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DERBY CHOICE WORKS WELL PEBBLES IS GIVEN MILE TRIAL IN 141 AT CHURCHILL DOWNS Kilkenny Boy Another of the Butler Eligibles EligiblesRuns Runs Close Up to His Stablcmate All tho Way Timely Items from Louisville Louisville Ky April 21 The latest work at Churchill Downs of James Butlers Kentucky Derby crack Pebbles was highly sensational It added no little to the public regard for the favorite for tin 10000 stake which will be run this spring for the fortyfirst time at the course of the New Louis ¬ ville Jockey Club on tho opening day of the coming meeting at that great plant Saturday May 8 8Pebbles Pebbles was attended In his workout by Kilkenny Boy another of Mr Butlers candidates which throughout the trial ran a length behind the son of Ben Brush The slashing threeyearold ran the tirst eighth in 11 the quarter in 2 the hair I 47 live furlongs in 59 six furlongs in 113 seven furlongs in 12775 and tho mile in 141 He went on a mile and an eighth pulled up to a walk in 158 He pulled up a bit tired but tlx work will undoubtedly do him much good and ripen him to go over the full Derby course soon at speedPebbles nearly racing speed Pebbles Is understood to have had up 123 pounds and was worked in blinkers Kilkenny Boy kept right along in the wake of his great stable mate and his performance was also Impressive though It is supposed he had up much lighter weight than the son of Bch Brush BrushThe The trial demonstrated that Pebbles possesses an abundance of speed and that he can cover the ground as impressively as Old Rosebud did in his Derby preparation last season seasonThe The only other work of any Derby eligible wan by Sam McMeekin in J B Maddens stable He went a slow mile in 147 He looks good and Is evidently woll advanced In his training this spring The only other Butler horse 10 work for speed was Caprice handilyA which went lire furlongs in 104 handily A twoyearold in J K Maddens stable did the best work of any of the youngsters a quarter in 22 Trainer Pete Coyne In charge of George J Longs horses sent Dundreary and Harold two threeyearolds six furlongs in 110 and both acted like useful performers The twoyearold black lilly Ava Trovato in William Gersts string went a quarter in 23 and looks like a speedy youngster She is by Ben Trovato out of Ava by Atheling and traces to the Levity family Air Gerst bought her last fall from C B Reid who bred her for 250 and it looks as if he surely got a bargain She may not be of stake class but it will take a fairly good oiie to beat her when just at her best bestThe The best work of any other horse at the Downs was that of Gipsy Love in W 5 Yankes string which went six furlongs in 117 Hodge was among the other horses of note on the track but lit only galloped slowly by the side of a pony for two miles He looks better than ever this spring and has already been a mile as fast as 144 He looks like a grand fouryearold prospect this spring as lie is high in flesh and unusually hardy in bodily condition As he will not be compelled to undergo such a preparation as lie did last season for the Kentucky Derby he should win more races tills season In ll Hodge led the race winning two yearolds of America by capturing fifteen races including some stakes stakesBoth Both President Grainger and Manager Winn were at the Downs as usual yesterday and are elated over the rapid way in which the work is lining rushed along on tin improvements at the big plant which will give spare for the comfortable accom ¬ modation of from eight to ten thousand more people than have ever before witnessed a race on a Ken ¬ tucky track As now arranged there need be no congestion in the future at this course no matter how large the crowd may be that comes to see the Derby In the grandstand three hundred new seatr have been added to the reserve section The course from one end to the other will surely lie a revelation to those who gather to see the great Derby run on May 8 8IAW IAW Marlon will not take Prince Hermis his crack fiveyearold to Lexington and that good performer will do his first racing of 1SH at the Downs He is lusty and high in Hesh this season and ha done no racing since last fall He should be a dangerous quantity in all the overnight han ¬ dicaps as well as what stake engagements be has to meet this spring Marlon sent only two fillies to Lexington they being Oda May and Boston Belle BelleW W S Trevey who had Hawthorn as a two and threeyearold thinks that he will win tin Ken lucky Oaks with Ormuiii which he took to Lexing ¬ ton a few days ago with Mama Johnson Trevey still has live horses at th r Downs none of which will race until the spring racing season opens Inkle which was in bis stable all winter has been shipped to Raniocas Farm in New Jersey to be retired to the stud he having been purchased recently by Mrs L A Livingston for breeding purposes He was a fair race horse and bis brecdiivg Is so rich in fash ¬ ionable blood lines that Mrs Livingston believes ho will make a success as a sire Trevey thinks Or mnlti will win tin Aslilaud Oaks at Lexington and then come on and capture the big Kentucky Oaks nice She has all her twoyearold speed this spring and act like a stayer Dr Cann has gelded for Cloher Keene tho threeyearold Moscowa which raced at Juarex last winter and this performer will nob race until summer when they hope that be will snake them a useful winner He won nt Jmniroz last winter but lias never raced in public as well as be showed in private training trainingTrainer Trainer Pete Coyne has no idea as yet just when he will take up George J Longs great horse Free Lance but it is now believed that before tho year Is out this noted Derby winner will be seen under colors once more While In the stud at Basliford Manor Farm lie has been fired and his owner believes that in time he will stand training and run a good race or two arty way The first of bis foals are now coming and they have so far fulfilled all expectations expectationsAnother Another great horsi which is still at the farm is George M Hondrles noted fiveyearold Great Britain which trainer John Walters will not take up until sometime the coming month He left the gre t son of The Commoner in Tennessee when he shipped the other horses of tills stable here Groat Britain wintered in lino shape und is as Round today as he was when first put in training trainingNews News comes from Lexington that 1 T Weaver has again had to tire his Derby winner Gowcll as the great mare has shown a return ot her old Inflnnitr There is no doubt that the noted daughter of Ort Wells has about finished her turf career and it Is said that Mr Weaver would 1m glad to dispose of her for breeding purposes if be could got anywhere noar her real vnlm Thoro have been few letter threeyearold fillies seen on the western turf than Gowoll was nt that age in lt and with good racing liifc she would IIIPV won the Kontuckv Derby as well as the Latonla Derby that season
