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CHURCHILL DOWNS PURSE PROGRAM. p Book About Ready for Distribution Shows Great Provision for Kentucky Derby Day. Louisville Ky.. April 27. — Racing Secretary W. II. Pfare-e has completed the conditions of the overnight purse races for the eoniing thirteen days of racing at Churchill Downs and the liook program, now in press, will lie ready for distribution early the coaling week. He lias arranged the conditions of the overnight purses and handicap* up to six races a day. leaving the seventh to be put on the program from day to day. This is done so that in giving this extra race it can be so conditioned that it will fill daily, regardless of weather ami track conditions. The races lie has arranged, which cover all but the seventh, making five overnight races on stake days and six on the afternoons that no such events are run. These have been arranged in distance as follows: Two at a half mile: ten at four and a half far: longs: thirteen at five-eighths: one at five and a half furlongs: nineteen at three -quarters: two at one mile; two at a mile and seventy yards; ten at a mile and a sixteenth: ten at a mile and an eighth: four at a mile and three-sixteenths, and five at a mile anil a quarter. This makes, with the extra race each afternoon and counting the seven stakes, a total of ninety -one races programmed for the thirteen days. Oil Derby Day. the New LoaisvUle Jockey Club, for the seven races set for that afternoon, offers the DUUi of 4,400 in added money, which is the greatest afternoons card in value as yet ever run on any Kentucky track. The program for Derby Day follows: First Race — Purse 00, for maiden two-year-old fillies; one-half mile. Second Race Handicap purse JS800, for three-year-olds and over; three -quarter mile. Third Race Purse 00. for two-year-old colts and geldings; four and a half furlongs. Fourth Race — Handicap purse $ soo. for three-ysar old and over, one ami one-eighth miles. A Fifth Race— The Kentucky Derby, with 0,000 added, for three-year-olds; one mile and a quarter. Sixth Race — Selling purse 00. for four-year-old and over: one mile and a sixteenth. Seventh Race — Purse 00; conditions to be announced later. On account of the sudden severe change in the weather ;:nd the heavy rains of the last forty -eight hours, there was little fast work done at the local tracks on Wednesday. The Derby horses in training at the Downs were only slowly cantered around the course and soon returned to the stables. The best work through the mud at the Downs on Wednesday was as follows: Hodge — Three-quarters in 1:21%. Blackie Il.iw — Half mile in 55. Little Mother— Three-quarters in 1:20%. Heir Apparent — Three-eighths in 41. Old Koenig — Three -quarters in 1:21, half mile in 51%. five-eighths in 1:0K. Anthonys Last-Quarter mile in 27%. Ieo Skolny — Five-eighths in 1:05%. W. W. Clark Five-eighths in 1:06%. At Douglas Park the fastest work done in the soft going is to the credit of Rancher — three-qjiarters in 1:21. Trainers HugheR and Burch took all the six horses that John Sanford has had at the Downs to Lexington. The Derby candidate in this string, George Smith, will be returned with his stable companions to the Downs immediately after the running of the Camden Handicap. The Sanford stable has the two-year-old Chieftain engaged in the Idle Hour Stakes and the ftlty Scylla In the Hinata Stakes. P.efore leaving for Lexington, trainer Hughes made known that this brajich of the Sanford stable would race at all the Kentucky meetings this spring and next summer. J. E. Madden lias shipped eighteen of the two-year-olds which he wintered at Churchill Downs., to Belmont Park mil will make another shipment to that track the last of the week. The race mare Fancy, that he had an agent purchase Mt the Juarez track this spring from Robert Wil-more of Kansas City, died at the latter place a few days ago. The mare hail been ship| ed from Juarez witli a carload of other horses, but was taken sick on the train and had to lie taken off at Kansas City. She seemed to improve for a day or two. but a relapse ensued and her death followed. From all accounts Madden bought her on account of her superior breeding, she being entirely of English blood. She won many races during her long career on the turf. But two candidates for the Kentucky Derby worked sharply in the heavy going at Churchill Downs today. They were Lena Misha. which, witli P. Lowder up, galloped a mile in 1:45%. The fractions were: 13. 25%, 38%, 51%, 1:04%, 1:18%, 131%. Poekichoo. with C. P.rady up, covered a mile in 1:47. The first seven-eighths were run in 1:31%. The Macomber Derby candidates Hesperus. Star Hawk and The Cock, were held back for better track conditions. All are doing finely in their training. The new fence on the Central Avenue side of the Downs track has been completed and, like all other improvements made at this course, adds to the sightliness of that portion of the plant. It is over five hundred yards long and more than six feet high. H. P. Whitneys three-year-old chestnut filly Adroit, a daughter of Broomstick and out of the Futurity winner Artful, will not be able to stand training and will probably lie shipped in a few days to Brookdnle Farm and retired to the stud. Sin-was an eligible to the Kentucky Oaks, but her owner still has two gjod candidates in that race in Hansa and Regina. Adroit started twice last year, winning on° race and finishing second in her other attempt. She is as promising a young broodmare prospect as any stable possesses. Mrs. Theo Abadie has shipped her good four-year-old filly Ciiitra here and will race her in Kentucky until aba can dispose of her. as she desires to drop out of the racing business, having only the one horse at this time. Chitra had a good winter in Havana, winning four races and finishing second in three of her other starts there. Mrs. Abadie finally intends to again race some horses, but she has in mind buying a few yearlings when she one more concludes to embark in tiie business.
