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KEENE MAY HAVE A DERBY STARTER. Report That Churchill Will Be Sent to Louisville to Go in the Race. Louisville. Ky.. April 24.— In sending Churchill, as has been announced, to the Downs, to fill his engagement in the Kentucky Derby. Foxhall P. Keene is contributing to interest in that great race, us it marks the first starter from the stable of any member of this noted family of turfmen, in the history of this event. No name lias ever shown on the turf with more luster than that of Ke.-ne. In four years. 1905 -ti -7-8. the late James K. Keene. father of the owner of Churchill, led the winning owners of the American turf in this brief period of time, horses in his colors earned in stakes and purses ,003,927. In 1907 his stable earned the enormous sum of 97,342. which stands as a worlds record. The eaM that Mr. Keene is sending lure to carry his colors in the Derby is probably one of the most promising maiden three -year-olds that ever faced the barrier in the Kentucky Derby. He is a son of Sweep, the winner of the Futurity of 1909. and his dam is the good mare Limp Girl, by Lamplighter. Churchill raced a few times l::st year as a two-year-old. but he was not one of the kind to come to anywhere near his best early and, according to all accounts, he is much improved as a three -year -old. The fact that he is a maiden MM him to get in the Derby with a pull of weight in his favor and. if he is what reports credit him with being, he nuw looms up a dangerous eligible. There has been considerable inquiry lately as to the breeding on the dams side of H. P. Whitneys Derby candidate. Slipshod, which is being prepared for the big stake at the Downs by Albert Simons. The dam of this gelding is Slippers, the dam of Buskin. She is by Meddler and her dam is the wonderful broodmare Cinderella, the dam of the Kentucky Derby winner of 1898, Plaudit, and such other famous racers and sires as Hastings. Handsome. Migraine and ;ieiiheiin. His dam is therefore a half sister to a Kentu- ky Derby winner and produced in ISuskin a Canadian Derby winner; in brooding Slipshod has Derby credentials. With the race now but two weeks off from the coming Saturday, the next few days will see the lM-ginniiig of the tightening up of the various candidates by their trainers. It is a matter of record that in no year previous wore there ever so many throe-year-olds being fitted for this event as this year and, on the whole as an average, the various candidates have trained to date to the satisfaction of the men who have them in charge. There is no question that the race this spring is the most open of any Kent inky Derby run for years. From now on for a week or more work done hero by the Kentucky Derby eligibles will take place ;lt Chan hill Downs, as the four eligibles for the big race which have lieen quart-rod at Douglas Park - Dodge. Franklin. Cosmic and Dick William* — were shipped to Lexington this morning. Derby gallops at tlie Downs today were: Star Hawk and The Cock -One mile and one-eighth together, pulled up. in 2:01: fractions. 12-.. 28%, |8%, 51%, 1*4%, 1:18%, 1:33.-., 1:47. Hesperus Mile and an eighth cantering, in 2:01 %; fractions: 13. 88%, 88%, 88%, 1:05. 1:19%. 1:33--,. 1:47. George Smith Mile in 1:12--,: fractions: 12%, 25. 87%, 88%, 1:03%. 1:17 r.. 1:30%. Pockiel..M -Mile ;md an eighth in 1:59%: fractions: 12%. 25. 37. 49%. 1:03%. l:l»i%. 1:30%. 1:44%: his last mile was run in 1:47. AY. C. Webers geed two-year-old Waremore has hM8 taken by Kay Spenee to Lexington to compete with Kentuckys cr;:ck youngsters. Investigation proves that Waremore is not short bred on the dams side, as many turfmen had supposed. He is not only stoutly bred, but his dam traces to a Bruce UM origin. He is out of Graeic Could, by Rogis-ter. son of Y...||and Kanee. by Inform. His second dam. Vaila P.. is by Havre, a son of Ten Broeck — Cuba, by Au-tralian. The next dam is Visitor, by [fospodar, which liorse was by Longfellow and a half-brother to the successful sire. King Alfonso. The next dam is Invicta. by Yictoria. and from theatre lie traces eleven more crosses, all of Knglisli breed, to the f.-inmu- Merlin marc. On the sir.