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LENA MISHA WINNING MANY FRIENDS. Slipshod Released from Work Temporarily — No Word Concerning Other Whitney Candidates. Louisville. Ky:. April 2S. — Considering track conditions quite encouraging was the work of the Beverwyck Stahb s candidate for the Kentucky Derby at the Downs last Thursday, when he galloped the iu He in 1:45% handily. This sightly -looking son of King James has won many friends since his arrival from the east and is. at present, showing as much improvement in his work as any of the many Derby candidates now in training. One great advantage this colt has over some of the other supposed chief contenders is the fact that he was raced but little as a two-year-old and. as a consequence, has reached his present development without having his jx.wers in any way weakened by it strenuous campaign as a two-year-old. There seems to l»e no question among good judges that I,ena Misha will stay over a Derby route, while the fact that lie was able to win as a two-year-old, a race like the Juvenile Stakes, proves that he has an abundance of speed. His owner. F. J. Nolan, has for years been a liberal patron of racing and all turfmen will no doubt be gratified to p-arii that his good-looking chestnut colt is now doing such good training for the big race. A. K. MacomVr"s Derby candidates worked today at the linens as follows: Star Hawk and Hesperus, working together, one mile in 1:45*-; fractions. 12%. 25. 37-.. 50%. 1:03%. 1:18%. 1:32. The Cock, a mile in 1:46: fractious. 12%. 25%. 38%, 51%. 1:06. 1:19%. 1:32%. Track conditions are much improved and the course will l e fast by tomorrow. As yet no definite news has coiiip from the eastern division of II. P. Whitneys stable, and the belief Is still prevaleal that there is no change ill Howes plans ami Hint the pick of the cracks he is training for the Derby, which embrace Thunderer. Dominant. Chicle. Bromo. Clapperbill and Hunsa. will arrive at the Downs along with the champion filly Regret, about May 1. Slipshod, the member of the Whitney stable that has been in the care of trainer Albert Simons here, has been let up in his work temporarily, having a few days since developed osselets. It is understood that five of the members of J. E. Maddens stable that wintered here and have remained all spring, will bo sent to Hamburg Place to stay until next fall. If lie decides to race any of his remaining horses now here in Kentucky this spring and next summer, it is reported that" they will be in the stable of S. M. Henderson, the Louisville trainer who owns the good filly Elizabeth McNaughton. The report came to trainer W. C. Clancy at the Downs yesterday that the broodmare Midge had just dropped a fine filly foal by Ultimus at the Wiekliffe Stud. This filly is a sister to Luke Mc-Luke, which won the Kentucky Handicap in 1915, in the Kentucky record time for a mile and a quarter of 2:02%. On account, it is reported, of having developed a hardening of the arteries in one of his legs, it has been decided to withdraw Lltimus from the stud this spring. It is thought in time he will overcome his present affliction, he being yet a young horse. The decorations on the outside covers of the coming book program of the New Louisville Jockey Clubs spring meeting is unusually ornate this year. On one side is a beautiful cut of Regret, the winner of the Kentucky Derby last year, and on the other sire is a cut of the first Kentucky Derby winner, Aristides. Both these cuts are inserted in a frame. The one around Regret is of blue and brown, which represent the colors of that great fillys owner, H. P. Whitney, while the one around the cut of Aristides is the famous McGrath colors, green and yellow. It is all around as hr.ndsome a book program as was ever issued by this or any other racing association. At the closing -out sale last fall of the Elmen-dorf Stud, George J. Long of Bashford Manor Farm secured the richly-bred English mare Mrs. Delaney with little opposition, owing to her being then twenty years old and the belief that, though she was mated to Hessian, there was a doubt about her being in foal. This spring, however, the mare has all along shown signs of being in foal and she is now expected daily to drop a colt or a filly at Bashford Manor Farm, which will be regarded as priceless by her present owner. Mrs. Delaney is the dam of Bight Royal and is the only daughter of the mighty St. Simon that ever was in the stud in Jefferson County. She was brought to this country from England by the late Marcus Daly, who secured her from her English breeder, the Duke of Portland. She is out of Ismay by Isonomy, and her next dam is St. Al-vere, by Hermit. Mrs. Delaney is a sister to the two great English horses. Simon Dale and Darley Dale. The latter won the Eclipse Stakes and Simon Dale was the winner of the Prince of Wales Stakes on the British turf. Hessian is a son of Watercress—Colonial, by the great Australian horse Trenton. In talking over the eld -time racing at the Downs track the other day. W. B. Jennings, who has charge of the big string of English -bred horses owned by A. K. Macomber. mentioned that the first horse he ever owned was one called Alloy, by Alarm out of Geneva. He secured this horse at Moberly, Mo.. Alloy having originally come from the Kentucky stable of James A. Grinstead. The next horse he had was also bred by Grinstead. that lieing Bingen. by Bonnie Scotland. He then secured a half-sister to Blue Eyes from A. Keene Richards and then bought the speedy Pearl Jennings from W. S. Payne. Of course he secured the latter when she was a youngster and unknown to turf fans. He only paid 60 for this mare. Two hundred and fifty dollars of this went to Pa." ne and the extra ten dollars went to a horseman who had told Jennings about the filly.
