourbon Beau Fiveeighths in 111 First hUf in 33 cantering canteringFighting Fighting easilyHigh Hope Half mile in 5G easily High canteringHound Private Half mile in 37 cantering canteringSpindle Hound the World Quarter mile in 23i cantering Spindle Half mile in 33 easily Winning easilyWinning Widow Quarter mile in 23 Showed keen speed speedSpindle Spindle bad a narrow escape from serious Injury by taking fright as he neared the gate which leads off the track at the quarter pole Throwing his rider he ran through the fence and tore the gato into kindling wood but apparently was not seriously injured He is trained by Louis Tauber and appeals to be in good condition conditionThe The racing string of L P Doerhoufer in charge of Shelby West consisting of fourteen horses ar ¬ rived at tho Downs from Charleston today Witli them came two horses owned by O Hak one of which is the old campaigner Westbnry Mr Doer ¬ hoefer camo on the same train with his stable J stableJ R Wainwright arrived today from Charleston and P II Knelielkamp was another arrival AI Lnznder has been looking after the Wainwright string here for the last few days as Fred Luzader the regular trainer of the aggregation is taking a rest at Latouia LatouiaI I A Jones wired from Charleston today for six stalls and was assigned quarters at the Downs DownsEdward Edward Jasper arrived here today from his home in Cincinnati where he went at the close of the Juarez meeting He will assist Secretary Lyman II Davis with the clerical work connected with tho Churchill Downs spring meeting scheduled to begin May 11 11Tho Tho fouryearold Del Friar which wintered here at the McKay farm was shipped today to trainer John Lowe his owner who is at Coeur dAlene Del Friar has not raced since the spring meeting here last year having during last summer and fall failed to recover from the effects of being jumped on by Scrimmage in a race at the Downs He Is now again in sound condition Del Friar was a useful threeyearold in the winter of 1011 at Juarez in the hands of the western trainer Dick Benson BensonLocal Local trainers were grieved by tho news of the death in Germany of James II McCormlck He was at one time connected with the California stable of Burns Wateihouse with which he had great success He frequently won as many as three races a day with their iiorses he having while in their employ one of the handiest strings ever gathered together His greatest triumph with any one horse was with Ilermis when that brilliant performer was a threeyearold He induced L V Bell to pav 13000 to II M Zieglw for this colt His first success with him was in the Travers Stakes at Saratoga and from that on the sensational performer was not beaten as a threeyearold The following season Mr McCormick sold the horse for Mr Bell to E R Thomas for fiO X 0 When the latter dis ¬ persed his racing string Mr Ziegler liought back His great horse and he is now in the stud in France Mr McCormick raced extensively in the west in tho early nineties and was running horses around St Louis for Burns Waterhouse as late as ISOO and 1S7 1S7W W K Lewis of Lexington has applied for stall room for nine horses at the Downs this spring and barns to house over two hundred horses are under reservation at the Downs for the shipment which will come here from Charleston at the close of the meeting there thereR R F Carman has engaged stall room at the Downs for twentytwo hordes which will arrive here from Charleston within the next ten days The string is headed by the Kentucky Derby winner of 1011 Meridian regarded by many good judges as about the best horse now in training on the American turf Inliko the Jacksonville Derby won last year by Governor Gray the Palmetto Derby run at Charles tori last Saturday has little if any bearing on the Kentucky Derby to be run off at Churchill Downs on May 11 The winner of tho Charleston race Jawbone is not engaged In the Kentucky Derby and none of the niost promising of the Kentucky Derby eligibles have raced at Charleston The only three Kentucky Derby cligiblos that went to the post in the Palmetto Derby were Cracker Box Flamma and Duval and while Cracker Box and Flamma fin ¬ ished respectively second and third in that race the fact that they were beaten by Jawbone docs not speak well for their chances at the Downs in May when they will be called on to meet such stars as Worth The Manager Presumption and Sonada SonadaThe The winner of the Palmetto Derby is a son of Samson quite a good threeyearold in 100i dtv veioped by Charles Hughes for II M Ziegler and sold by the latter to J B Madden who in turn transferred him to Fred Burlevv He won the Iro quois Stakes ono mile and a quarter at Brighton Beach in 207 and ran other good races He is a sou of Sainfoin an Epsom Derby winner and sire of August Belmonts 123000 Derby winner Rock Sand Jawbones dam is Jennie J by Hanover a sister to the Latonla Derby winner Ilernando and sho is out of Retrieve winner of the Latonia Oaks in ISStt Jawlioues greatgrandam was the noted race mare Patti by Billet In addition to Retrieve sho produced four stake winners in Roscinount Monterey Promenade and Montrose tho latter win ¬ ner of the Kentucky Derby in 1SS7 Patti was a halfsister to the great race horses Axtec and Dora Their dam also produced such good performers as Volo TheoJoro II and Van Leland