- side he is of the King Alfonso strain of biood and the Bonnie Scotland line. Trainer John Walters has moved his stable, which is made up of the hanjea owned by the Canadian turfman George M. Hendrie. over to Douglas Park from hurehill Dowaa. His reason for making this move is that, with the exeeption of Handier, he has none of his string as yet near to a race. In all probability this good four-year-old will do a bit of racing ::t Churchill Downs this spring, but trainer Walton thought that he could bring him back to the Downs track whenever lie wanted to run him and would then have his stable settled at the Douglas Park track for the meeting tlc-re. The string of Williams Pros, at Lexington and here at Douglas Park is. in aaabera, the most extensive this firm has raced as yet on the Kentucky taacks. They have no le s than eighteen horses in the two divisions of this stable, all of which will probably take part in the various races at the coming spring meeting at the Downs. The string cmbr.o es Hi"h Horse. Disturber. Impressive. Important. Intention. Jocular. Joval. Jevinel. Justy. J. Hies. January. Jargon, Ui.il . Jason. Jurisdiction. Jarue. .lubal and Junier. With the exemption of the first five all of their string are two-year-old*. All .-round the youngster* in this stable are the most promising this firm has ever had in training and tlioi virtually constitute the entire production of their Oklahoma thoroughbred stock farm. None of the now big stable of It. D. Mackenzie will be taken to Ijextagton hjr trainer J. D. Ad-kins. II.- does not think auj of his older horses arc up to their beat racing form and he is making no effort to get them tightened up for a supreme test until tin e.miiiig meeting at the Downs. The two -j ear-ohls from California that are now in this stable will hardly be able to do much racing before mid-summer. Trainer Dan Lehan is taking ten horses to Lexington and in the same ear with him R. J. Powers has two horses. Lelmn is sure to start Middleton and Jones good filly I.ady Always in the Ashland Oaks and expects this daughter of Peter Quince to win that event. Lehan won this race with Broniewing in 1914. Kay Spenee will race eight horses at Lexington, namely: Blarney, Waremore, Pommauretta, Olga Star. Hoenir. F. C. Cole. High Seer and Thanksgiving. E. J. OConnell will also take Carrie Orme there to race and is also looking after Charles Hawks mare Louise Paul. Polistena. J. W. Wingfields four-year-old English-bred filly, which may make her debut here in the Clark Handicap, is perhaps more like the great mare Souffle than any other member of her sex which has ever been quartered at either of the local tracks, she is more than sixteen and a half hands high and Souffle only lacked a quarter of an inch of being seventeen hands. Both are the same color, beautiful bays, and Polistena has all the fine quality that made Souffle so marked in her time. The latter great mare won the three great filly races in 1888, namely, the Kentucky. Oakley and Latouia Oaks. Her race, for the first time in the spring of lS9tt, at Churchill Downs, previous to her start in the Kentucky Oaks, will never be forgotten by horsemen. She met the great colt First Mate and he went to the post an odds-on favorite, while the odds against here was twenty to one. She defeated him with perfect ease. So far Polistena has done all that trainer George Strate has asked her in her preparation at the Downs, if she runs like she looks she will surely cut a big figure in Kentucky racing this year. IxW Marion has nothing to take to Lexington to race this sprii.g. He is going slowly with all his horses, especially Prince Hermis, but he anticipates that horse will lie fit and ready to meet his engagement in the Clark Handicap. Though he is now six years old he appears to lie as good as ever and. in fact, even looks more robust than he did at this time in his training last year. The Cincinnati turfman Jake Marklein has seven horses in his barn at Douglas Park. The older members are the trio of three-year-olds Hornberger. Mike Mullen and "Bill" Wiley, the latter being named for a popular Cincinnati newspaper editor, while the other members ofthe string are all two-year-olds. Three of these were bred in Missouri and are by Mentor.
