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HORSES DOING WELL AT LOUISVILLE. Colonel Vennie Fully Recovered — Notes of Owners and Their Many Charges in Training. Louisville. Ky.. April 10. — With the running of the Kentucky Derby, now but four weeks off from the coming Saturday, before this week is concluded there will probably be some good trials recorded by the many candidates which are now in training at the two local tracks. While the weather here has been most disagreeable for several days past, it is not thought that it has to any great extent set back any of tlie various Derby candidates. The two three-year-olds, Colonel Vennie in Jefferson Livingstons stable, and Heir Apparent in Al Rodgers string, wliich were a bit under the weather on account of light sickness back a week ago. are now taking their regular training once more and both are looking good and doing well. Heir Apparent is a fine specimen of a three-year-old and looks like lie will go a long route of ground in good style when thoroughly fit. He is a son of Bines and resembles his sire in bodily conformation, has a clean way of going with indications that he will race well on any kind of a track. Heir Apparents owner is known in the west as the "Potato King" and. it is safe to say, that if this colt and a pair of two-year-olds he now has in training at the Downs, fulfill expectations this season and put him prominently up in the list of winning owners, he will, sooner or later, greatly increase his holding in thoroughbred stock, as he is a lover of good horses and has an abundance of wealth to indulge his fancy in this line. There are a number of turf followers who are pleased to know that Colonel Vennie is now training well again. This high-bred English colt is well liked for the Derby by many good judges owing to his victory last fall in the Walden Stakes at Pim-lico. Md.. wliich event was at a mile and in which he curried 122 pounds, which is five pounds more than he will be asked to carry in the Derby. In that stake he defeated Foxhall Keenes noted filly Puss in Boots, which is regarded by her owner so highly that he has sent her across the ocean to fill her engagement in the New Oaks. A two-year-old that can win at a mile at that age must always be given respect in the Derby. This is a feat that Donerail performed when he was of the sair." age. and then he came on the following spring and defeated Ten Point in the big race at the Downs. The fact that Ten Point had won this same stake in 1912 had much to do with making him favorite for the Kentucky Derby of his year. It may be well enough to note that rightfully Colonel Vennie is now entitled to a big prestige among Derby candidates, as in his win of the Walden Stakes he carried ten pounds more than Ten Point had up when the latter won this same race. Jockey J. Callahan has arrived here and is now with tlie stable of trainer W. Martin at Douglas Park, the horses of which he will pilot this year. Callahan came from his home in Maryland, where he has recently been making some expensive improvements to his property there. He sold out his interest in the business he had in El Paso last winter and from now on this year will devote his entire attention to his profession. He is one of the old timers now riding that still has skill as a jockey, he having scored a credit of 51 wins in the 288 mounts he had last year, his percentage of winning mounts being ahead of many of the other popular riders of horses of today. Louis Tauber is well pleased with the condition if his good selling plater Chartier. wliich bids fair to be as good this year as ever before in his racing career. He looks unusually strong and lusty and apparently his winter rest done him a world of good. He was turned out all winter at starter Harry Morrisseys farm near Lexington and was not taken up until Tauber recently arrived here from New Orleans with his speedy sprinter Bring -hurst. These are two handy horses and the Louisville trainer will probably have a prosperous season on the Kentucky circuit tracks with this pair of good racers. W. F. Schulte is having trained in the stable of W. Buekner two promising youngsters in the bay filly Twinkle Toes, by Jim Gaflfney — Queen Eleanor, and Sir Wellons. a chestnut colt by Jim Gaffney — Dine-mock. He has this pair well engaged in the stakes on the Kentucky circuit tracks and they are two youngsters that have so far trained well. Queen Eleanor, the dam of Twinkle Toes, is by The Elector — Queen Lute, the dam of King Olympian. Sir Wellons dam. Dinemock, is a daughter of Hammock, a son of Hanover. Buekner has three other quite promising two-year-old fillies in his charge. One. a bay named Sophia Gatewood. is a sister to Wilhite; another is Duchess of Lizwell, a chestnut filly that is a sister to Infidel The other is a bay filly by Nealon — B.igsiiot, wliich has been named Fancy Shot. The only old horses he has in charge are J. B. Naylor. Flossie Walker and Brave, the latter being the only horse in training at present that is owned by W. G. Yanke. He has been turned out all winter and was only recently taken up and placed in training. Buekner wintered his stable at Churchill Downs and has been in the barn he now occupies there with his string since last fall. Reports from Lexington sjieak exceedingly well of the spring training of tlie two three -year-olds Kinney and Jack ODowd, in the stable of T. P. Hayes, both of which are candidates for the Kentucky Derby. Kinney belongs entirely to Hayes, but Jack ODowd is owned by P. J. Millett. the Bourbon County turfman, whose horses are always trained by Hayes. According to these reports both these three-year-olds show high development from last year and have gone through the long winter without ti.e slightest of sickness or even minor mishaps in their training. They are. as a consequence. forward in condition and are expected by their trainer to both be starters in the coming Derby. There are nineteen horses in training in the racing Stable of John W. Schorr now quartered at Douglas Park. Thirteen of these jire three-year-olds and over, one- of which. Dick Williams, is an eligible to the Kentucky Derby and that gelding, as well as Ellison, another three-year-old, is engaged in tlie Iitonia Derby. The six two-year-olds in the string embrace his winter winner, the filly Gretchen B.. and tiie following five youngsters, all of wliich. with but one exception, are colts: Frank Coleman, b. c. by Peep oDay — My Gyps. Ceo. C. Love. b. c. by Peep oDay — Evaline. Harry Kelly, ch. c. by Ultimas — Woodland. Pen Rod. b. c. by Helmet — Gunwad. Lidy Bennett, b. f. by Ormondale — Arthesia. Of these Harry Kelly was bred by Mr. Schorr, while ;eo. C. Love and Frank Coleman were secured by him when weanlings from their breeder. I. S. Barbee. He bought Pen Ro.l from E. It. r.radley and Lady Bennett from George C. Bennett. in whose name the latter is engaged in several stakes on the Kentucky circuit tracks. Schorr has in the last few days turned down an offer of 0,000 for his four-year-old Ed Crump, the tender being made by H. Perkins, the trainer who recently purchased Dr. Larriek and Bob Hen-sley from E. O. Elkin. These two hors"s have now arrived here and are quartered at Douglas Park. The man Perkins is training for is a new addition to the turf and is credited with the desire to secure a high lass racing stable. He is a wealthy citizen of St. Louis and is reported to have paid ,500 for tne two he secured from Elkin. It is said that. seeing no chance to purchase a Kentucky Derby eligilde for any moderate sum of money, he made the offer for Ed Crump, believing that colt a good investment, and by securing him his colors could be worn in the Kentucky Handicap this spring. Among the other older horses in the Schorr siahie now i:i training here are David Craig. Mars Cassidy. Syrian. Ceo. Beuscii. Lindenthal. Goldcrest Boy and Brownstone. He also has still in training the three-year-old Brizz. which he purchased last year from Main Coldblatt. Quite a band of the Schorr horses will lie sent to Lexington to race this spring. Harry Kclly is expected to carry his colors in the Breeders Futurity. Horsemen that have arrived here with their stables from Hot Springs report tiiat jockey D. Stirling, who is in the hospital there from an injury in a recent race, is In a fair way to soon entirely recover from his injuries, but news is not so cheering far jockey V. liourley. who was injured in a race. It is feared now. even if the latter lives to get out of the hospital, he will never be in a fit mental condition to ride again. It api»ears that the Lack pari of his skull was caved in by the fall, or some horse in going over him struck him in the head.
