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KENTUCKY DERBY HORSES AT WORK. • Slipshod. Big Smoke, Polroma, Sanward, Fleuro and Lena Misha Given Hardening Exercise. Louisville. Ky.. April L— All the candidates for the Kentucky Derby which are being trained at the local tracks, were on the course today. This even included .1. Livingstons crack colt Colonel Vcnuie, which has bee* slightly under the weather, but is now apparently entirely well again. H. P. Whitneys candidate. Slipshod, did the best work, going three-quarters hard held in 1:22, he being the only one that was given more than cantering exercise by their trainers. Big Smoke galloped a slow mile and a half and Polronia. Sunward and Fleuro all went a like distance at a slow pace. K. J. Nolans good -looking colt Lena Misha. attracted much attention while he was on the course. He bus a grand way of going with no friction, moving along over the ground with apparently no effort. A Derby candidate that is training well for the big race, but like Podge and Franklin, is quart-red at Douglas Park, is the chestnut colt Cosmic, owned by the Tennessee turfman. J. G. Greener, and in charge of trainer .1. W. May. Cosmic is a son of Countless, which, as a three -year -old, won the Saratoga Cup in 1910. Cosmic won three of his eight starts last year and was never but once outside the money. In his ft last start as a two-year-old he ran second to Big 1 fcmoke in the Fort Thomas Stakes at Latonia, with a brilliant band of other starters finishing behind ] him. During the past winter he has developed and I grown into a sightly three-year-old and possesses many of the- good qualities that made his sire so marked. Trainer May is a careful handler of horses and is giving Cosmic every attention in his training for the big event. His owner. J. G. Greener, has lieen one of the fortunate in turning up at short intervals with high class horses. He never owns much of a stable, but always has at least one good horse to carry his colors. He has always had ;i great love for Cosmic and told trainer May. when the colt was a yearling, that he had sent him a colt with which he could ml least win a Kentucky Derby. One thing in Cosmics favor in his Derby training is that he is an extra good doer and the slight sickness lie had at one time as a two-year-old has apparently left no marks on him. Trainer May has four other racers in his charge, they being Bayberry Candle. Malabar, Onota and the two-year-old bay colt Mirza. which is the last of the get of Mnsetto, the sire of Froglegs. This colt is out of the dam of Martinos, and is a most promising racing prospect. He belong to Greener, who bred him in Tennessee. Trainer May will take his string to Lexington for the meeting there more especially to give Cosmic a preliminary race to running him in the Derby. The most recent arrivals at the Downs are trainer Selhy, who brought in Little Mother and another horse, and Doc Pritchett. who has Tony Fashion and two others in his string. The latter came from Havana, while Sclby arrived from the east. Charles Benjamin, one of the most recent additions to the local turf, has in training at the Downs in charge of Noah Brooks a two-year-old rilly that may turn out to be one of the sensational youngsters of the year. She is a chestnut in color and is by the good race horse, Bourbon Beau. Her trainer broke her carefully last fall, but has never asked her to try to run any until the other day. when he told the l oy on her to let her go along a brisk quarter. The watches showed that she covered the iirst eighth in 11!:-, and galloped out the quarter in 24%, her rider easing her up all of the last hundred yards. She has perfect action and possesses an abundance of size and a track disposition that can hardly be improved. Her eighth in ll1.- is as fast as John W. Schorrs much talked aliout colt. Harry Kelly, has gone this year, and he has the advantage over her of having wintered at New Orleans.
