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HAAVTHOM HELD PRICELESS BUSCHEMEYER WILL NOT CONSIDER SELLING OF KENTUCKY DERBY FAVORITE Refuted an Offer of 525000 for Hastings White WhiteThorn Thorn Gelding Last Fall and Recently Declined to Name a Figure for Him Louisville Ky April 3 Although the running nf the thirtyninth Kentucky Derby the only turf yyciit In America now attracting more than local interest will not be decided over the Churcliill Downs course until the afternoon of May 10 Haw ¬ thorn the favorite for the race is according to his owner Charles F Busehemeycr of this city ready to go to the post Turfmen capable of judging the romlition of a thoroughbred agree that within the recollection of those identified witli the turf in the past thirty years none van recall an instance paral ¬ leling tlie case of Hawthorn that is cite a Ken ¬ tucky Derby candidate that was lit to respond to the call of the bugle more than a mouth in advance of Hie day ofjtits running Some of them argue that this forward condition imperils Hawthorns chances inasmuch as it will be dillicult to keep this highly tensloued racer on edge Neither the owner of Hawthorn nor trainer Trcvey share this view viewThe The story of Hawthorns condition the process employed in his training the characteristics of this sensational twoyearold of III I and the reasons as ¬ signed by his owner for thinking the horse will wlnMhe Derby are replete with romantic interest interestHawthorn Hawthorn is an ideal racer businesslike and no bedys pet He is high strung but devoid of vicious ness Even his trainer is constantly given to under ¬ stand that Hawthorn has no time for horse talk sind laying on of the hands Owner Buschemcyer succeeds in this respect in a limited sense through tliii medium of bribery Nearly every day he pays Hawthorii a visit and bis prize racer acts like a gentleman only when lie sees a hand stretched forth containing lumps of sugar The supply exhausted Hawthorn shakes his jiead thrusts back one hind leg and the reception is over No one other than ownjr Buscliemeyer lias tempted Hawthorn with dainties of any kind Upon the approach of strang vrn tliis slashing son of Hastings casts a look not overly friendly lets fly his heels and otherwise indicates that there are some equine aristocrats which privacyHawthoru insist upon privacy Hawthoru has never been known to lie down in Hie day time Traintfr Trcvey says the horse has evidently discovered tut darkness is the time in which to rest and sleep No later than seven oclock llmls llHwthoru stretched full length on a bed of Htriny lie is up early trying to split the planks in his stall with his hoof Soon he gets bis speci ¬ ally prepared breakfast after which lie is led to tin track trackHe He never varies from a trait developed when he was first placed in training With a stable boy on Ills back he looks all about the course then sud iltnly starts to run After a few strides he is pulled to a canter At his gait he circles the track three tliues This has been his daily exercise rain or shine since last October In the meantime his muscles have become hardened to a remarkable de ¬ gree he has picked up in flesh 200 pounds since his last race and he has grown in hcighth one inch and il quarter His height is now 15 hands 2V inches and bis weight is 1100 pounds making him one of the largest race horses in training Hawthorn will make ills Derby debut wearing a new coat of Iieau tifnl seal brown Through the shedding process which he is now undergoing lie is discarding the color which caused many to describe him as the black demon demonOwner Owner Biischcmeycr in order to ascertain whether or not Hawthorn retained his dazzling speed of 1JI12 recently suggested to trainer Trevey that the KK5 pound stable rider let tho horse go along a mile without iKing restrained After Hawthorn had gone a quarter In 22 the buy was signalled to slow down The mile was run In lij with Hawthorn hard held Right after this his owner placed an outof town commission of 00 and if Hawthorn wins the Derby the net profit on this investment will be SlGOO Helios second choice for the Derby is the par tlchlar target of owner Bnsehemeyer is shooting at There is a score to settle between these horses Be ¬ fore the issue is decided a goodsized wad will be wagered if those on the Helios end are willing U is virtually a certainty that Hawthorn will lie sent to meet Helios in the Blue Grass Stakes at Lexing ¬ ton preceding the Derby so eager is owner Bnschc nnver tn determine the question of supremacy It supremacyIt is the intention to secure the services of jockey Loftus for Hawthorn in the Derby No definite en ¬ gagement has been made however The desire up ¬ permost In the mind of owner Biischemeyer is to win the big race For this