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KENTUCKY HANDICAP HORSES DOING WELL Louisville Ky May 21 Foundation C W Mc ICcnnas crack threeyearold worked a mile and a quarter at Churchill Downs yesterday 111 preparation for his engagement in the 15000 Kentucky Handi ¬ cap to be decided on the opening day of the twelve days spring meeting at Douglas Park on Monday May 2li The son of Nasturtium went the distance hard held In 211 running the first half in 51 and tho mile in 114 Trainer Will McDaniel will now rest Foundation until Saturday when he will give him a sharp workout which in his opinion will be sntliciont to enable the colt to make a creditable showing over the mile and a quarter route In the big race next Monday MondayAll All the other prominent candidates regarded as nearly certain starters in the big race are doing as well as their trainers could ask These include the Kentucky Derby winner Dimerail A L Astes Ten Point which ran seond in that event 1 T Weavers Gowoll which ran third ns well as Yan ¬ kee Notions another Derby starter which has since shown good form at the Downs Weaver started nvell yesterday in tin Churchill Downs Handicap to keep her in trim for her Kentucky Oaks engage ¬ ment of next Saturday and her prospective start in the Kentucky Handicap The filly is a glutton for work All the older horses in the big nice that are certain starters are doing as well as they possibly could these including ISuckhorn Froglegs Kudolfo Irish Oontlcman Flora Fina Adams Express Kol ling Stone and Sbnada The latter ran a rather impressive race behind Caugh Hill and Gowell at six furlongs at the Downs Monday and he now has some following for the Kentucky Handicap When this colt was a twoyearold and trained by Peter Wimmer he was regarded as a promising prospect and was one of the winter choices for the Kentucky Derby of 1912 He met with bad training luck as i threeyearold but is now doing better than lie lias since he was a youngster in trainer Wimmers eare It is reported that the latter noted turfman has had an otter to train for a prominent New York turfman tills summer and as he has been misled from the Downs during the last few days it is sup ¬ posed he has closed the deal It is understood that The eastern turfman in question is John Sanford of the llurricana Stork Farm at Amsterdam N Y YT T K Madden still owns Miss Granvillo tho dam of Little Nephew and has a yearling filly and a suckling colt out of her Poth are by the Futurity winner Ogdon OgdonW W C Clancy will ship his stable to Toronto nt orce He will take along his entire string which consists of Gommoll Fern L Little Jane Garter Kenneth Hartena Ialgol and Cosgrove Others who will ship at tho same time to Canada are E J OConnell and Moore Johnson OCounell has a couple of maiden twoyearolds 11 C Hallenbeck was somewhat put out according to trainer Frank Taylor over the announcement that W J Treacy acting for the Kentucky Sales oinpany had purchased from August liclmont at lirivate sale the fifteen yearlings that were on the market Messrs Ilallenbeck and Taylor visited the jiurscrv Farm last Sunday and secured a price on Ibis band of youngsters As Taylor understood it the deal was to have liecn settled over the phone n Monday from this city When he called up he was informed that the price had been raised on the collection and the next thing lie beard was that Treacy had secured tho horses Taylor has about ciincliidcd to drop the yearling venture and what horses arc added to the Hallenbeck stable In tho nciir future probably will be performers that have shown their ability to race in winning form formManager Manager John Ilaehmoister has made arrangements with the L N H It to run a special train from Lexington next Monday morning to handle the crowd coming from there to see the running of the 15000 Kentucky Handicap at Douglas Park This train will leave Lexington at S oclock a m and will stop only at Midway Frankfort and Shelbyville It will have two Pullman cars attached and will re ¬ turn to Lexington at 730 oclock Monday evening Manager Haclimeister was assured by many promi ¬ nent turfmen at Lexington that if he could make such an arrangement with any railroad it would be sure to bring an enormous crowd here from the Blue Grass region to witness tho running of the richest stake of the searon searonJ J II Wainwright had about made up his mind to sell his twoyearold High Class for a modest price a few days ago but after he had raced him a sec ¬ ond time at the Downs his ideas went up on the son of Star Shoot and La Pucelle Trainer Al Luzader sized up the colt on his first showing as a sluggish youngster and lie told jockey ISuxton who rode him in his last race to drive him from the rise of the barrier with the result that the colt closed an enormous gap He now believes that with a little more racing High Class will pay bis way wayMajor Major T C McDowell made no entries for the Saratoga Stakes He seems to think the twoyear olds be has in training are of the sort that will do better next year as threeyearolds and he will race most of them but little until fall Then again the sickness of his great colt The Manager caused him to change his plans in regard to racing in the east tills year He will attend the Saratoga meeting but will take no horses
