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RAIN AGAIN INTERFERES WITH TRAINING OF DERBY CANDIDATES AT LOUISVILLE Louisville Ky April 15 Continued rains caus ¬ ing Churchill Downs and Douglas Park to be deep in mud prevented anything like real work over either course Sunday and only a limited number of thoroughbreds were out The only Kentucky Derby eligible that did more than trot was the Henderson Hogitn entry Guarauola He galloped a mile at a twominute gait gaitThe The fastest work Sunday was by Terrible Boy owned by Edward Ilubel He went five furlongs in 100 on the extreme outside of the track Other works were wereAll All canteringBen Red Threeeighths In 43 cantering goodCrossover Ben K Sleet Fiveeighths in 111 looks good Crossover canteringDr Threeeighths in 42 cantering Dr Jackson Eighth mile in 11 pulled up to a walk walkFighting Fighting easilyHomeland Hope Quarter mile in 29 easily Homeland Quarter mile in 28 28Jim canteringJohn Jim CalTerata Half mile in 58 cantering John Griffin II Quarter mile In 27 27Kitty Kitty K Threeeighths in 43 43Royal canteringW Royal Captive Quarter mile in 28 cantering W II Ford Eighth mile in 14 handily handilyNone None of the Derby candidates at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park worked better than at a two minute gait this morning In fact there was Httla trial work by any of the horses though the tracks had dried out considerably What wort was done was in preparation for tomorrow when the going promises to be good The best trials were wereCockspur Cockspur Threeeighths in 43 handily handilyGolden Golden Ramble Quarter mile in 28 first eighth in 13 13Hannis Hannis Half mile in 57 cantering High canteringHigh canteringIrish Private Quarter mile iii 28 cantering Irish Mike Quarter mile in 27 cantering Leopold canteringLeopold Threeeighths in 44 pulling up Round upRound the World Threequarters in 121 easily easilyStar Star ORyan Threeeighths In 43 cantering canteringW W II Ford Threeeighths in 43 handily Winning Widow Threequarters in 123 canter ¬ ing ingJockey Jockey T Koerner has arrived home from Charles ¬ ton and will rest here until the Lexington spring meeting opens on April 27 Upon the occasion of the next work by The Manager T C McDowells Kentucky Derby candidate which will be some time this week Koernor will go to Douglas Park to rid the son of Voter This is done in order that he may become familiar with the colt Thc Joplln jockey will have the mount on The Manager in thc Bhie 1 grass Stakes at Lexington an J the Kentucky Derby here on May 11 11Tom Tom Brown returned today from Latonia He re ¬ ports about fifty horses in training at the Kenton County track A number there are In thc stable tf Barney Schreiber being trained by former jockey Dave Vititoe and will be shipped to the Downs W A Kirwin is again with Mr Schreiber as manager of this stable stableTrainer Trainer Steve Judge arrived from California to ¬ day and will assist O A Blanch in training the horses owned by the latter and those belonging to James MacManus Mr Judge recently visited A B Spreckles stud in California He says that there arc fifteen of the Spreckles liorses in training there in charge of William Carroll that will be sold as Mr Spreckles has decided to do no racing this year The string consists of one fouryearold one three yearold and thirteen twoyearolds George Berry formerly racing manager for Mr Spreckles is now in business for himself at Napa Cal CalGeorge George M Odoni has decided to have his noted mare Follie Levy fired and turned out for thc spring and summer He lias also concluded to locate his horse Traveller in the stud In Kentucky In case he does not seil him for breeding purposes next fall The horse is training well now and he thinks will race successfully but he hears good reports of the foals got by him in New York and ho believes him to l e a bright stud prospect Traveller is now six years old He is by Prince of Melbourne Kosi Prim by Potomac and she was out of Lady Prim ¬ rose a mare that raced successfully for the elder August Belmont BelmontA A carload of racers including the strings of Edward Rnbcl F Otis and D C Cotton went to Lexington today from Churchill Downs After the Lexington races these liorses will be returned to the Downs for the meeting which opens on Satur ¬ day May 11 In the shipment were St Orloff Crossover Terrible Boy Jim Cafferata and John Griffin II IIThomas Thomas Sellers whose deatli occurred at Lexing ¬ ton last Saturday was widely known among trainers at thc Downs His greatest success on the turf was achieved on the Chicago tracks some years ago where he raced Monk Wayman and The Devil He also won several good races at the Downs with these horses In recent years Sellers has always had one or two horses in training but few of these have proved winners Preparations have been made at the Downs for the housing of the IL C Hallenbeck string Local horsemen are keen to see Worth in order to com ¬ pare him with his rival in thc Derby The Manager now quartered at Douglas Park The Hallenbeck string includes two other Derby candidates in the maiden colt Recompense and Sir Denrah Trainer Taylor must think well of Sir Denrah as he en ¬ tered this son of Peep oDay in the Clark Handicap together with Worth and Adams Express The racing string of P M Walker which is coining from Norfolk will be housed in thc saute barn with the Hallenbeck cracks cracksSeveral Several of the twoyearolds in 0 A Bianchis string arc working exceedingly well They are Homeland dam Resignation II OSullivan a son of Oddfellow and