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GREAT DERBY IN PROSPECT j PROMINENT CANDIDATES FOR CHURCHILL DOWNS RACE TRAINING SATISFACTORILY. Interest in Approaching Event Keener Than Ever — Hod?e and Old Rosebud Show Speed in Work- Outs — Other Gossip From Louisville. I.oiiisvill.-. K.v.. April 11. The Kentucky Derby will In- run for tlic fortieth nine at cinm-hiil Down-; nexi month. Sever before in "its lung history has ihere been *n 1 1 1 1 n 1 1 Interest in it a- ii im-. .-« i-. n~i*-1 ihis spring. This i- n m wholly due by any an- iii the fact that it will in- rteber Uiis season, with its glU.UJU in added liniiict. Iii:iii : 1 1 1 v Derby r:i - - ever before run in Kentucky, but rather because the prospective neM embraces uoe •! i. - most spectacular bawls »f i hree-tear-olds ever trailed in this eoaatrj for a l»erby race. Tin- date or the running of the Derby has beea i-i for Notnrday, Maj 8, imir weeks be There will ! •■ an abuuuunce oi time for ail ibe cracks to ;iii:iin their beat coodil mu for n mile and a auarter i. nit ».i . n lhal date. So better evidence "i I SB a deapread interest in the great race ibis spring .•.in in given than the fart mat leading tnrfiaeu of the i-oii!iir are making enormous bios ror borses eligible lo the Derby, in the la-i lea daya |iricea bare been sought on --i u these siais a ad iti ever] instance bj bona tide bidders lor incut. Tin IiMiiDiiiis sum of gatft.uun was asked for old Iti.M-iiuii .mil 3,UUU has beea offered for thai geld ins;. This would be ;t record price for a three-year. il, i eld tag. Hodge baa I n priced al 0,000, a- bare Bradleys Choice, Black Taney aad Doors and Saddle, whin- inquiries have beea aiade if Kalpli can be hianrht for 3,000. A Derby race that has unions; Its entries six boraea rained by their owners a -43.000 inui in- regarded as out of the ordinary. Ii i-iiit be said to the credit of the Mew Louisville J.u-lii : n 1 1 thai ilii- present remarkable li iirli valu at ion. of tin- crack I nree-y ear-olds of America is due in a largo measure to its liberality in increasing t be added monej to the Derby to the tempting sum of .10,000. Willi sm-li ■ rare early in the racing i~,i -i ■!! lo a three-year-old ii i-- no woudei -. m lial prices for soojj horses have -oared 1 1 i r t • 4 • t- in f Kentucky than was erW before known. A Kentucky Derby winner is usually Invested with a sort oi haw. This lias been the rule since ArtstMes won the tirst running of this historic rare bark in 1875. This season arm more dtstlnc-lioii than usual will attach to the winner, since -o many stars are engaged thai it will tak. an extra good three-year-old to win the rich prize. Those who imagine thai all Old Rosebud or any other of the noted three-year-olds engaged aad regarded as la vincible by their owners and trainers will have to .Id will be to gallop a«mnd the course may as well make up their minds that 1 he race will he desperate ly contested, ami the winner will undoubtedly have 10 in- one of th ■ besl three year old- of the present decade. It will require both apeed ami stamina to win the Kentucky Derby on May .• and keen judges think, in spite of the prestige of soch cracks as old Koseliud. Ralph, lliniyt. Bradleys Choice. Black Teaej and Boots aad Saddle, that the stake pr« statu an open aspect. Little hj pnliliely known of soase of the Kentuckj Derby candidates nominated by eastern turfmen. Im- instance, Angus! Betaaoat. rhainaaa of the Jockey Club, has two beautifully bred tbree-year olils eligible fop the Derby in Defemluni and Thornbtll. The latter is .1 brother to Hawthorn, while tin* former is a son of the Epsom Derby win nor. lioi-k Sand, sire of elassie stake winners both in England and ihis country. Thomas 1 . Kau lias 1 he lillv Stake and Cap engaged in the race and Dal Iarr has ;1 Derby eligible in The Gover Any one of this,- may turn out to be a crack three-year-obl. and the same applies to other dark banes in the big rare. Many improvements are now tinder way at the Churchill Dow us course for the opening of the spring meeting at this plant on Derby day. When ilie gates an- thrown open on the afternoon of May •» the gronada of the New Louisville .lockey Club vniII present an appearance unexcelled by any rare track in he world. Manager If. .1. Winn is looking alter every detail thai will not only make the plain delightful to the eye. but as well contribute lo the • oniforl and