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SPfilTE SHOWS HIGH SPEED 1CNAPP FILLY WINS EACE AFTER BEING ALMOST LEFT AT THE POST Credited With Running Middle ThreesEighths of ofRace Race in Sensational Time of 34 Seconds Princess Callaways Handicap Louisville Ky Miy 14 Princess Callaway ae rountcd for todays feature race at Churchill Downs i 1 KK handicap at olio mile and a sixteenth Strenuous Manager Mack ami Rolling Stone follow ¬ ing in a close group The winners margin was a slight one but she was lunch the best for she was tinpiviiareil at lie break got the worst of the start and was furOctl to race at top speed to got into contention When fully straightened out on the baekstrctch she kept the others close company and disposed of Strenuous the pacemaker during the titiitl furlong furlongII II K Kuapps groat lilly Sprite earned another bracket by a great erforinance in the sprint allow ¬ ance race in which some of the bust of the western short distance racers engaged Her victory carried added merit from the fact that she was a sufferer at the start through her own stubbornness and bv Interference from Helen Barbec when the latter wheeled The mishap caused her to be almost left and she appeared a forlorn hope in the tirst furlong She showed a marvellous burst of speed during the middle iiarter and after going around the others wore down Caugh Hill the leader on the stretch turn and thereafter was hard held heldJoliu Joliu W Schorr took his dally purse when his jjooil colt Vandergrift came right back with another meritorious performance and beat Brigs Brother for the purse in the lifth race K It Bradlcys Black Toiicy the lirst of Peter Pans get to start this sea ¬ son In these parts spreadcagled his opposition in the second race consisting of eleven other youngsters A 15 Sprecklos Sosius taking second pIace with the favorite Francis unplaced Spindle furnished the days upset by leading all the way in the final race and winning handily over Bonnie Eloise and Just Red Redf f Woirtbirvcoudltioiis thi afternoon wero ideal and the attendance was big The speculation was a trille less than yesterday which was of record breaking proK rtious for aji olf day Jockey dayJockey IxiJtus was forced to cancel his riding en ragements during the afternoon because of illness resulting from excessive reducing reducingII II C IlalUiibock arrived today from the east and witnessed the racing A majority of his horses have been on the ailing list but are now rounding into shape shapeWeights Weights for the Clark Handicap to be run next Saturday were announced this morning by Secre ¬ tary Lyman II Davis John W Schorrs Froglegs Is given the ost of honor with an assignment of 125 Ituckhorn High Private and Adams Express get 122 Ten Point the beaten Derby favorite is regarded highly for lie is assigned 110 and Kudolfo has 111 Others that are likely starters for this rich stake include Joe Morris 107 Flora Fina 105 Irish Gentleman 10 and Any Port 10 10John John W Schorr decided this afternoon to divide his extensive stable sending one division to Toronto on Sunday next for the racing at Woodbine Frog legs will be left here with the consignment thit John F Schorr will train and lie a starter In the rich Kentucky Handicap to be run on the opening day at Douglas Park Star Charter has gone amiss and will be turned out at oni of the nearby farms until fall fallHorsemen Horsemen who witnessed Old Rosebuds trial this morning wore much impressed when that youngster worked a half mile in 47 f in handy fashion fashionFoundation Foundation breezed a quarter through the slretcii this morning in twentyfour seconds lighting hard for his head He seems to have fully recovered from the slight foot ailment lie is reported to have sulTcred just before his Derby start startJohn John Ilachineister returned this morning from La tonia where he made a Hying visit He reports that the improvements at that track will be finished next week weekK K K Bradleys Beach Comber by Rock Sand Kairv Slipper which brought 14001 at the Kcone sale last fall is said to be coming to hand slowly and will not he raced until the Saratoga meeting meetingW W F Schulte was in receipt of a letter today from F J Pons informing him that nearly all the horses in ho Pons establishment