Rosinante and the halfbrother to Presumption Macdonough All appear to be highly promising youngsters Seemingly they pos ¬ sess speed of a high order They seem to be the most advanced of any youngsters at the Downs not raced during the winter unless it is thc two yearolds in the stables of C C Van Meter and G J LongR Long R A Thornton who has witnessed the riming of every Kentucky Derby and whose age is close to eighty years is still able to be around the Downs Every morning he may be seen watching the racers in their trials Mr Thornton not only has been present on every Derby day and attended the Ten BroeckMollie McCarthy fourmils race hut he saw Wagner defeat Grey Eagle on the Louisville race track which was then located in Seventh street near the site of thc Eclipse ball park at Seventh and Kentucky streets Mr Thornton is enjoying fairly good health Rheumatism is his only enemy George enemyGeorge J Iiong Louisvilles representative On the Kentucky State Itacing Commission was at the Downs today He said he was pleased with the excellent condition of his racers which are trained by Peter Coyne Mr Long said that if bis Derby horses Nicias and Free Lance meet with no mis ¬ hap lie will be represented in the big race raceLew Lew Marion who has returned to the turf with a string of horses this season after a year or so of idleness trained for Dan Ilonig when that turfman raced such famous horses as Van Lelan l Lelex Cartoon Leo H and Mamie Hunt Previous to this he had trained for Beinherit Wright who raced Barnett and other good performers After leaving Ilonig Marion became connected with a Ten ¬ nessee racing firm and while in their employ dcvel OIKM the famous filly May Thompson which he sold to Senator OBrien of Minnesota for 15000 When he quit this stable he took charge of the horses of Chris Smith and in one season he won with the Smith horses j OO He had charge of Yo Tam bien when she won the 20000 Garfield Park Derby and then for a year he left Smith but returned to take charge of his horses when Yo Tamhicn was a fiveyearold and that season the great mare was again almost unbeatable During the years lie was with Chris Smith ho trained the horses of this stable in conjunction with John Huffman thc latter handling one division of the string and Marion the other Other famous liorses then in the Smith stable were Van Buren Ccverton Dolly McCone and thc flying Maid Marian Upon quitting Smith he raced a mixed stable of liorses successfully around Chicago the greater number of which belonged to himself The best of these were Aniiie Oldficld Federal Mayor Johnson Blue Mint and Medallo His next venture was with the first stable formed by Irving IL Wheatcroft now in Australia He trained suc ¬ cessfully for Wheatcroft until tlie close of the Jack ¬ sonville meeting of 100010 Air Marion is not only famous as a trainer of horses but he has earned a great reputation by the development of jockeys He made Charley Thorpe a great rider Fred Taral first rode under his instructions lie also developed the colored brothers Lon and Al Clayton His last protege was the Louisville boy Carl Ganz Mr Marion has come back to the turf this season with a band of twoyearolds which horsemen arc noting closely as they recognize the ability of their trainer Mr Marion says that Dan Ilonig his first employer is still alive in St Louis but has been in poor health for several years That famous horseman quit the turf a good many years back now He made a fortune in the business and he is ending his days in ease easePeter Peter Wimmcr made a flying trip to Lexington recently and reports all the horses in training there are looking good and working well While there he hoard that John T Ireland the owner of Cherryola had decided to retire from the turf He now owns only three or four horses and these are at present in the care of W L Lewis at the Kentucky Asso ¬ ciation course Mr Ireland is quitting the turf to embark in the land business in Texas He has been racing horses for more than twentyfive years He was first a partner in the business with his brother Frank Ireland and when the latter retired he formed a partnership with his brotlierinlaw R L Thomas In late years he lias been racing horses on his own account Frank Ireland quit the turf about a decade ago and is now a prosperous business man in the west He has never owned any race horses since the partnership existing between him and his brother was dissolved many years ago H agoH C Hallenheck the owner of the Kentucky Derby favorite Worth is reported to have bought several promising twoyearolds from J E Madden The latter is disposing of all his thoroughbreds in training and will race no horses on the American tnrf in 1912 in accordance with the policy he has followed for several years The owner of Hamburg Place does not intend to cease breeding thorough ¬ breds but he is endeavoring to build up a market abroad for the product of his breeding stud He figures he can raise horses in Kentucky cheaper than he can in England and this is the reason he does not take bis stallions and mares abroad Mr Madden is quoted as saying that he will return to the running turf in this country with a stable when ¬ ever the sport is revived on the metropolitan tracks tracksFireman Fireman G M Odoms good Clark Handicap eli ¬ gible is looking well but his old knee ailment is still troubling him That is the reason thc son of Sir Dixon runs so well in the mud as when he gets warmed up on such a course his ailing knee does not affect him as it does when he is running on a hard fast track
