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CONFIDENCE IS UNSHAKEN LOUISVILLE TRAINERS STAND BY HAWTHORN AFTER OTHER DERBY CANDIDATES WORK Delegation Visits Lexington and Views Trials of ofHelios Helios and Foundation Without Changing Opinion Opinionas as to Outcome of Coming Contest Louisville Ky April 15 A number of local trainers liave returned from Lexington after looking over the candidates in training there that are elig ¬ ible to race in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill liiwns on Saturday Mar 10 They were fortunate hi Seeing Helios and Foundation the Lexington hopes for the race work a mile as the track there was in fairly good condition Helios went the dis ¬ tance hi 144 while Foundation went a mile two fifths of a second faster Of the two horses the local experts cein to prefer Foundation so far as appearance goes as Helios so they say seemed to be tr bit drawn This is however about as he blriked in one or two of his good races last season Mill it may be that he will race as well in this condition as an ordinary horse does when seemingly more robust The local contingency however un ¬ hesitatingly expressed the opinion that they preferred Hawthorn to either of the Lexington threeyearolds and their visit was fruitless insofar as affecting their opinion that C F Buschemeyers crack geld ing will be the next Kentucky Derby winner winnerHawthorn Hawthorn day in and day out at the Downs be ¬ comes even a greater favorite for this event He Is such a gixwl doer and the fact that he will only extend himself fully when he has something to run against adds still deeper to the impression that he will not only go the Derby route but that he will probably run the distance faster than any horse heretofore has in winning ibis classic event He works In spots running an eighth and loafing an eighth and this is a nre sign of a good stayer indicating as it does that bekeeps himself within hounds and always has something left leftTill Till colored man who rides him in work is named Uesse Bnllard and one season he rode several good riir w1iHe littlife employ of G M1 tytriiuv rHe MIOII got too heavy to ride ht a moderate scale of weights and has since devoted his time to exercising horses There is no better rider In this line at the Downs He weighs close to 130 pounds but the big gelding shoulders his colored rider in his trials as if ho was a featherweight It Is likely that before the Derby is run and the great son of Hastings is given his final trial trainer Trevey will send him the Derby route under the guidance of jockey Loft us who can ride him at his exact Derby weight which will be 114 pounds If Trevev does conclude to set Hawthorn down under such a jockey n rid ridwith with track conditions good it is confidently be ¬ lieved by horsemen here that Hawthorn will throw in the shade any Derby trial ever worked on this track threeyearoldG by any threeyearold G W Inngdons Kentucky Derby candidate His Majesty is a blockilybnilt colt and stands a shade ovpr 15 hands 2 Inches high To some horsemen he would appear to be a fine model foK a three yearold but a good English jiidge would call the son of Ogden a bit lieefy He is apparently quite high In tiesh but with hard training he may he Britten ready to run in the rich stake He is surely a remarkably bred colt as his sire and the sire of his dam and his granddam arc all FUtnrlty winners winnersThe The Kentucky Handicap to which the Douglas Park Jockey Club has so liberally added 10000 and which is set for the opening day of the meeting at that track on Monday May 20 continues to arouse well nigh as much interest as Churchill Downs DerbyDoubtless big event the Kentucky Derby Doubtless in addition to all the older stars of the turf including the three great foitryearolds The Manager Froglegs and Buckhorn all the stars of the Derby will face the barrier in this rich event which will be one of the richest races run on the American turf during 113 The distance of this vent is the same as the Kentucky Derby one mile and a quarter and it may be that with a good track all Kentucky records for this distance will be low ¬ ered ly the winner winnerEverything Everything Is shaping up well for successful rac ¬ ing at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park this spring Those iwo meetings will undoubtedly be tlie greatest ever given in Kentucky and will add materially to Hie turf history of this state which owes miieir of its distinction to its thoroughbred running horses Beginning with the 10th of May Louisville will be to America what Epsom Downs and Ascot are to England Though muddy conditions still prevailed at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park yesterday at the former plant there was a hard bottom to the course and as a result horses worked surprisingly well goingHawthorn through the wet going Hawthorn was only cantered around the