convenience of the genera] raciag public. He anticipates that beyond tin- question of doubt the Kentucky Derby this s|,nuj; will be witnessed by a crowd which will bieak all records in tie- way ii attendance in the history of Kentucky raciag. Dnrtag the twelve days of raciag ai the Dawaa iiii~ sprint;, in sdditioo to the Derby six other great Make events are to In- derided. These fbract the historic Kentuckj oaks and Clark Baadicap and such other fixtures as the Bashford Manor. Debatan ii- Juvenile and Frank Iehr stakes. It will be iwerro daya ol glorions raciag and of a smallty thai will not 1 .eelliil in America this season. Three-quarters in 1:1-". by Bodge ami a half mite in -ix - bj obi Rosebud are the latest notable bit-■ ■ work done by Kentucky Derby candidates at the two local track--. Cbarchlll Downs and Douglas Dark Ralph has had onlj ranterlag exercise for the last da] or two. as after his sood mile in 1:45% wotk-.iitt he was given a mild physic by trainer Pete Coyne and probablv he will not be set down a-am at anything like racing speed until the coming week. Vandergrift, in .1. W. Schorrs -table, has only bail -low quarters lately, but William Gersl -Derby candidate, Brlckbjy. went a mile yesterday In 1 |0 All the Derb] elfgiblea quartered at Douglas Dark track, as well a- at Churchill Downs, are doing a- well iii their traiaing as could be wished for ami all promise to be read] to go a mile and a quartei .hi Hie dale Bel for be big race. Saturday. Ifaj 0. Sum- -harp speed wa- shown by various borses in Work at both 1 our-- within the last forty-eight hours. Those thai worked Impressively at the Do*ns weio Princess Janice, Bve-furiongn in 1KB, Irsl half in »•-.: Spindle, Ive farhmgs in 1:M: Dilatory. live furlongs in 1 : • . brecaiag; John D. Wakefield, ■1 saaarter in W: and Apple, a quarter in 25. Sim I iii- aaaed waa displayed by Inez. Rosalie. Sir Wil linn Uinablo. Bbodes ami liar.. Id. all two year old members of George .. Longs stable. l Douglas Dark David Craig went a half In |sj. • potilarabia. a half in 48%: Leoeharea, a half In 40- Ravenhall, a half in •%; La Datrie. a half in ."---. : Cle vron. a half in 50%; and Luke Mel ake three quarters in 1 :10. carload of sixteen boraea arrived at Churchill Downs from Kl Da-o. Tex., embracing tin- strings of .1 Iniensetter. J. L. Blackford and .1. A. SeeUiiiL; ton Blackfords string is in charge f trainer W. K. Toltreil I» •"• shipment are the well known older W erformers Lad] Panchita. Sea Cliff ami Hardy and tlw smart two. war old- SiKcr HI0--0111. Vampire. |..lieka. Meeliuka and Dcwgia. all son- and daugfa rers of that great race horse, Ifcelick. All the boraea n Ihia shipment reached tin- Downs Mark in 1:. mil condition and an- now quartered in the long barti at the bead of the old Chute, Where HodgC and ,!,,. past of Kav Bpeaeel horses have i|iiarter-. a-well as W. H. Fizeis ~t 1 in-. Jockey W. LouBSberry, who rodr Cock o the Walk. I ihi o" M Life and other good horse- for Frederick Johnson, Is now at Churchill Down.- exerefariag boraea Vin Jolin fxiwc who baa Taaam Butters western Htrtaag oi iw 1 ear oiii- 111 charge. Louasbeiry baa ,1 iin-h reeovered from tin effects of an accident in arhieh. lie lijiiircd and is now in tine condition, lie ex|«-cts to be able to ride this spring a- lisrlit as 101 pounds. Jockey A. Ifett, whose services are much sought afler at present by several big stable-, i- spending t short vacation ai nis home in Vancouver, but expects to leave there for Lexington in time for t !• ■ opening of the Kentucky soring racing season al tie-Kentucky Association track April 24. Motta con tract is held by W. F. Moody, of Vancouver. B. C. Dr. C. aim lias gelded for Tom Blown the three- year-oid brother to Flabbergast and he will be turned int until the Latonia summer meeting begaaa. A recent visitor to the local course- was c. H. Bciiyinan. manag.-r of J. B. Haggins famous Elui-endorf Farm. While here be took a look at the various DeJby i aiididat,-. Mr. Berrynian sold lo B. F. arihan the bitters Derby candidate, Sur-piising. when h- wa- a yi-ailing. Trainer A. D. Steele will ship his string of five horses to Lexington to race during the coming meeting, provided be can get suitable st;iu- for their occupancy, lb- went to Lexington yesterday to see if be could get Obe quart, r- he ueaarea for his strimr. ID- wants to trt out in races there his Derby eaedl date, Thoiiius Ciillawav.
