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DERBY COLT IN FAST WORK THE MANAGER WORKS A MILE IN 144 AX DOUGLAS PARK T C McDowells Candidate for Kentucky Derby DerbyHonors Honors Seen in Impressive Trial Other OtherHorses Horses Begin to Show Speed Louisville Kv April 11 The Manager T C Mr wells Kentucky Derby cniuliilatc did some seil Derby work when at Douglas Park this niorulng with J Hicks In the paddle he went A mile in 1M4 He broke slowly going the first eighth in 13J and reaching the quarter post in 27 hut from then n he gathered speed and ran the thrce tIghths in 3S the half in 51 fiveeighths in 1 threequarters in 1175 and seveneighths In loJs He inilleil up without showing a hit of fatigue and cooled out satisfactorily after his rattling good trial trialThere There were i number of smart twoyearold trials T C McDowells chestnut colt by Yankee Mouarka woit si half in 5it and the same owners chest ¬ nut eolt by Stalwart Ancient went a similar dis ¬ tance in 52 T 15 Hcspess black colt by Dick Welles Iass of langden went throeeighths in S ami tlia same owners brother to the Kenticky Derby winner Wintergreen went the distance in i T 1 Hayes worked several Ornament colts n quarter in belter than 25 and Messrs llespess and MclKiwell did the same with several twoyear olds oldsThe The most sparkling bit of work was by John W Schorrs Latonia Derbv candidate Froglegs This win of Misctto went tlireeeigliths in X Trainer J F Schorr also worked Star Charter threequarters in 118 and this good fouryearold ran as if he is rapidly getting fit Other works included the fol ¬ lowing lowingiliohia iliohia Quarter mile in 24 easily easilyTockspur Tockspur Eighth mile in 14 cantering canteringCoppertowu Coppertowu Quarter mile In 27 handily w Dr Jackson Eighth mile In 13 cantering canteringFighting Fighting Hope Half mile In 55 Is rounding lo loPass Pass Quarter mile in 24 24Kay Kay U Quarter mile in 24 handily handilySam Sam Hurst Quarter mile In 2Gy5 canterinf canterinfSebago Sebago Threeeighths in 4J His first work since arriving here hereWhite White Wool Threeeighths in 42 well in hand handWinning Winning Widow Quarter mile in 24 handily handilyTock Tock r George Glasner who has been out of the saddle for nearly two years is back with T I1 Hayes at Douglas Park getting into condition to ride on the Kentucky tracks this spring Glasucr was injured when a horse fell with Dim at Latonia uearlv two years ago and for a long time his life was despaired of He has at last completely re ¬ covered and has hopes of riding In good form again againTin Tin lightweight rider Harry Jones formerly eon lufUd with the stable of J 11 Wainwright is now with the Hayes string and is getting into condition 1 ride when the Churchill Downs meeting opens on May 11 11O O D Itay has arrived here from Charleston with Emily Lee and Ainoret The latter won six straight iaics at the South Carolina track and was in fact mil of the most improved horses in action at Charleston CharlestonKd Kd Jasper who acts as assistant secretary here thinks that the Clark Handicap has one of the best iirray of entries this season ever named for tnis Sitaki The total number is sixtyeight and the best Jiorss now racing figure in the list The older ItoisfS f prominence embrace Prince Ahmed Merid ¬ ian the Kentucky Derby winner of 1011 Bonnie Kelso Starlxittle The Turk Sempronius Heathw jiroom Ocean Hound Bourbau Beau Guy Fisher HwaiJiianoa Mary Davis Adams Express Granlt ChCiTVoIa Carlton G Fashion Plate Fireman T M Orrcii Star Charter Arasce and High Private while iinong the threeyearolds are such good ones as Wheelwright Bachelor Girl Buckhorn Kaiser Sprite Worth The Manager Sonada and Imdy Lightning Lightningtiiong tiiong the horses that are training well for J It Jlespess at Douglas Park is the fiveyearold brown liorse Vrecland which was raced as a threeyearold liv Barney Schreiber and as an older horse by M Prichard Mr Uesi ess also thinks Well this sea ¬ son if his fouryearold Water Wells and Volthorpu Is another one of this string which is training prom ¬ isingly isinglyThe The Kentucky Association meeting which begins ri April 27th two weeks before Derby day here ou Miv 11 will draw about one hundred horses from the two local courses Most of the horses which go from here are twoyearolds AH will return to the Downs sit the close of the Lexington meeting and there will not be less than COO horses at the two tracks here when the local meeting opens This will o an overabundance for a fifteendays raci meeting as the program in contemplation will pro vld two races for twoyearolds each day leaving onlv four races for the threeyearolds and older Jiorses While this may seem a bit scanty as com nared with some other seasons when a thousand horses wore quartered at the two tracks it must IKS remembered that in those days there was always a lot of dead timber in the sUibles and in reality there won actually no more horses ready to race than villlx here for the coming meeting Now train ¬ ers retain In their strings only those horses which lliev are sure to l e able to race and the dead tim j crof these stables is sent to the farms to be rested
