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SIX ENTIRELY SOUND DERBY CANDIDATES. Macombers Trio. George Smith, St. Isidore and Lena Misha All Meeting Every Requirement. Ixmisville. Ky.. April 20. — At least six candidates for the Kentucky Derby arc training most satisfactorily at present at the Downs, and in this number are certainly from three to four sure starters in the Mg race. The horses alluded to are Star Hawk, The Cock and Hesperus, in A. K. Macombers stable: George Smith a:id St. Isidore, in John Sanfords string, ami Lena Misha. the standard bearer of the BevervvycU Stable of F. .L Nolan. Every one of this imlf dozen racing stars is meeting every expectation of their trainers and not one of the entire" colled ion. in their Derby prepar.it ion have at any time shown the least sign of any soreness or lameness. In fait it would be hard to find »-ix young horses training as soundly for any race. l ena Misha is gradually winning friends to his standard. This si.n of King James seems to have as much speed as any three-year-old in training. What he does is with the utmost ease and he comes out of every gallop, to all appearances, a much better seasoned young horse. Star Hawk apjiears now to be the favorite of the MacomlxT trio. He is a colt of so much quality that has even won over those who first objected to him on account of him lieing a bit under size, as - compared to his stable companion. The Cock. One thing of great interest to the rail birds is the fact that it is likely that never lieforc were six three- ear-oIds in training for the Derby at the Itowns. which were reckoned to be as valuable property as this half dozen. At the lowest calculation the present money value of the six horses makes an easy total of 00,000 and. in fact, they could not actually be bought now for even that huge amount. Some speedy works have lately been reeled off by many racers in training at the Downs that are other than Derby candidates. These include: Milo — Five-eighths in l:02i; fractions, 11%, B%, 35V:.. 4K-.,. Belgian Trooper — Three -quarters in 1:19,;,; half mile in 52%. Pleiades— Half mile in 52; tliree-cigbths iii 38; Sunbonnet worked with her. Hodge — Three-eighths ill 40%. Hit of Blue— Half mile in 51 M-.. Luzzi — Half mile in 50%; three-eighths ill 3C%. Sulla— Half mile in 50%. Love Story — Quarter mile in 24%; Kick In worked with iier. Huntress — Three -quarters in 1:18%; half mile in 50 Vs. Yellowstone — Half mile in 50; three -eighths in 30%. Marse Henry — Half mile in 53%; three-eighths in 39%. Dash — Three-quarters in 1:17%; half mile in 49%. Lady Jane Gray — Half mile in 52. Klizal etli McNaughton — Quarter mile in 20%; one-eighth in 12%. Old Koenig — Three-eighths in 39. Hubbub— Half mile in 51%: three-eighths in SS1:.. Ijongfellow — Quarter mile in 27; has began taking good work. Temptation — Three-eighths in 37; Diversion worked with her. The good four-year-old filly Tory Maid has indicated that she will not stand further training and her part owner. S. M. Henderson, has transferred his interest in the young mare to J. E. Madden. She will be shipped to Hamburg Place and retired to the stud. J. E. Harrod. who is establishing a thoroughbred breeding stud at his Stoddard Ranch at Woodstock, Kans., is here getting together some horses to ship there. He has bought from Joe Hubbard the well-known horse Crackerbox; also Milo from W. H. Buckner. which he will endeavor to race again in the west. One mare lie secured here is Old Proverb, he buying her from Joe Hubbard, and lie is also about to purchase from A. L. Aste the horse Jack Point, the sire of Teu Point. He has also secured two broodmares at St. Louis, and will get sufficient for a carload during his present stay in Kentucky. He left for Lexington Wednesday evening to close a deal for Ten Points sire. Hiding Belle, tiie dam of King Belle, trainer Dick Brooks highly-tried two-year-old filly at the Downs, never had but one foal previous to this filly. That was the colt that is now a three -year -old and was purchased as a yearling, along with Dodge and Franklin, by trainer J. S. Ward. The latter was never able to get the colt to the races, but report has it that, as a yearling, he really showed better than Dodge or Franklin. Trainer Brooks now talks ?s if he will make no effort to race King Belle before the first of June. He unfortunately failed to enter this promising filly in any stakes 011 the Kentucky circuit tracks this spring. Her sire. King Olympian, is dead, and probably the only other two-year-old in training by him on the Kentucky tracks is the colt De Land, owned by John Cranor. King Olympian was a son of Olympian, which ran second to Ballyhoo Bay in the Futurity of 1100 and was a son of Domino — Belle of Maywood. the dam of Tenr.y. King Olmpians dam was Queen Lute by Kingfisher, she being a half-sister to the Suburban Handicap winner Beldame. Gliding Belle, herself a good race mare, is of the Hanover line of blood. To date King Belle has exhibited more speed in her training this spring than any filly developed at the local tracks, unless it l e Triolet, in the stable of George Wingfield. Some admirers in fact of King Belle are bold enough to say that she is the best filly, as a two-year-old. developed at Churchill Dowiis since the days of Bound the World. Brooks is being besieged with offers for King Belle and the tenders for her have already gone up into the thousands.
