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ADVANCING IN TRAINING FAVORABLE WEATHER HELPS DERBY HORSES IN THEIR PREPARATION. George Smith and the Macomber Trio of Importod Colts Excite Admiration — Grovcr Hughes Working Fast. I— li i Till . Ky., April 13. — The ninny three-year-olds iii training .it tin- two local tracks for the Kentucky Derby have all been taking a rest since tlieir Tuesday gallops. Their trainers have since confined tlieir preparation to slow cantering exercise of a mile ami a half or more anil are, apparently, getting them ready for another £ood gallop l.y the coming Saturday or Sunday. MM Sanfords l erliy candidate, Ocorge Smith, ha: won many admirers since lie landed at the Downs. He looks like a typical Derby colt and. while not seen as yet in strong action, has impressed onlookers as a colt possessing all the high ;ualitics ,f the top-notch Derby crack. This Amsterdam. N. V.. turfman also has his gelding St. Isidore in the Derby, but that hores does not impress horsemen as by any means of the same type M his royal-looking stable sompanion. It is probable that St. Isidore will only carry the Snufoi-d colors in the Derby, in the event that anything goes wrong with QM|I Smith iu his training. The three Derby candidates of A. K. Macomber have also pleased the eyes of good judges among the horsemen. Star Hawk is. as compared with He. perns, a bit under size, but is a colt of grand proportions and hloodlikc in his apiiearanco. Baa-Ihtiik looks like he will develop into a champion some day and is all around as good looking a three-year-old as there is now in training. His taking appearance suggests his royal breeding, coming as he does from a Derby winner as his sire and an Oaks winner for his dam. The Cock, the other Macomber three-year-old that is a Derby eligible, is a bit high on his legs, but he is a stout -built, serviceable-looking colt, one of the kind that generally improves greatly as they take on age. Trainer Walter Jennings, who has charge of the Macomber stable, is living out opposite the track at Churchill Downs so he can, at all times. 1m- in constant touch with the great racing string he now has in his charge. Mr. Macomber, who now l ears the distinction of owning the greatest array, of imported English-bred horses ever trained in this country iu one stable, is a staunch admirer of the harness horse, but, of his choice, he prefers the thoroughbred and that explains the reason he is now embarked in racing. The veteran gelding, Orovc-r Hughes, which is now eight years old, showed Wednesday the most speedy work so far done at the Downs this spring. He covered the first quarter iu 24. reached the half in 491.1, anil ran out the thn e-quarters in 1:15. The work indicated that age has apparently not dulled his speed, and he will again prove a handy racing tool for .1. Imensetter on the Kentucky tracks. If he continues to improve, as is now expected of him. his owner will ship him to l exiugton when the meeting o|h-iis there. Other geod work-outs at the I*owns were: Billows, three-quarters in 1:10-.-. : first half mile iu 50... liapid worked with him. The latter filly is a Kentucky Oaks eligible. Sister Kiley Three-eighths in IIS. lted loud -Half mile in lit1.. Iady Always Throe-eighths in 37%. Hocnir — Half mile in Ml Elisabeth McNaiighton Quarter mile in 23%. Suiiflash — Half mile in 52. Fizer - -Quarter mile in 25-—. All the Corrignn and McKinney two-year-olds are going along well in their work at the Downs, but none of them has been sent quarters better than 215 In the last few days. Trainer W. C. Clancy, however, is gradually leading several tip to fast work within the coming week. Fight head of two-year-olds, purchased in California by It. .1. Mackenzie from A. 1!. Spreckels. are expected daily at the Downs to join the stable of trainer Jack Adkins. which is now quartered there. ihe latter lucked them out when he visited Napa Stock Farm recently and a few days ago the Canadian turfman made a deal for the entire band. They are mostly fillies and. when done racing, -will be used in the stud as mates to Mr. Mackenzies Buckhorn. J. Imensetter has traded his richly-bred young mare Whims to trainer O.-orgc Strate. in charge of i go Wingfields horses, for a two-year old by Joe Carey. Strate has shipped Whims, which is a daughter of Ogden Caprice, to Nevada to he retired to the stud. Tin colt Imensetter secured has, as yet. had little training, but looks like a promising racing prospect. Dr. C. C.inn. who. at one time, was paddock judge at Churchill Downs, Douglas Dark and La-toma, was recently selected by the Kentucky Association, at l.eiugton. for tin- same position I this spring and was at the Downs yesterday. lie hits taken up his residence at l-xiugtou and his veterinarian business he has transferred there from this city. He reported, while here, that John Cuiid, the Lituoia Derby winner of 11*14. had gone wrong iu his training and would probably not In- able to race on any of the Kentucky tracks this spi-in_-or iu the coming summer. 1reston ltareh, trailer of the John Sanford stable of horses here, is a son of the veteran eastern trainer. W. 1. Lurch, who began his career on the turf in his native state. South Carolina, many years ago. but is still an active trainer of horses, in spite of the fact that he recently celebrated his seventy first birthday. It was for this turfman that the speedy Kurcli was named. |
