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RAIN INTERRUPTS TRAINING AT LOUISVILLE. Louisville. Ky.. March 28. — On account of the heavy rain Sunday which caused the tracks lure to be a bit slow in the last two days, no work worthy of being timed has been reeled off by any of the Derby candidates. AH the many three year-olds here engaged in the big race, however, have been given work and are doing as well in their preparation as their trainers could ask. The best work done by any of the two year olds hero since the going became a bit slow stands to the credit of a Rourbon Reau fillv. which ran a quarter in 24%, covering the first eighth in 12.-.. At Douglas Park J. s Wards two Derby candidates. Dodge and Franklin, are going along well in their training and whichever turns out the best of the pair is sure to be a starter. At present trainer Ward thinks that Dodge will be his standard bearer in the Derby and expects his slashing good looking son of Jim Guffney to give a good account of himself in the race. Ward has two exceedingly good looking two .v ear olds in training this spring in Sedan and I.eilin. both of which ar.- also by Jim OalTney. For this year the borses trained by this turfman run in his own name instead of the old firm of Weber ,x Waul. Trainer "Dick" Brooks, who so long handled the horses of W. F. Schulte. and rode races before lie became a trainer, has a two year old filly which he purchased himself last fall from Schulte, which may develop into one of the best youngsters of her S"X of the rear. Sin- is an extra handsome chest nut filly of average sjz- and is by tin- gaad race horse King Olympian Gliding Relle. by Belles Commoner. Brooks has claimed the name King Relle for his filly and that name has been accepted for her by the registrar of the Jockey Club. Brooks has three other horses in training this spring all of which are doing well. One is the filly Fleetabelle. Another is a three-year-old maiden by Cvclades and the other is the old racer R. II. Adair. The latter is rail J lag more flesh this spring than he has since a young horse and bids fair to return to the races a good plater. The only foal that eliding Relle had previous to the promising yooagster Breaks now owas was a colt by Sempronius. which is now a three year old. if alive, but which never has raced. Three good lightweight riders are recent arrivals here and have joined the stables of their contract employers. They include M. Gamer, now under contract to Corrigua and MeKiaaey; P. Lowder, under engagement to H. 1*. Whitney, and W. Rrazel. now with the stable of George Wingfield. On last veils form Gamer is the star, as in 1915 he led the list of American race winning riders. I.owder also rode well last year, winning sixty-seven races, while Brunei the same year, his first in the saddle, captured nineteen races. These three good lightweights, with the addition of tie- big winter development in the jockey line. C. Hunt, make a quartet of diminutive jockeys of high merit, in the capacity of simply exercise boys. All of them are kept busy in the morning hours, as the stable 1 they are connected with have big strings of horses. They are called upon to sit in tin- saddle as long as the horses of the stables they are connected with are sent out on the track by their trainers for their daily morning exercise. Of the older jockeys a recent arrival here is Guy Gamer, a brother to M. Gamer, and who. in 191D. himself led the winning list of jockeys with 21 M winning mounts to his credit. Previous to the war in Europe Carrier was engaged as a jockey in France. He returned to tiiis country last fall and rode with good success at the Juarez track last winter. While exercising, one of the English -bred tlin-e-year-olds in the J. Livingston Stable, threw his rider and in his wild rush around the wrong way of the track at the Downs, threatened for a time to injure himself. He. however, suddenly took a sot ion to pull up himself with a bunch of horses standing on the backstretch and. as a consequence, was then easily caught, thus escaping any hurt whatever. The colt is one of this string that has never started and has not been nominated in any of tin-big stakes. He has always been a hard hots- to handle, according to trainer II. R. Brandt.
