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TIMELY GOSSIP FROM KENTUCKY Louisville Ky April SO The latest fast work by candidates for the Kentucky Derby to be run Saturday May S stands to the credit of Last Coin and For Fair James Butlers crack unbeaten colt did a mile in 143M going the first eighth in 12 the quarter in 23 three furlongs in 35 the half in 49 and six furlongs in 120 Last Cjin was well in hand all the way and Is training as nicely this spring as any threeyearold now at the Downs He surely possess a world of speed and all appearances when properly rated will stay In most creditable style styleFor For Fair went six furlongs handily in 116 going the first eighth in 12 the quarter in 24 three furlongs in 37 the half in 4 and live furlongs in 102 He apparently went better as lie liiigthcned out the distance and lie seems to be a colt that must be reckoned as an extra good niter niterW W W Darden has arrived from Tennessee with his maiden Derby candidate Dortch The latter has not been here long enough to do any fast work but be is an extra good looker and has improved greaty since he was last seen on the Kentucky tracks He has been doing nicely in training in Tennessee f Jr his Derby engagement and before leaving there worked a mile and a quarter the distance of the big race in 212 He Is said to have ruii the first mile of this trial in a shade better than 141 He is now conceded to be a sure starter in the rich stake hi which he will only have to carry 110 pounds as he will be en ¬ titled to the full maiden allowance Mr Darden did not bring his Kentucky Oaks candidate Margaret I to the Downs This filly lias not done well in training this spring and the Tennessee turfman has been forced to blister and fire her and turn her out until next fall He brought in five other horses with Dortch one of them a fouryearold maiden gelding the twoyearold performers Little Father and Reciprocity and a couple of twoyear olds one a chestnut colt by Ivan the Terrible Miss Crawford and the other a brown filly by Sain Discord Little Father is looking better this season than he has in several years and promises to be a useful performer iu 1915 1915The The best work of the sensational fouryearold Rnamer since his arrival here from the east was a mile in 140 and pulling up a mile and a sixteenth in 148 He went the first quarter In 22J three furlongs in KlJ half mile in 40 live furlongs in 100 and six furlongs in 11 Some of the dockers caught the flying gelding the mile iu 139 He is surely iu rare form this spring springTwo Two of James Butlers Kentucky Oaks candidates Cupra and Diploma went a mile In 148 The former is one of the grandest threeyearold fillies In training and in spite of the prestige of such itficr Oaks candidates as Waterblossom and Em ¬ broidery will have the support of many good judges fH the race in case she is tho standard bearer at this great stable jn the rich stake stakeOne One of tho best recent workouts of any twoyear old In training here was that of the filly Ruthless a daughter of Pentecost and Kinma owned by the Missouri turfman L S Seligsteln Tills good litoking filly went three furlongs in 34 She was bred bv Dr C W Crowley and Is eligible to tho Debutante as well as the Juvenile stakes at the Downs springThe this spring The weather has been R extremely warm Jiere that there is little training activity after nine oclock each morning JSonie of the horses on account of the warm wave are being worked as early In the morning as live oclock This has given the rail birds more trouble than usual in get ¬ ting the trials of the various performers and a u consequence these dockers are in the dark as to the real merits of sonic of the horses ill train ¬ ing here hereII II C Applegate secretary and treasurer of the New Louisville Jockey Clu at Churchill Downs is In receipt of a letter from trainer F 1 Weir telling him of the wonderful lioilily condition of Old Rosebud which has just again l eeii put in training by tVii Jmrseiuan at Lexington and which will lie brought to Churchill Downs With the rest of the Weir stable at the conclusion of the Ken ¬ tucky Association meeting Trainer Weir says Old Rosebud today looks like a really great race horse So far as he can see the treatment given his legs last fall has been effective and he is confi ¬ dent that the great sou of Uncle is gootl for several years of racing He wrote Mr Applegate he would make no attempt with Old Rosebud in any of the big races this season confining his i er formances to sprinting Then if he goes through the year and can quit the turf in sound condition next autumn iu 1910 as a fiveyearold he will make a try with him for the big handicaps and rich allaged events It is understood that trainer Weir will make no attempt to race Old Itosebud this season until midsummer midsummerW W E Walsh has decided to mate his good mare Moonet the dam of Lady Moonet this season to the noted race horse Jack Atkin Her much talkeilof foal this eason is by Marathon If this colt turns out next season as expected Mr Walsh will mate her next year back to that richlybred imported horse horseIt It is settled that James Rowe with the Whit ¬ ney stable of horses headed by the Kentucky Derby and Oaks candidate the unbeaten filly Re ¬ gret will arrive here Saturday Information has come to several horsemen at the tracks that Regret has worked most sensationally in the east for the Derby and that trainer Rowe has great faith in her ability to set a new record for this race by a victoryJohn filly victory John Hachmeister manager of the Douglas Park and Latonia tracks has arrived here to join his assistant Frank Bnien in making preparations for the snring racing season at the local course Manager Hachmeister Is enthusiastic over the pros ¬ pects for the rich Kentucky Handicap which will be decided on the opening day of the meeting Saturday May 22 The event will bring together the greatest horses in the country including Luke McLuke and Roauier
