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SAVING DONERAIL FOR LATONIA DERBY Hayes Has Hopes of Duplicating His Ken ¬ tucky Derby Success with the Colt Ixiuisville Ky May 28 T P Hayes is train lug his Kentucky Derby winner Donerail with every care in anticipation of winning the Latonia Derby with this son of McGco The Latonia Derby will be run two weeks from the coming Saturday being programmed for June 1 J The twentyfour days of racing at Latonia will open on Monday June and tho opening day feature is to be the Inaugural Hand cap oneinile and a sixteenth with fiftyseven nomi ¬ nations nationsIf If Donerail is successful In winning the Latonia Derby h will duplicate the performance of such threeyearolds as Leonatus Kingman Ilalma lien Brush Lieut Gibson Elwood and Sir Huon all of which famous performers won both the Kentucky and Latonia Derbys DerbysDonerail Donerail will have to pick up a five Kmnd penalty In the Latonia Derby and run a mile and a half This will make his weight 127 pounds Still Sir Ilium Ulwoofl Ornament and Ilalma all succeeded n parrying this weight to victory in the Iatonia Derby and Kingman won tlu event with 12S pounds up At a glance it appears like i hard task for Donerail to pick np ten pounds on his Kentucky Derby performance but his recent work at Douglas Park shows thut he is an improving colt coltGreat Great Britain George M Ilendries Latonia Derby cindidate is training well at Douglas Park for JpJin Wallers and he Is strongly fancied by many good judges on the strength of his late twoyear old racing at Latonia last fall He Is a sou of The Commoner and thus of the blood of Hanover which has proven so iwtent this spring both Done rail the Kentucky Derby winner and Cream the Kentucky Oaks victress being out of mares by that wonderful sire sireWeber Weber Ward may be able to get Solar Star Jo the post in the Latonia race though trainer Ward announced some time ago that he would not make an effort to fit the colt to run a mile and a half so early after his recent sickness lie has been going along rapidly In training but his starting will depend on what kind of showing lie makes in a preliminary race at Douglas Park during the final week of the meeting now on there thereGreat Great Britain Solar Star and A L Astes Ten Point will all carry 112 pounds in thi Latonia Derby race as will Foundation Other eligible in training for the rail are Jimmie Gill Merlin Prince Hermls McCorkle Leochares Gowell and Christmas Star With fOllOO added it will be the richest Derby run in America this year yearThe The next stake event down for decision at Douglas Park is the Memorial Handicap with 2000 added at six furlongs which will be run on Friday Deco ¬ ration Day There are sixtyeight nominations and the field will embrace the best of the sprinters now in training here hereDr Dr C Cann has tired for W G Yanke his two yearold winner Ooma and that filly will be turned out for a brief season and may not again be raced until fall There is nothing serious tho matter with her legs hut the treatment is to prevent the develop ¬ ment of anything along that line lineW W II Karrick took all of his string which will race at Belmont Park in the name of the Oneck Stable to the east yesterday The great filly Sprite leaves Kentucky with an unbeaten record this season and if she races in the same form on the New York tracks as she did at Lexington and Churchill Downs she will not soon be defeated defeatedTrainer Trainer Tandy Hughes has a hardhick story to tell of Polls the winner of the lirst Derby at Jack ¬ sonville and the last horse to race in the colors of the once prominent turfman U L Thomas Hughes has been training Polls for nearly a year to get him up to a good race and he believed when he started him at the Downs a few days ago that the son of Voter would win easily lie was amazed to see Polls drop out of con tent ion early in the race When the horse was returned to the stable it was found that he had injured a foot severely and while it will not prevent him from racing at some future day trainer Hughes now has the task of doing all over again what he has been doing with this per ¬ former for nearly twelve months When Polls was in Henry MiDaniels stable he was at one time rated as one of the best handicap horses His perform ¬ ances however were best in the winter time Me Daniel could never get him to race well in warm
