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DERBY CANDIDATES WHICH ARE SURE TO GO AND THEIR PROBABLE RIDERS Louisville Ky May 3 As the running of the Kentucky Derby rapidly approaches the belief continues lo grow and every indication points to a field of unusual size going to the post Below will be found a table of the absolutely certain starters with color and sex of each the sire owner weight to lie carried and probable jockey followed by another list embracing horses that are among the probable starters startersHorse JockeyPebbles Horse Wt Owner Jockey Pebbles 117 James Butler C Borcl BorclUegret Uegret 112 II P Whitney J Notter NotterRoyal Royal II 117 J Livinstoii A Nevlon NevlonDouble Double Eagle 117 Quincy Stable C Burlingume lV Crump 117 J V Schorr J Kederis Sharpshooter 114 Scliuyler Parsons J Loftus Dortch 110 W W Darden E Pool Little String 117 M B Gniber E Martin MartinFor For Fair 117 S M Miller II Goose GooseUncle McCaheyEmerson Uncle Bryn 117 Mrs R WWaldcn J McCahey Emerson TaylorNorse Cochran 117 U L Baker W Taylor Norse King 117 F B Leinulre J McCalio McCalioGoldcrest Goldcrest Boy 114 J W Schorr J Kederis KederisSome Some of the following less certain but probable starters may also go In the big race Horse Wt WtPhosphor Owner Phosphor 117 S L Parsons Spun Glass 112 II P Whitney Booker Bill 117 M C Moore Manager Waite117 T C McDowell liars and Stars 114 E R Bradley Ttan 117 Johnson Crosthwaite CrosthwaiteC Waterproof 114 C 17 John Hamilton Chalmers 11 J S Hawkins Even in case of anything like unsettled weather the Held in the Kentucky Derby tills season wquld suffer little In the scratching line as many of the probable starters are considered good mud run ¬ ners A glance over the list of certain and probable starters murks the race this season one of the most uncertain in speculation of any In the long years history of this event Any number of the sure starters In the big race next Saturday are known to possess tlie highest order of speed and thtlr breeding also Indicates that they will go a distance of ground The oVcht this year wus never as free of mishaps in training of the great stars eligible They have all done well In their preliminary racing even and those that have not had a race arc trained to the hour While it is generally conceded that Pebbles and Regret will divide honors In favoritism the support given Royal II will lie strong and since Ed Crumps work of a mile and an eighth in 153 he will also have good backing Max Hirsch who trains Norse King also has n following to play his judgment on this son of Fair Play which he makes no secret of saying will be one of the chief contenders at tlie windup of tlie race Sharpshooter also has many friends and the same can be said of Double Eagle and For Fair while Dortch will be one of the best backed maidens that ever started la a Ken ¬ tucky Derby i iNorse Norse King is a colt of most heroic size and power and must not be condemned because be is a castoff from A Belmonts stable Oldtimers can remember when the father of the present chairman of the Jockey Club let two colts leave his establishment and they turned out to be Badge and King Crab the former afterwards the winner of seventy races Norse King Is a halfbrother1 to Norman II which won the Two Thousand Guineas in 1908 and was the favorite that spring for the Epsom Derby Hirsch started Norse King three times in Maryland iKfore ranting here and claims lie should have won all hls storts anil at that he was only once beaten lie Is a member of the famous Levity tribe of horses on the dams side to which Salvator Lconalus Longstreet Tammany and other great threeyearolds belonged belongedThe The thought that Pebbles is not bred to go the Derby distance is not well founded The sire was a Kentucky Derby winner and his dam is full of the Isonomy and Sterling blood from a line of stayers The fact that his first dam is of tlie speedy Alarm cross makes him in that respect bred like Old Rosebud In his first line Old Rose ¬ bud was out of a mare by Hiinyar while Pebbles was out of a mare by Domino a son of Hiinyar HiinyarThis This early the city is rapidly filling up with visitors who are coming before tlie race to be sure to secure choice hotel accommodations Though many of the leading hotels have already reserved quarters for visitors to their limit there is an abundance of suitable rooms easily available to strangers in the many modern apartment houses and tlat buildings In this city all of which possess nil tlie comforts and conveniences of the most up todate hotels So none need keep away from Louisville next Saturday thinking they cannot se ¬ cure tlie best accommodation during their stay In this city to see the Derby run All can come that desire to and l e assured they will find a race track big enough now to accommodate the greatest of outdoor crowds and a guarantee is given them that they will witness a great Derby and three yearold contest on Saturday next nextMackenzie Mackenzie Adklns string consisting of Buck horn Sea Shell Helen Barliee San Vega and Leo Skolny lias reached hero from Lexington and are now quartered at Churchill Downs This firms jockey T McTuggart lias at present no mount in the Kentucky Derby but in case trainer James Howe concludes to also start Spun Glass in the big race with her stable companion Regret then he will ride that daughter of Rock Sand in the big race raceB B W McGinn handicappcr at Churchill Downs Douglas Park and Latonia lias arrived here for the season His many friends are delighted to know that this noted racing ollicial is now enjoy ¬ ing the best of health and Is stouter and stronger this spring than he has been In years Since com ¬ ing here 1m has been making himself familiar with the various stables of horses to in tlitsway sift out the handicap division frmn the selling plater class He was amazed with the list of stables submitted to him and tlie wonderfully high class of the horses which will race on the Ken ¬ tucky tracks this season seasonThat That A L Itogcrs the Missouri turfman thinks that he has one of the greatest twoyearolds In Iraining in the Blues colt Heir Apparent is best illustrated by the fact that he has applied for a 10000 insurance policy on this promising colt Heir Apparent won his only start at Juarez last winter He has many valuable stake engagements this season He will make his first appearance in Kentucky under colors in the Bashford Manor Stakes at tlie Downs Ills other Kentucky en ¬ gagements tills spring and summer are the Spring Trial Stakes at Douglas Park and the Harold Stakes and tlie Cincinnati Trophy at Latonia LatoniaW W II Timmons one of the oldtime turfmen in the days when Guttenberg and Gloucester flourished is an early arrival to see the Keutuckv Dprby run and other great racing in this state this spring and summer He owned and raced many good daysRegret horses In the old days Regret worked the full Derby distance this morn ¬ ing in 208 Fractional 1225 37 50 102 115 128 141 155 She pulled up a bit tired but cooled out in groat shape and did her work without a pacemaker Ed Crump worked a mile and an eighth at Douglas Park in 152 Fractional 12 23 35 47 59 112 130 He pulled up a little tired but cooled out well
