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* LOUISVILLE HORSES ADVANCING IN WORK. Several Kentucky Derby Candidates About Ready for a Good Speed Mile. Louisville, Ky., April 5. — The prospect of clearing weather and fast track conditions by the last of the week will probably result in several good early gallops by the candidates in training here for the Kentucky Derby. Both Dodge and Franklin, in the stable of J. S. Ward, have been a fairly good mile, and others regarded as about ready to go this distance embrace Big Smoke, Polroma. Sanward. Fleuro. Huffaker, Lena Misha, Pockichoo, Cosmic and Slipshod. With good weather for the next ten days a big advancement will be noted in the Derby candidates and it will then be possible to about state the ones that are sure to be ready to do their best in the big race. Both Heir Apparent and Colonel Vennie. which were let up on for n few days on account of being slightly off. are now taking their regular work •■•gain, but are at present not up to training condition as compared with other Derby eligibles here. However, a wreck more will make a vast difference in them and it is now thought that their slight let up. with good training luck from now on. will not prevent them from being fit to meet their engagement in the big race. Old Miss, which has caused some talk by her development with scarcely any training, and is owned by the Louisville turfman. Thomas M. Murphy, is not out of Lady Languish, as was published last Tuesday. The latter mare is her grandam. her dam being a daughter of Hastings. Lady Languish. Hamburgs half-sister, had only two fillies by Hastings. One of these, the dam of this filly, is now owned by Mr. Murphy, while Hal Price Headley. at Lexington, owns the sister to the dam of Old Miss. The two-year-old bay gelding, which trainer Jack Adkins purchased a few days ago of trainer Albert Simons, acting for H. P. Whitney, is named Cap-tian Candid, and is by Broomstick — Loyal, and as a consequence a brother to True as Steel. He is entered in all the principal two-year-old events on the Kentucky circuit tracks. This makes four horses this trainer now has in his care, one a five-year-old maiden which he shipped to Kentucky from California and the other pair the well-known horses Leo Skolny and San Vega. Both the latter pair are looking exceedingly well this spring and Leo Skolny especially takes the eye at the present time as his development from last year is marked. Adkins has his eye on several other horses, which he has in mind buying in the next few weeks. He does not care to have a large racing string, preferring quality to numbers and, in this opinion, he is backed up by his racing partner, the wealthy Canadian turfman. K. D. Mackenzie. This firm is embarking in the breeding business in Kentucky for the first time. Trainer Adkins thinks P.uckhorn. the horse they have in the stud, will prove a success and some day in mating with a mare like Helen Barbee, may send a Derby winner to the races. He told several horsemen the other day that he stood ready to pay as much as ,000 for any mare that they could guarantee would show him the racing form of his old favorite. Mr. Mackenzie will be here to see the Kentucky Derby run and it will be then that a couple of high-class racers may he added to this stable. The Texas turfman, W. J. Weber, in whose colors Hodge. Waremore and others race, has arrived here from his home in San Antonio. Texas, for the racing season on the Kentucky tracks. He has had several flattering offers for Waremore, but when asked to even put a price on the son of First Chip, he shrugged his shoulders and remarked, "Well, wait until I see what he does in company with all these good-looking two-year-olds that are here." Waremore shipped safely from the Juarez track to the Downs and has done well ever since he landed here. His victories in impressive style at Juarez have caused a lot of attention to be drawn to him. as such cracks as Hawthorn and Old Rosebud were developments of that course. Blarney, which Weber purchased to get Ware-more, has done exceedingly well recently for trainer Kay Spence and the latter has advised Weber not to have him gelded for a time. Spence believes that gelding will cure Blarney of his bad track manners, but as he seems to be going along generously now in his work, he will try the experiment of racing him once more as an entire horse. Since last year he has had gelded that other notorious track rogue. Hocnir. and the change has greatly benefited this now five-year-old, which is as good an actor at present as is in training. Waremore will make his first start in Kentucky at the coming Lexington meeting. If he fulfills expectations there in purse races, he will make his first bid for stake honors in the Bashford Masts* Stakes at the Downs. Wejicr sees no reason why he should not be a stake winner, as his sire. First Cihp. a good race horse, has with limited stud opi ortunities never failed to sire a horse that was not good enough to will a race. Waremores dam. while not fash-1 iouably bred, comes from a speedy line of horses. ] i , 1 I 1 ; 1 I ! 1 1 1 • 1
