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WINNER WILL NOT BE EASY TO PICK Kentucky Derby Assuming a Mora Open Aspect as Date for Its Running Approaches Louisville Ky April 27 The unbeaten colt Last Coin In James Butlers stable is taking his preparation for the Kentucky Derby to be run at Churchill Downs on Saturday May S as impressive ¬ ly as his great stable companion Pebbles which is also A certain starter In thn rich stake Last Coins latest work was a mile Monday under double wraps In 144 He stepped oft the first quarter slowly in 25 went to the three furlong post in 37 to the half in 4 and breezed out six fur ¬ longs in 110 and seven furlongs in 129 Like Pebbles he Is a generous horse in hls work and apparently has keen speed They are surely a great pair of Derby candidates and it is certain no two such threeyearolds were ever seen In the same barn at the Downs DownsWith With the excellent racing form shown at Lex ¬ ington by Jefferson Livingstons great English colt Royal II and the fact that H P Whitney will send here his threeyearold stars to contest for the rich prize the Derby race assumes a more and more open aspect Ii addition to these cracks other stars engaged that can be reckoned as most dangerous are the Futurity winner Tro lau Sharpshooter and Phosphor in Schuyler L Parsons stable and Garbage which is still in the east but may be sent here by his owner Captain 10 B Cassatt To this list of great threeyear olds must also lie added For Fair which In his last work at the Downs did a mile and a quarter in 215 cantering all the way He went the first eighih in 11 the quarter in 25Jf three furlongs in 39 the half in 52 five furlongs in Ii5 six furlongs in 119 seven furlongs in 132 the mile in l45 and the mile and an eighth in 159 159For For Fair is seasoned by winter racing and witli a few more slow workouts and a fast mile or two within the next ten days will lie ready to show his best form in the Derby He made many friends in his last work at the Downs and his owner Dr G M Miller unhesitatingly says that he has never feared any of the Kentuckytrained Derby candidates the oppositon he accounts as serious being from the easternowned horses that are engaged this year in the great race He be ¬ lieves For Pair will hold Royal II safe in the race but that his slashing son of Fair Play will have his task cut out in meeting such stars as Pebbles Last Coin Prince Henry and the un ¬ beaten filly Regret For Fair was bought from August Belniont as a yearling by Henry McDaniel who took him at that age with his other horses to Juarez When that turfman made arrange ¬ ments to train the Canadian stable of horses he now has in charge lie put his racing string at Juarez on the market at private sale He first offered For Fair to one turfman for 1000 hut left the sale of his horse in the hands of his as ¬ sistant trainer who understood he wanted 1200 for him Before the man who was trying to buy him at that figure could hoar from Mr McDaniel as to what lie would actually take for the colt Dr Aliller came along and took the son of Fair Play paying 1250 for him As a yearling he worked a quarter faster than 24 and has steadily improved since the first time he was given an actual trial He does not possess the early burst of speed of many of the Derby candidates of this season but he begins to run at the end of six furlongs and his owner figures tiiat if the speed marvels in the great race this spring weaken in the final quarter For Fair will be looking the winner in the eye at the finish should he fail to reach the winning line in front He is one of the candidates in the rich stake that is counted upon to surelv go the Derby course courseSecretary Secretary If C Applegate of the New Louis ¬ ville Jockey Club has arranged for reduced rates on all the railroads leading into this city from all points in Kentucky during the coining meeting at Churchill Downs The special days that these rates will be in force include Derhv day Satur ¬ day May S Clark Handicap day Saturday May 15 and Kentucky Oaks day Friday Slay 21 when the twelveday meeting tit this plant will close The special rates granted this spring by these railroads are unusually liberal liberalTrainer Trainer Steve Lawler who has the horses of the Quincy Stable in charge 1n which string are the Kentucky Derby candidates Trojan Double Eagle Quincy and Viceroy owned by the New York turfman James F Johnson has applied for stable room at the Downs for thirteen horses which are now quartered at Lexington Two of thee Derby candidates will surely go to the post for the rich stake probably Trojan and Qnincy Trainer Lawler writes that he expects the Quincy Stable representatives to give a good account of themselves In the Derby and he intimates that Trojan will show that his success in the rich Futurity Stake last season was no fluke The great fouryearold Ronmer made his first appearance on the track under the saddle at Churchill Downs on Monday and breezed a quarter down the backstrotch under a strong pull in 25 Trainer A J Goldsborough says Ronmer will be ready to I egin racing this spring as soon as the Downs meeting opens next Saturday week He wintered splendidly and apparently will be much of a champion this season as he was in 1914 as a threeyearold He is not a flashy horse to look at but in scanning him closely it is difficult to suggest an improvement in any part of his make nit and in running as well as working lie poes around the track like a piece of frictlouless ma ¬ chinery chineryTurfman Turfman W E Walsh has had the good fortune of having had foaled at the Carr Piatt farm near Lexington n handrome bay colt by imported Marathon out of Mbonot his good broodmare by imported Donald A This youngster is a half brother to that sneedy filly Lady Moonet and these two are the only foals she has ever had with the exception of a colt by Dick Welles which was unfortunately poisoned when he was five weeks old Mnonets foal this season is reported to be one of the handsomest colts of this spring in tlit blue grass region lie is unusually large and already has l een admired by many good judges This mare never actually showed in public her best form owing to accidents both in training and racing She was credited as a twoyearold with the most sensational trial ever scored over the old St Louis fair grounds track J C Calm and J B Resposs were among the horsemen who timed her and she ran five furlongs in 59 She raced about a dozen times in her career and won a number of her starts in fact all of thoe in which she had good racing luck and a fair break from tle barrier Mr Kesness tried to buy her when she was a twoyearold but her owner made up his mind not to sell her and even in the years when racing in the country looked blue and he did not even breed her he still retained her She is richly bred on both sides being out of Koenigan by imported Masseto and from then on her pedi ¬ gree is all English the next dam being Imported Gillian by imported The Hake or Carnival and the latters dam was Sea Breeze by VVentherhit Mr Walsh has Lady Moonot in training here and she looks extra good this spring but as much as he thinks of her he values her less than her suckling halfbrother
