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DODGE SHOWS WELL AGAIN COVERS THE FULL DERBY ROUTE IN GOOD STYLE WHILE WORKING BY HIMSELF. Franklin Also Gallops the Same Distance in Encouraging Fashion — Skeer Face Expected When the Havre de Grace Meeting Ends. Louisville. Ky., April lO.Tlie many locally trained candidates lor the Kentucky Derby are going along grandly now in their preparation and scarcely one of the great number, which embrace such hoiKfuls as George Smith, Star Hawk. The Cock. Lena Misha. St. Isidore. Slipshod. Dodge. Franklin, Cosmic and Dick Williams never miss their regular training work. Training operations all around are at high tide at present on the two Louisville tracks. The interest shown by the public in the working of the horses hero was never as marked, which is fully illustrated by the immense crowds that each morning throng the courses and participate in the activity of race horse training as rail birds. The most notable work-outs of candidates for the Derby today took place at Douglas Park, where two of the eligibles went the full Derby distance of one mile and a quarter. J. S. Wards Dodge covered the distance in 2:12%, with the fractions as follows: 13%. 25%. 3S. 51. 1:04%, 1:17%. 1:32. 1:44%, 1:57%. His last mile was run in 1:44%. Jockey F. Murphy was up and he was unpaced all the way. J. 8. Wards Franklin ran the mile and a quarter iu 2:12. the fractious being: 13. 26. 39. 51%. 1:04%. 1:16%, 1:30%. 1:44%, 1:57%. He ran the last mile in 1:43%. F. Murphy was up and, like Dodge. Franklin worked alone. J. J Greeners Cosmic worked seven-eighths in 1:32%. with the fractional as follows: 12. 25. 3i» 52%, 1:05. 1:19. He was under restraint all the way and is evidently getting ready for a fast trial at a longer distance in the next few days. Dick Williams in the Schorr stable wont five-eighths iu 1:02%. His fractionals were 12%. 24%, 36%, 50. and he probably will be sent a mile in hits next work-out. All the Derby candidates that worked yesterday over a considerable distance at the Downs, were on the track today and each came out of his gallop in a manner entirely satisfactory to their respective trainers. Bo fur this week there have been many brilliant pieces of work at Churchill Downs, aside from the performances of the Derby candidates. The best works since the last report at this course are as follows: Joe Blair — Half mile in 4S%; first quarter in 23%; three-eighths in 35%. Stur Shooter — Mile in 1:46%; showing much improvement. Miss Jazbot — Half mile in 49%; three -eighths in 35%. Hodgt — Five-eighths in l:00r., breezing; fractionals. 14. 20%. 39 %, 51%. Ralph— Half mile in 52%; three-eighths in 39%. Lady Worthington — Seven-eighths in 1:30%; three-quarters in 1:17. Blarney— Five -eighths iu 1:00; first half mile iu 52. Mary J. — Three-quarters in 1:22. Ghetto Girl — Three-eighths in 30. Plaschke — Quarter mile in 24. Polistona— Three -quarters in 1:18. Little Ford — Half mile iu 51%. Pulled up sore iu the shoulder. W. W. Clark— Mile in 1:52. Itobt. Uodes— Half mile in 50%. Quartz — Three-eighths in 37%. Commaurctta— Mile in 1:40%. Olga Star worked witli her. Prince S. — Three-eighths in 41%. Uluck Coffei — Seven-eighths in 1:30%; first three-quarters in 1:15%. Belgian Trooper — Three-quarters in 1:17. Silesia — Three-eighths in 37%. Pretender — Five-eighths in 1:07%. Burchau worked with him. Many of the two-year-olds in training at l oth Churchill Downs anil Douglas Park are now break -. ing from the harrfer for their trial and sprint away from that device around quarters shading 21 and liaives in many instances .better than 50. So far at tne Downs no two-year-old has worked in us sensational time as is credited to Harry Kelly and Sedam at Douglas Park. It is the general opinion, however, that there are some youngsters at the former course capable of doing everything as yet done by any of the two-year-old cracks in the stable quarters at Douglas Park. While lately the big two-year-old string of .1. K. Madden has shown constant and steady improvement, none of the members has as yet scored a half in better than 50. This was done by a bay Marta Santa colt that is. iH-rhaps, a bit farther advanced in preparation than some of his others. His Breeders Futurity candidate. Petrograd. which he bought from J. K. Camden, lias so far shown nothing sensational iu Ma work. At Douglas Park several two-year-olds in the stable of trainer It. Williams are working unusually well ami. in all probability, they will soon break out of the maiden class this spring. The most promising of his band are conceded to be James, Jovial. Justify and Jason, and they all can run fast. C. W. Wilson has arrived here to look after the training of his two-year-old Sand Blue, which is quartered at the Downs. He has recently disposed of Glomer to F. W. Foster and that horse has been snipped to Foster at the Havre de Grace track in Maryland. Wilsons one-time noted horse. Ivan Gardner, which was a winner of the Palmetto Derby at Charleston. S. C. is now one of the sires owned by the Kentucky Breeding Bureau. It is understood here that at the close of the Havre de Grace meeting. W. B. Venns Kentucky Derby candidate, Skeer Face, will tea sent here to fill liis engagement in that race. Skeer Face is the three-year-old that was entered by George Wingfield in the Kentucky Derby and sold by his trainer, George titrate, at New Orleans last winter to the French lady who now owns him. This son of Hippodrome won bis first start in Maryland last Tuesday and. though it was only five-eighths, he raptured the race in easy style, showing fine sj.e.-d throughout. It is known that he has always worked and raced like ;i staying colt and. if as I reported, trainer 1!. F. Carman has concluded to bring him to the Downs, he is sure to have quite a following. Any io|t showing form sufficient to cause his purchase to he made for as much as SN.ttoo. must lx- onceded as having at least an outside chance to win any race. Traiuer C. U. Hughes, while having beeu spoken to by II. C. Hallenback sometime ago in regard to training a western division of his stable, has had such negotiation held up owing to the sickness of this eastern turfman, which has prevented him from closing a deal for several horses which he had under negotiation at the time he was taken ill. These, if lie finally bar/a them, will be the horses trainer Hughes will race on the Kentucky tracks this spring and next summer in the colors of this turfman.