paths of the grounds and was not taken on the track at ill by trainer Trevey It is likely he will do little more track work Iwfore the middle of the week owing to his superb condition A slight let ¬ up will do him no harm Prince Herinis another Derby candidate worked a half In 50 and Baron di Kalb which is also among the eligible for the big race went a half in 51 The Kentucky Oaks candidate Christmas Star in Catesby AVoodfords stable cantered six furlongs in 124 and was ac ¬ companied in her work bv the brother to Roselteii Peter Grimm The fastest twoyearold work of the day was by the unbeaten colt Old Itosebnd lie did an easy half In 51 after running the first quarter In 24 The Kentucky Oaks candidate Sempritc went a half in 51 Sleeth cantered five olghths in 112 and Billy Holder another three yearold went threequarters in 1 25 Other horses timed by the dockers were all twoyearolds they being J P Maylow which breezed threeeighths hi 7 running the lirst quarter in 24 Little Nephew a half in tSS Meshach threeeighths in 7 and Harry I a Kentucky Futurity candidate in George J Longs stable a half in Ills Majesty from the stable of G AV langdon was today sent a rating mile in 140 Leoohares from the stable of J W Schorr worked a mile In a shade under 150 There was little work at either Douglas Park or Churchill Downs as train ¬ ers were holding off for fast going that is expected tomorrow or next day dayThe The Derby favorite Hawthorn was asked to go fhree furlongs lie covered the distance in 7 going the last eighth In 12f and the quarter in Jockey Loftus was today engaged by C F Itnsche imv r to ride Hawthorn in the Bine Grass Stakes lo be run at Lexington on Saturday May 3 Lof 1ns will also ride Hawthorn in the Kentucky Derby on Aluy 10 Ixftns Is the only rider who had more than diii mount on Hawthorn last ceawm and who never lost a race with this son of Hastings Haw ¬ thorn will bo shipped by trainer AV S Trevey to Lexington during the last of this week or early next week On May 4 he will be returned to Churchill Downs DownsO O A Diunchi hi his criticism of the throeyear throeyearold old named to go in tlie Derby and also In the Bine theBine Grass Stakes says that if any threeyearold Continued on second page CONFIDENCE IS UNSHAKEN Continued from firsOpage defeats Hawthorn tills spring lie will begin to look around birdThe for i white black bird The fastest mile today at the Downs was scored by Any Port F 1 Weirs Kentucky Handicap eligible Ho worked the distance in l471f run ¬ ning the first threequarters iu l 2Vr Only two youngsters worked a half at the Downs as fast as 5o they being K 1C Wainwrights twoyearolJ colt High Class and Ivan Gardner GardnerE E U Kradley returned from Chicago today and will remain at the Downs until the last of the Week to see his big string of horses worked Mr Itradley will MondayDan send fourteen hordes to Lexington next Monday Dan Lchau has received word from Thomas Col ¬ lins that Bourbon Beau has again pone wrong and that he seesno hope of ever again racing that great horse Bourbon Beau was eligible to the Clark Handicap and the 10000 Kentucky Handicap He will be retired to the stud studC C K Ellison of Chicago was at the Downs today looking over the various cracks in the stables quar ¬ tered there Mr Ellison owns some horses In part ¬ nership with John MeLaughlin that are quartered at Lexington in the stable of Abe Akers Among the youngsters they own is the much talked of Kentucky Futurity candidate John Guild Mr Ellison favors Hawthorn for the Kentucky Derby and regards htm as tho champion threeyearold of the season seasonAV AV J Weber has arrived from Texas to see his two colts Meshach and Abodnego work They arc here in the stable of F K Otis These youngsters will be shipiKMl to Lexington next week weekG G Kstep who comes from Kansas has two six yearold horses at tho Downs which are attracting some attention They are good looking animals and apparently possess speed One is Jack Coombs which started once as a twoyearold And the other is a son of Watercress A man in Kansas purchased these two horses from J B Haggin with the idea of developing them for saddle pur ¬ poses He has1 however discovered that with age they both have developed a desire to run and so he put them in trainer Estjps hands The Water ¬ cress gelding is a sightly specimen of the thor ¬ oughbred James 1C Kverman has again taken up Stone Street the Kentucky Derby winner of 190S He expects to get some effective racing out of this1 veteran this season Stone Street raced little last season but the year before he was a highclass selling plater and ran some sparkling races in Kvcrnmns hands With the distance to his liking and a track to suit him lie is always a hard plater to beat Stone Street and Wintergrceu are the only Kentucky Derby winners in training iu Kentucky Last years win ¬ ner AVorth as well as Doimii which won the event in 