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derby CANDIDATES WORK OLD ROSEBUD, FAVORITE FOR BIG CHURCHILL DOWNS RACE. GOES MILE IN 1:50. Ralph, Another Prominent Eligible, Goes Three-Quar-ters in 1:19 Intesest in Approaching Kentucky Meetings Already Keen at Louisville. Louisville, Ky., .March 2S. With Hie arrival here yesterday of the. special horse train from Juarez and the special train from Charleston, due the middle of the coming wecii, lully eight hundred h u-ses will he quartered at the two "local race tracks. niirchill Downs and Douglas Iark, by the end of next week. Improved weather conditions have prevailed hero for tin past few days and Imth courses are in good oiiililii.il. Two of the divides for the Kentucky Derby, Old Kosebud and Ralph, have done some fairly fast work recently. Old Kosejiud has twice hei 11 a mile in 1 :.", wnile Kalph has gone three-quarters in 1:111, with a half as good as ol. Both of these cracks have seemingly wintered re liKirkiilily well and each has spread out and grown aii,:i.iiily. Hodge, which has just arrived from Juarez, shipped well and will he allowed to rest until in xl week before he is asked to do much work ovoi the 1 low us i rack, where he is now quartered. Old Rosebud is slill at Douglas Iark. but trainer 1- D. -ir will transfer him to the Downs within ine next ten days, so that he may net his training ovi r the track on which tin- ureal Derby will he r ii. The stake entries for the coining meeting at Churchill Downs which begins on Saturday, May 9. and runs twelve days to and including Friday, .May 22, have been compiled in liook form by secretary Lyman II. Davis and will be ready for distill ntion during the coming week. The total number of entries for the eight stakes of the New Louisville Jockey Club is .i24. I he are ilivuleo as i Jow-sr Kentucky Derby, 40; Kentucky Oaks, 40; Ciark Handicap. Jr. traiili Kehr .Sialics. :.; ias.i ford Manor Stakes. 94: Debutante Stakes, !I7: and .luvenile Slakes, !Hi. The Kentucky Derby of IM:. received onlv .!2 entries: the Kentuekv Oaks. ::;: F the C ark Handicap. 54: the Frank Fehr Stakes, 7S-and the Tobacco Stakes. Till. the average nun. her of entri.s in I!i:: was ."! as compared with an iiverag of 74 this season. Practically all the best horses in training are Humiliated for these events and the stakes which ,ecci;tly closed at Douglas Iark. including the s.c ond renewal of the Kentucky Ilanilica:. :?10.ooo added, which will be run on the opening day of i"ne Iroiighis Iark meeting of thirteen days, beginning Saturday. May IS!. lready wonderful interest is lieing manifested in the coming racing season here this spring. Many horsemen Mid turfmen of note have already arrived uere. to remain until the spring racing season is over. Two races run here this spring will each carry -0.0i:o in added money, the New Louisville .loi hi y Club giving this sum to the Derby, while the Douglas Iark .jockey Club adds a similar amount to the Kentucky Handicap. In all America this c.imin, no two such valuable events will be run in .iiny one locality within a similar period of time. Iist season similar sums were oliVnil in added money for two rates in Kentucky, but by Iwo asso-i i iliins at different seasons of the year, the Doug-Ins Dark Jockey Club hanging up Jflo.imo for the Kentucky Handicap which was run in the spring and the New Louisville Jockey Club. f.lO.OUn for the Keiilteky Endurance Slakes, run in the fall. Among the prominent stables coining to Ken tucky lor the two big meetings at Iiuisville. which wc.c not here last year, are those of K. F. .Carman anil Thomas Fortune Kyan. The latter lias ap.died for accommodations at the Downs for Ji; horses, while Mr. Carman has asked for stall room for St horses. In the hitters consignment, which is i xpected to arrive here from Charleston liming the coming week, is the Kentucky Derby can niilate. Sin prising. What consitrtes the biggest string of horses J. K. Madden has had in training for several years is now quartered at Churchill Dqwus, there being LO horses