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WORTH ARRIVES AT LOUISVILLE Kentucky Derby Favorite Now Quartered at Churchill Downs Day of Slow Trials Louisville Ky May 8 Worth the Derby fa ¬ vorite arrived today at 11 oclock from Lexington In charge of his trainer Frank M Taylor Thi crrnt colt came In a car attached to a passenger train He shipped in fine condition A big crowd witnessed the unloading of the horse at the Downs liniiuestlonably he looks to be in perfect condition Trainer Taylor said that Worth in his opinion would surely win h Derby The Manager will come from Lexington tomorrow The McDowell Derby candidate will surely start unless the course courseKentucky Kentucky Derby candidates bad a respite from fast work tills morning at Churchill Downs In order to clve the rack a chance to thoroughly dry out Su ¬ perintendent Keegan kept the dogs up until about eleven oclock Many horses however were can ¬ tered The fastest mile was by Labold in 148 He pulled up the mile and nn eighth in 202 His fractional time was 13 2G 39 52 105 120 134 The undefeated Hawthorn wenf five furlongs in 107 running the first quarter In 24 three furlongs in 3S and the half in 52 He was under stout restraint for the entire distance distanceOther Other work included includedAutolight Autolight Half mile in 53 first threeeighths in 39 39Bob Bob Farley Threequarters in 124 124Capitan Capitan Bravo Fiveeighths In 109 Fractionals 13 20 39 53 53Captain Captain Head Half mile in 55 55Chapultepec Chapultepec Fiveeighths in 107 107Cheerful Cheerful Threequarters in 127 127Coletta Coletta Fiveeighths in 107 Fractionals 13 23 38 51 51Crow Crow Robl Seveneighths in 1 37 37Dr Dr Jackson Threeeighths in 3S 3SElizabethan Elizabethan Mile and an eightli in 209 209Ella Ella Bryson Quarter mile in 26 Appears to be fit fitFeather Feather Duster Threeeighths in 41 41Flying Flying Feet Fiveeighths in 110 110Forward Forward Half mile in 52 Done handily handilyHoricon Horicon Threequarters in 127 127J J B Robinson Fiveeighths in 111 111John John Robert Mile in 150 fractionals 13 26 39 52 108 122 130 130Johnny Johnny McCabe Quarter mile in 28 28King King Olympian Seveneighths In 140 fractionals 28 42 57 111 111Leopold Leopold Half mile in 54 threeeighths in 39 39Letourno Letourno Fiveeighths in 108 108Madello Madello Half mile in 54 54Mack Mack B Enbanks Half mile in 5173 5173Meridian Meridian Threequarters in 119 first half in canteringPass 52 cantering Pass On Threeeighths In 38 38Pierre Pierre Dumas Threequarters in 122 Frac ¬ tionals 13 27 39 53 108 108Pikes Pikes Peak Half mile in 52 52Pluvious Pluvious Threequarters in 124 124Politeness Politeness Quarter mile in 27 cantering Round the World Quarter mile in 28 cantering Looks good c Semprite Half mile in 54 54Skeets Skeets Quarter mile in 28 cantering canteringStar Star Berta Half mile in 54 54Veneta Veneta Strotne Half mile in O A AYankcr Yankcr Threequarters in 124 124Seven Seven of the horses R F Carman has been racing at Lexington have arrived at the Downs They are Sir Alvescot M Cambon Figola Colonel Ashmeade Compton Dynamite and Jessup Burn He has only two horses now at Lexington Merry Lad and Eliza ¬ beth Harwood and they will be shipped to the Downs Friday morning Two stables arrived at the Downs from Lexington this morning they being the strings of 0 C Van Meter and F D Weir In the Van Meter string were the twoyearolds Cream General BlueBeard Lead Lightly and Nobby the latter being the stables only winner at Lexington Mr Weir lias a useful band of selling platers and the twoyear old Miss Edith which Is eligible to both the Juve ¬ nile stringThe and Debutante Stakes is also In his string The noted sprinter Al Muller owned by J R Wainwright Is sick at the Downs with an attack of pneumonia Veterinarian Talbot is much concerned over the geldings condition but thinks he will be able to pull through Al Muller is low in flesh and even if he lives through his present attack he will do no racing in the near future Grover Baker was an arrival today at the Downs but later loft for Lexington to bring back his noted longdistanco mare First Peep which lias not been raced since last fall and which he has been In ¬ formed is doing well wellT T C McDowell moved today to the Downs the twelve horses he has had quartered at Douglas Park since March MarchThe The lightweight jockey C Miller has arrived here He is In the employ of A F Dayton who also holds the contract on the good rider C Peak Mr Dayton has only two horses in training here but he is talking about shipping soon from the winter ranch at Itcno Nevada some stock of his own raising He has a trio of threeyearold fillies at the ranch which have never been trained they l eing by the noted horse Key del Sierras and out of the good race mares Soufricre Serenity and Can toon He recently lost a twoyearold by Rey del Sierras Soufriero and lias only one twoyearold filly but all three marcs now have yearlings at the ranch M Dayton bad the misfortune to lose his great mare Neva Lee Sho was out down in a race at Oakland Cal and though able to get to the ranch never lived to drop her colt One of the great races shi ran was in thq Twin City Handicap that year worth 14055 in1 which she was Just beaten by the lightweighted Fine Cloth Miller rode a few races at Charleston last winter merely to get in form for the Kentucky circuit racing He can ride as light as ninetyeight pounds One of the Dayton horses he now has here Ragman pulled up soro in bis work today todayTod Tod Cella racing partner of Lon Johnson who has a string of horses at the Downs wired today from St Louis that he would arrive here on Friday with quite a party of St Louis turfmen who will come as his guests to see the running of the Ken ¬ tucky Derby