1910 are both dead while Meridian the Derby winner of 1011 is a member of It F Carmans stable In the east eastHarry Harry L George J Longs crack twoyearold appears to have picked up weight In training trainingM M Wilson shipped here today from Oklahoma City two threeyearolds Miss Clark and Darby both of which are by the wellknown sire Modred They are stabled at the Downs The men coming with them said that A C McCafferty who Is now at Oklahoma City with bis stable would likely siiip here also within the next few days Mr McCafferty has in his string the wellknown performers Domin ¬ ica Suffragist and Frazzle all of which were good winners at Juarez last winter winterTrainer Trainer Cliff llammou spent Sunday at Idle Hour Farm and he brought back news of four great foals having been dropped at that place within the last few days They are all by that noted sire Sain One is a bay colt out of the famous Love Not which ran third to Novelty and Bashti In the last Coney Island Jockey Club Futurity Another Is a brown colt out of the great race mare Dishabille another a black filly out of Bandalla and the other a bay colt out of Wayward Lass the dam of Bachelor Girl This Is the mares first surviving colt her other produce that have raced being flllies four in number all of which are winners Love Not and Wayward Lass will both be mated this season with Cunard while Bandalla will be mated with Ulti mus and Dishabille with Trap Uock UockSuperintendent Superintendent Frank Kcegan of the Juarez and Churchill Downs tracks is out again after an illness which confined him to the house for about a week He will now busy himself getting Jhe track at the Downs in recordbreaking condition conditionDoerhoefer Doerhoefer it Wests noted nice mare Melisande which was crippled iu a race and retired to the stud last season lias proved not to be in foal to Jim Gaffney the horse with which she was mated last spring Her owners have booked her this sea ¬ son to J K Maddens great liorse Ballot BallotBunch Bunch of Keys and the twoyearold iu the stable of G W Langdon which reached here from G raves en tl a bit sick have recovered and will be able to Work in a few days Of the live twoyearolds that Langdou brought here two are by Salvation the sire of Jim Basey and other good western winners while the others are a colt by Celt Fairy Sprite a colt by Woolsthorpe and a illy that Is a sister to the Kentucky Oaks candidate Christmas Star They are all good looking youngsters and showed up well as yearlings The Celt colt wlilch Langdon bought privately from J K Madden was purchaser at the sale of the Keene yearlings last fall by Mr Madden for 2SOf Briar Path Langdons good lilly has passed through a severe sickness the pasl winter and is now rounding to In good shape Tills daughter of Marta Santa is not engaged in either the Ashland or Kentucky Oaks OaksJohn John Lowe has in his stable the westernbret horse Palo Alto which he is attempting to train again The horse could not look better and bis less appear to IHJ sound Palo Alto has not raced since the Oakland track was closed in 1911 1911W W II Karrick who has tho strimrs of 11 K Knapp and F U and Thomas Hitchcock will it Is understood bring eighteen horses to race at Church ¬ ill Downs and Douglas Park this summer Fourteen of them are twoyearolds His oMer horses are the noted Sprite and the threeyearolds Centurion Yankee Notions and Strenuous Tho lastnamei two arc eligible for the Kentucky Derby George DerbyGeorge J Longs great fouryearold Free Lance was brought in from Bashford Manor Farm to his quarters trainer Pete Coynes stable at Church ¬ ill Downs yesterday The Latonia Derby winner of 1912 lias been running out on the farm all winter and appears to be in a robust liardy condition No effort will be made to train him for racing befor fall but trainer Coyne will begin giving him slow exercise within the next few days Exi orts agree that there Is no doubt the son of Alvescot will again stand training If he meets with no mishaps wlien autumn rolls around he will make a bid in the Long colors for the fourmile Kentucky Kiidurance Stakes of lOi lOiJockey Jockey J Deavenport Is here with Ills father J II Deavonport whose string is being trained by Harry Ilerdel and is busying himself exercising Irish Gentleman in his morning work Dcavenpori has grown too heavy to ride except on special oc ¬ casions and lias about made up his mind tn devote his attention to training Besides Irish Gentleman this string only 1ms at present the wellknown per ¬ former Kio Brazos and a twoyearold brother to that westernbred horse which Is named Jack Crowders The latter Deavenport purchased when he secured Itlo Brazos at Juarez a few weeks ago Irish Gentleman is training iu grand form this spring and he will make a bid for the 10000 Ken ¬ tucky Handicap which will be run on the opening day of the coming Douglas Park spring meeting Monday May 20
