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BEGINNING TO SPEED UP AT LEXINGTON. Several Kentucky Derby Candidates Among Those Working Over the Old Time Track. Lexington. Ky.. March 1!9. —A bright though windy morning saw many horses out t a- gallops over the Kentucky Association coutse. wdiie-h was in fair coaditk n. The impression gathered ly observers is that tin locally trainee! ! orscs will be- ready wbea the spring meeting opens, eke month beace. The Derby candidates were all oa the tracU". Skeptic -he. wed tkree-qaartera in 1:28%; Waterford the- e ighths in 1 :10-.-.. T. C. McDowell** horses were all worked, the fastest being I.atonias five-eighths in 1:09%; 1 ri mount, five-eighth* in 1.08%; Manager Waite, thiee-ipiurters in 1:18%. Other Derby candidates figures were: Duford. rive-eighth* in 1:00, and Westy Hogan. five-eighths in 1:10--.. Chalmers showed Joe S. Haw kills frre-eighths in 1 :0s. .,,,,1 Jeffery and Winnie ODny worked along at ahoat the same lick. Derby Candidates Training Satisfactorily. W. J. Young and Phil T. China were among the visitor*. Their horses are at Louisville and doing well. Young reports that the Derby candidates Midway and Trevheo are training satisfactorily, Midway having run three uaarter* in 1:17. pulling up at seven -e ighths in 1:32. The two year-old colt by Broomstick Christmas Star, which Young j; training for Kenneth Alexander, is considered one of the fastest of his age in the state ami has worked the Churchill Downs comse a qaarter better than 28, Peter Wiiinie • has taken up four two-year-olds from Hamburg Place, belonging to John F. Madden. Ham Kee ne will be here .-.it in day morning from Hot Springs with his horse*, Basil llcrz lift today for Louisville, after having arranged to have Manister Ted Shipped to trailer J. J. Fl.innigan a! Douglas Park, when he arrives here with Jefferson Livingstons horses from Hot ftps lags "I saw that one at Hot Springs." said K. I.. Baker to Hers, "and I want to tell you he might win the Kentucky Derby. He looks like a real good colt to me." Mary Talbott, dam of White- Hackle, has a chestnut filly b.v Hock View. This is the first foal of the year fat Gallahcr Brothers. »
