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BANK WILL START IN THE DERBY. Texas Colt Is Fast and Hay Stay as Well — George J. Longs Fine Two-Year-Olds. Louisville. Ky.. May 3. — As the races progress at Ix-xington three-year-olds have shown good form there that are eligible to the Kentucky Derby. The latest to show notable racing speed is the Texas-bred colt Bank, which is the only representative in the big race from the Lone Star State. Trainer B. N. Vestal, who has I. E. Clarks colt in charge, will probably ship Bank here before the meeting is over at Lexington and give him a final trial for the big race early in the coming week. In spite of muddy conditions at Churchill Downs today, making the course extremely slow, the Kentucky IHrby candidates Star Hawk and The Cock, worked the Derby distance of one mile and a quarter in 2:17Vr. and were pulled up at one mile and three-eighths in 2:33. The fractions were: 14!;,. 28. 42. 55%, 1:08.-.. 1:22V.1.. 1:3«, 1:49%. 2:03%. Star Hawk, with P. Ixiwdor up, made the pace. Both colts came out of the work in good condition and will no doubt be ready for a final trial as soon as track conditions are favorable. The Derby candi-dat; Lena Misha. has arrived here in good condition from Lexington and will be a certain starter in the big race on May 13. It is said that it is now a certainty that Bank will go to the post in the Derby and in all prob-abality H. Shilling will have the mount on him. His recent race at Lexington shows that his Juarez form of last winter was all his stable lias claimed lor him. The fact that he is a grandson of Back Sand indicates that his breeding, although foaled in Texas, which state produces mostly sprinters, is no bar to his being able to stay the Derby route of ground. Some good judges have objected to Bank on account of his peculiar action, which is decidedly awkward when going even at half rate speed. It was through this, however, that Col. W. E. Apple-gate, an excellent judge of horses, said when he first saw him that he believed Bank would stay any distance. He based this opinion on the fact that he had owned a horse in Prince McClurg which ran just as Bank does. It was with Prince McClurg that Colonel Applegate in 1S99 won both the Latonia Derby and St. Louis Derby, two races each at a mile and a half in distance. He has always thought that the son of Wadsworth would have won the Kentucky Derby that year also had he been engaged in it. It is a sightly -looking band of two-year-olds that trainer Pete Coyne is educating this spring for the Louisville turfman Jeorge J. Long. He has ten of these youngsters now at the Downs course, as follows : Hemlock, b. c. by Jim Gaffney — Onadere. Phocion. b. c, by Sempronius — Eloisa. Kenward. ch. c. by Alvescot — Bashford Belle. Arrow, b. f. by Sir Huon — Foursome. Lycia. b. f. by Sempronius-«-Embellish. Kagura. ch. f, by Alvescot — Illustrious. Katahdin. b. g. by Alvescot — Ameeras. Adelia. ch. f, by Sir Huon — Boema. Dahlia, b. f. by Sempronius — Fleoika. Bay colt by Sempronius — Hamira. It is a great band of foals that are being dropped at Mr. Longs Bashford Manor Farm this spring by the horse Free Lance. This turfman owns several yearlings by this Latonia Derby winner of 1912. which are the first of his get. but none of these were as foals anything like the crop by him that are appearing this spring. Mr. Long has great hopes of Free Lance as a sire and looks for him to soon reproduce himself in the stud. This year some of the best mares at Bashford Manor Farm have liecn mated with him. Ralph, in the baas string at the Downs, is doing as well as possible tiiis spring for trainer I. Cohen. He is going slowly with him and, to ail appearances at present. Kalph will be one of the comebacks of the turf this year. Of all the high-formed horsfs that have been at the Downs this spring none outlook this horse, which beat Hodge s» easily in the Fort Thomas Handicap at Latonia in 1913. That was the last race Ralph wore colors in. He is now five years old. The Oaks candidate in this stable; Kathleen, is also training extra well. Henry McDaniel. in writing to his brother Will here, says that after May 20, when the Thorncliffe Stable is sold he will be temporarily, anyway, out of the training business for the first time In many years. It may be that such a capable trainer is not likely to be long disengaged should he desire to connect himself with another stable. It is more than probable, however, that his next venture will be with a string of his own horses, in which way he was following the business when he contracted to train the ThornclifTe Stable. Henry McDaniel has for many years now been one of the most prominent and successful trainers on the American turf, and has saddled some of the most brilliant stars that ever raced in this country. The greatest single success he ever achieved was probably when he won the American Derby with E. J. Baldwins colt Key el Santa Anita, and defeated in that race Senator Grady and Domino. Aside from his fciod work in the lust two years with the Thorncliffe St able McDaniel had great success some years previous] v with the stable owned by the Kentucky turfman". It. L. Thomas, for whom he developed some brilliant stake winners. He is one trainer that has never known a really bad year on the turf with any stable he has had in charge. He is also the turfman that developed that skillful jockey C. II. Shilling. J. B. CamplMll has the stake blanks for the Niagara Kacing Association stakes, which he is distributing at the local tracks here. These events close this year on Tuesday, May 9. Four of them are to be run at the first meeting at Fort Erie next summer.