reason lie paid 10000 for Hawthorn Whoii he purchased the horse he thought he could gain the honor now lie feels cer ¬ tain of it Puzzled over the rumor that Hawthorn hud gone lame owner Buschemeyer said saidTho Tho horse has never taken a lame step Tiie only way I can sicconnt for the rciwrt is that one day I noticed the horse had a sore mouth 1 sent for Dr llarthill and when lie came in an automo ¬ bile some one imagined Hawthorn had gone wrong So trivial was the ailment tliat Trevey did not pay any attention to it itNo No Hawthorn Ls not for sale Tho day he beat beatalign align Hill at Latonia I ws offered S2 S2i000 i000 for forhim him You know that at Latonia that day my Iwirse Iwirsegave gave every starter in the race from thirty to forty fortypounds pounds Mr Magimi the banditupper remarked to tome me that never IteTore had he asked a twoyearold twoyearoldto to make such concessions Hawthorn finished in front by a length the distance being threequarters of ofa a mile mileThe The other day I was asked by a prominent man to name Hawthorns price I refused Tlie 2000 offer was alluring lint to my way of thinking the honor of winning the Kentucky Derby outweighs any financial consideration considerationAside Aside from Hawthorn the Busclienieyer stable consists of Hudolfo and Blue Jay 1 oth of which won their last start last fall at Latonia Rudolf o was purchased by Mr Kiischcmeycr after he won the Liitoitia Oup race of two ami a quarter miles in the colors of II II Kminons last fall in which race lie defeated High Private Star Charter Colonel IloIIoway and others othersNone None of John W Schorrs horses now quartered at Douglas Park will race before tin coming meeting jit Churchill Downs Trainer John F Schorr has decided not to shin any of them try Ixxlngton lie had intended sending the chestnut colt by Peep oDay Avon II to J xington to run in the Brced rs Futurity but this youngster has lately not done well in training and MI Schorr has stricken him out of that event All of the Schorr racers are doing well except this colt His Kentucky Derby candi ¬ date Leochares is training satisfactorily and i few days ago worked six furlongs in 118 impressively This threeyearold however does not impress good judges as liiing much of a Derby possibility lie is unusually small and apparently lias grown little from his two to liis threeyearold form He un ¬ questionably lias speed and having run a mile as a twoyearold probably would be able to stay 1ml it I questionable If he has size enough fo go the route 1tli Derby weight tip Froglcgs could not look heller and If appearances count for anything Is sure tp be one of the greatest fouryearolds In training this season and a menace to all other can ¬ didates for the 10404 Kentucky Handicap to be run during the coming spring meeting at Douglas Park ParkCharley Charley Howe has booked his noted broodmare Hardly by imported Candlemas to Celt tills season He now has the mare at Lexington where she will shortly foal to Bannockburn Hardly Is tlie mare that Eugene Leigh once predicted that with any ¬ thing like a fair chance in tlie stud would surely produce a Derby winner Tlie mare has so far had much ill fortune with her foals in Missouri so Howe has determined to give her a trial in Ken ¬ tucky tuckyJ J C OConnell a local contractor Is an addition to tlie list of owners lie has in training at Chnrchill Downs a pair of twoyearolds that he purchased recently from Jaines MaeManus One is a colt by Bearcatcher and the other a son of Tony Faust by Sain OConnell has had some turf experience having been for a while tlie racing partner of Tiieo Abadle but these are tlie first two horses he lias essayed to train on his own ac ¬ count countStalls Stalls are being bedded down at the Downs and Douglas Park for the stables of W F Schulte John E Madden and James S Everman whose strings are expected to arrive here from Charleston within the next twentyfour hours hoursThere There is a maiden threeyearold in Catesby Woodfords stable of which trainer Wood Diekerson expects good things The gelding was bred by the estate of Walter S Payne of Ixxington and was purchased by J H Heed from Dan Payne for a trifling sum He is by M irtu Santa out of Maria Louise by Longlllght and what early training Inr and a twoyearold was behind the a harrow Heed saw tlie horse on a visit to Maplewood Farm and taking a fancy to him bought him He lins shown since he became a member of a racing stable that be can run and now has tbi honor of being the working companion of this strings promising Oaks candidate Christmas Slar The rallblrds are now watching the plow gelding as closely as they are noting Christmas Stars work So far the daiisfhfor of Star Shoot apparently has little on the gelding when he is in his best running mood
