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DODGE RUNS A FAST MILE DOES THE BEST GALLOP SHOWN BY ANY OF THE KENTUCKY DERBY HORSES. With the Big Race Only Four Weeks Away Trainers Begin Sending Their Charges Along in Earnest. Louisville. Ky.. April 1".— Four weeks from today tlif Kentucky Derby will lie decided at the Churchill Downs track. i Dodge, with his stable companion. Franklin, today worked the most sensational Derby gallop of the season so far. at Douglas Park. He covered a mile in 1:40%. was being pulled up at a mile and nil eighth in 1 :." ■:.. and cantered out I mile and three-sixteenths in 2:00%. The fractional time of the mile was 12%, 25, 37. 49%. 1:01 %, 1:14%, 1:20%. F. Murphy was on Dodge and J. Callahan on Franklin. Both colts pulled up in fine condition. , At the same course Cosmic worked three-quarters in 1:14% and was pulled up at seven-eighths in 1:32. The fractional time was 12, 23%, 35. «T%, 1:01. Derby work-outs at the Downs were: George Smith Three-quarters in 1:18%. Star Hawk Mile in 1:48b Fractional time: 2.%. Bt%, 1:04%, 1:17%, 1:31%. The Cock worked with him. Fleuro Three quarters in 1:17-.. Ix-na Misha Three-quarters in 1:19%. Frac-tionals: 25, 3S. Rt%, 1 :or.. Big Smoke — Three quarters in 1:20. Fractiouals: 13. 25%. 52%. 1:00%. Hesperus Mile in 1:19. Colonel Vennie Seven eighths in 1:30%. Slipshod — Thr eighths in 38. As training of the Derby candidates has advanced in the last few weeks while some of the many elig-ibles have been dropped out of the event, according to reports by their trainers, the bulk of the stars engaged are still all being prepared with a view to filling their engagement, and it will be no surprise if the starters this year even topped the field of last year, which was the record for the event, embracing, as it did. sixteen starters. The latest from the training Quarters of James ltowe in the east is that Dominant is being specially fitted for his Kentucky Derby engagement und the division of the Whitney stable at the Downs, in charge of trainer Albert Simons, has evidently had instructions to endeavor to put Slipshod on edge to also start in the rich stake. It is now thought that the starter from the stable of A. K. Macomber in the Derby will lie Star Hawk, though both his other entries. Hesperus and The Cock, are doing well in their preparation at the Downs. The brilliant colt George Smith, owned by .lohu Sanford is a sure starter, barring future training accidents. Another easterner certain to go is I.ena Misha in F. .1. Nolans string. Mr. Sanford also has in the race the chestnut gelding St. Isidore, but it is not thought he will start, unless some training mishap occurs to George Smith. If has been many a day ::t the Downs since two lictter looking three-year-olds than Star Hawk and George Smith have been in training there. Doth look like real Derby champions and it is hard to choose which of them is the best type of a high-class three-year-old. None of the I erby candidates in training is doing lietter than .1. S. Wards ten times winner of last year. Dodge, and that colts stable companion, Franklin, is also doing well in training. The eastern stable of W. It. Coe is as yet to arrive at the Downs. He h::s three Derby eligibles to select from and. from all accounts, his colt White Hackle fills the eye and is regarded as of sufficiently high class to meet the many other cracks in the event. There are no less than fifteen of the Derby candidates now in training at the Kentucky .Association track at Ix-xingtou. but it will hardly 1m- known for a couple of weeks yet as to which of these three-year-olds can be set down as sure starters. Since arriving at the Downs. F. J. Nolans Dona Misha. is a Derby candidate that has won a lot of friends by his track appearance and this fine-lookiug son of King James may be quite a factor ill the big ra -e. lie works like a three-year-old that with a few weeks more training will run far. His speed is unquestioned. As yet I.aftouilleur and Esprit Gaulois, C. H. Mackays two three -year-olds that were bred in France, have not arrived here, but from all accounts they an- training satisfactorily in the east With the big stake at the Dowis jn view. During the thirteen days c.f racing at the Downs tills spring, six other stakes will be run. These embrace such as tin- Kentucky Oaks, for three-year-old fillies with ,500 added; the Clark Han dicap, with ,000 .idled: the Frank Fehr Stakes, with .NMI added: the Hash ford Manor Stakes. With ,000 added: the Debutante Stakes, with ,000 added, and the Juvenile Stakes, with .11110 added. The latter three races are all for two-year-olds, the former being for colts and geldings only, and the Debutante for fillies only. There are only six days of racing at the Downs this spring on which no stake race has ban set to lie decided. On these days an extra program in a 1 1 nut ion in the way of overnight races will be given and. as the management is giving in purse races money exceeding in thousands that ever hung up before by any Kentucky track, it is safe to say that Itiany great races will be run on these afternoons.