are on the ailing list and will not be starters again for some time Tile crank threeyearold Judge Wright has been fired and will not race until fall fallSeveral Several owners who timed Sprite say she ran the middle throoeighths in todays race in A Iliiinchi has sold the threeyearold Mac ilonough half brother to Presumption to A P Humphrey Jr The horse will likely be used as a hunter hunterTrainer Trainer AI Luzador gave J R Waimvrights famous old griding High Private a workout iff thrcoUartors in 122 on Monday High Private is a horse that is never worked fast by his trainer but is given much siov cantering He showed no signs of soreness when pulled up Luzadcr will breeze him again on Thursday and if lie comes out of that work satisfactorily he may decide to start him in the Clark Handicap next Saturday at the Downs If he docs not send him to the post in that race he will run him in an overnight handi ¬ cap next week and he figures now that he will surclv start in the Kentucky Handicap 10000 added on the opening day of the Douglas Park meeting Monday May 20 20Trainer Trainer French Brooks brought six horses here owned by Woodford Clay Two others were turned out at Lexington Those he brought here are Rracas Magnet Roamcr Ovation Ocean Blue and the unnamed twoyearold bay lilly by Knight Er rant Outcome Mr Clay has a yearling sister to his famous mare Ocean Bound In trainer Brooks opinion she is a lilly as promising as was Ocean Bound as a yearling This is the last foal of Flying Ship as she was destroyed with her suck ¬ ling colt In the recent lire at Kingston Farm near Lexington when many of the late J R Kecuos noted mares were burned burnedFoundation Foundation is not in the Clark Handicap and neither is Doneraii Trainer McDaniel expects to run Foiinlatioii in some handicap or allowances race next wool The colt came out of his Derby race In line condition conditionT T C McDowell has his great colt The Manager Insured with the Lloyds of London for 10500 Tills does not nearly cover what Mr McDowell thinks his noted fouryearold is worth and hence lie Is much pleased to know that the son of Voter is gradually getting well He has heard from Lex ¬ ington thnt he need not worry at all about The Manager as lie i doing as well as he could gnder tho circumstances r rSfaltie Sfaltie Ziiiiiuor has the noted sprinter Caugli Hill Ing well again and hopes to be able to race him fiiipiently at tho Downs as well as during the Doug ¬ las Park spring meeting The big sprinter shows no effects of ills recent slight attack of sickness sicknessJookev Jookev y KOITHIT has recovered his health but nt present weighs 12 pounds lie thinks that he wiil Continued on second page SPRITE SHOWS HIGH SPEED Continued from first page be able to do some riding during the closing week of racing at tlie Downs DownsJ J W Fuller tlie Texas turfman will have no horses racing in Kentucky this spring The horses he raced at Juarez last winter have been turned out at his ranch in Texas He may lie in Kentucky next fall with a few horses but the bulk of his stable will not race until the next winter meeting of the Jockey Club Juarez JuarezCapt Capt J II Rees for years presiding judge at several big tracks and secretary of tlie New Mem ¬ phis Jockey Club in the days of its great pros ¬ perity ig among the visitors for the local meeting He is loud in his praise of the highclass racing n w prevailing at Churchill Downs and says the Derby was as brilliant a contest as be ever saw between threeyearolds on any track lie has only one regret and that is that owing to the deatli of his great friend Capt Sam Brown he is without his society at a meeting which is furnishing such highclass sportDr sport Dr Williams of the breeding firm of Williams Radford the owners of Adelbert Stud near Hop kiusville Ky was a recent visitor at the Downs lie reiwirts they have twelve yearlings this season eight colts and four fillies the get of Cyclades the only son of the great Cyllene now in the stud in this country One of the liiiies is a halfsister to that good winner In England Columbus All the other youngsters are out of young uiares There will b twelve or fourteen foals by Cyclades dropped at Adilbert Stud this spring Fifteen outside mares were mated to Cyclades this seasor
