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GOSSIP AND COMMENT FROM KENTUCKY. I.iaiis ille Ky.. May l:,.— .loliti Furlong has been workiag ImpressiTelj for his Kentncky Handicap .engagement a! Douglas Park. The lons gelding baa apparently regained bis old time dash and comes jil the tinKh of his trials like be lias always been ,ceililed with being, a thorough stayer. Yesterday ie parked a good mile in 1 :42%, and be lias bad • xerul olh i nials ai ibis distance in 1 :4" or lietter within the la-l I wo weeks. ]i is the intention of trainee William R. aliee to give him a preHaUaary rare or two foe hi- Kentucky Handicap engage inein daring the anneal Churchill Downs meeting, and he believes this will make him thoroughly til :oi hi- ! e-t effort in Douglas Parks big event. Which will be run on the opening day of the meeting. Ha tarda] . May 2::. Prlacc Hermls continues to train superbly for the «fg race ami trainer Marion looks for the foui-raar-ald to be even better than be was last season, ills la-: work wa- a mile in l:!:;1-,. and the mile ai.. I an eighth, pulling up. in a shade under 1 :" 7. prince Hermls trial for the big -take at Douglas Park will eoaae next Balardaj at tin- Downs, hi i he Clark Handicap, when after he finishes in that i ace. trainer Marion will work him out a mile and ., niiarter with tin- colors up. The Clark llamlicap. Saturday, al tbe Downs, is mare to be a great race this season and will afford a line on the star feature event of tile Coining uaeetlng at Douglas Park. Of course aaaae of the » llgible- in tbe Kentucky Handicap are not in the Clark Handicap, but many horse- of high class are among the entries for the latter race that are in the lormer big treat and are sure to atari in bath lace-. lfcere Is surely a great array of horses with wonderful racing records in the Kentucky Handicap Hita s|iring and tin- event, will its .000 added, uill ari-u-e a-, much interest as any race of the Sanson, not even excepting tbe big Derby events. While il" Derby generally furnishes the champion among the three year-olds, it is safe to say tbat the winner Of he Kentucky Handicap Ibis season will l.e bailed a- tbe king of the older division of dorses. .1. T. Weaver ha- only four horses in bis string :r, ihc Down- Aside from Oaarell, his at able eaa -luts of Ymir. John i.. Wearer and tbe two year-old ;« Easy. The latter is eligible to the Juvenile Stake* to be run al the Downs on Monday, liar IS. and she i- alao in the Spring Trial Stakes ai Doug las Park. Mr. Wearer expects Qewell to give a ismI aaoooat of herself in tla- Kentucky Handicap. He probablj will -tart her in tbe Clark Handicap :tt the Downs next Saturday, but he thinks the ll-taiice of ihat race, one mile ami a sixteenth, is not un much to her liking as the longer rni-e at Douglas Park, of one mile and a quarter. Cowell i. in In the Kentucky Handicap last season and had ill l be bad luck in the race and still at tbat was ■only sxised out by tbe lightly weighted Any Ioit in tin- last few strides. She showed her real iueiiil hater uu In the l.alouia Derby, when she held I he noted three year-old. Great Britain, perfectly sale after they had gone a mile. If she meets with no mishaps between now ami Ma "_":. the date ■ a which the Kentucky Handicap Is to be run. she will he I most dangerous starter in that rich stake. W. -I. Spier-, of OContiell note, has only two horars in training at tbe Down- thi- spring, they being the than year-olds Beraaata and Laird of Lang don. They are both doing well and be expects them to win before long. Anything Spiers has in training i- always respected by his brother horse mr a, as be is a skillful handler of hemes. K. C. Taylor has purchased the eight year-old mare. Kupicola. and will mate her this season with Carry Herrmann, sire of the Latoiiia Derby winner. Covernor Cray. Kunicola is a daughter of that great iaee harae. Advance laard, ami is out of Kin Bone by Kingston: her next dam is the famous Koyal Kose. dam of the Futurity winner. IVnnnnt : the king of American sprinters. Iron Mask: Lancastrian and the Kentucky sire Transvaal. .1. S. Hawkins. Who baa the crack t wo-year-old. Chalmers, in hi- stable, reports that bis noted broodmare. Wing Ting, winner of the Kentucky Oaks of 1907, baa aeceatly foaled a beautiful coal-black idly by that gnat race harae; Ballot. This daughter of The Commoner will be mated this season With Plaudit, winner of the Kentucky Derby of ls!is. Mr. Hawkins other good mare, La Iticclle, had the misfortune to slip her foal by Ballot this spring and will be mated this season with the futurity winner. Ogilen. Mr. llawkin- thinks he never saw a suckling illy that had anything on Wing Tings foal this season and he has already begun building air castles as to what she will be able to do on I be turf when she is a I wo and a I hree year-old in 1916-17. Woodford Clay, one of the partners in the racing linn of Clay Brothers, who la-t Monday sold Sea Shell to the Canadian turfman. K. J. Mackenzie. thinks this grand looking filly will develop later en in ihe summer into one of the best two-vearolds of her se. She is of a different type than Ocean Bound, her sister, baring more length and being built on a mote powerful frame. It looks as if all she needs is time to gradually come to her best and that she will show staying powers with her ihUBtliag speed. Trainer .lack Adkius. who selected her for Mr. Mackenzie, is sweet on her. Adkius is oae horseman who makes few mistakes when he pays lor bis employer anything like a good price for a horse. He got a bargain from Clay Brothers when lie bought Bacfchora from them here two seasons ago and be is equallv pleased with his latest pik.