In barn It at that course owned by the master of Hamburg Ilaee. They are ehielly two rtsd three ycar-ohls. The Derby candidate of the mug is Vnternicloii. recently purchased from her biviler. T. C. McDowell, who raced her successfully as a two-year-old. An early arrival from Charleston will he trainer G. W. Langdon, in charge of Hie horses of Dr. J. W. Messervy, who has two Derby caulhlatos in his stable. Darn .". at the Downs is now occupied by John Jj.u-os horses, that trainer having about 20 horses iu -lnrge shipped here from Juarez, including II tsvo-year oils, owned by James Duller, one of which Is tue unbeaten lilly. Climber, an eligible to nil the stakes for fillies of her age in Kentucky this season. She racial at Juarez as brilliantly as did Calisse, which came here two seasons ago and won 1kHi the Debutante ami Clipsetta Slakes thai season. Prominent among the arrivals from Juarez now rnir,cred at the local tracks is the string of VelHcf. who has, among others iu his barn, the .flisjithiinl three-year-old lilly. Chrislophine, a Ken tuck Oaks candidate, which holds the American mile record of l:M4,-i. and is one of the most ini proved lllHe in training. Voiller is occupying Docrhoefor and Wests barn at Churchill Downs. Trainer West brought, only hrre horses back from .Juarez -.limniie Jill. Tiliies Nightmare and Gold uf flnhir. The latter is about through with rac ing. having gone hopelessly lame recently, and will he retired lo the stud this spring. Price McKiun is likely to secure Gold of Ophir. She was offered to him at a satisfactory; price and if Miss Dainger-fiehl passes satisfactorily on her desirability for .reeding purposes, he will take her at the figure !, Ojje Kentucky Derby candidate of prominence ha rdnmlv pone wrong and can be left out of calculation for the big race. This is the Texas-bred eolt Orb. which raced brilliantly in track record time at Juarez this season and upon two occasions defeated Hodge. Orb struck himself in his last st.irt n Juarez and the Injury is Millicient to keep the trnuulson of Hanover from .icing until next fail. Twiner Vestal has decided to take Orb to Denver .with he rest of the Clark stable and there rest him until the meeting is over n the Colorado city next June, ire then expects to ship him to one of the local tracks anil endeavor to set him ready for the fall campaign in Kentucky this year. Orb is one of file grandest-looking three-year-olds in training and lit going wrong at Jtftis time was a blow to his as-t lute frainer, who ttgnrded him as the best horse lie ever handled amir believed he had a royal Derby chance. Vriie contract of jockey W. French has been sold -rlv Walter Dan Lehan to M. C. Gmber. owner of Little Nephew. French and Lchan fell out during he winter, chiefly because Lehnn gave another rider lue mount on Sir Cateshy In the Lntonia Cup lust fall, which event that gelding won. Lohan has eleven horses in training at the Downs and another big string quartered there is that of James Ever-mrn, who tins twenty-six horses in charge. A feature of training operations here this season is the appearance of James MacManus. wealthy California turfman. In charge of his own horses jit the Downs. He has nine head and they all appear t Jie in excellent condition for active work. Heretofore he MacManus siring has been In the hands or O. A. BiiiDcUl, who has o string of his own at Charleston and will arrive here some time this week wilh his band. MacManus enjoys the experienca and the out-door exaction of attending to his own horses and that is the reason lie has employed no trainer for his string this year. That he will be successful as a trainer seems probable, judging by his record in other ventures, which have always turned out well. Trainer Mose Goldhlatt decided before leaving Juarez to ship the entire string of Jefferson Livingston to the Lexington track. He has Ed Howard, probably th6 best two-year-old shown so far this year, engaged in the Breeders Futurity and is taking that youngster there with the hope of winning that rich event.
