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DERBY CANDIDATES WORKING STEADILY. Wickliffc Stables rive Showing Well in Exercise — Ticket Goes a Mile in Good Style. By C. A. Krgin. Iuisvillc. Ky.. April 1. Trainers of Kentucky Derby candidates at the local race tracks an- beginning to 1 -t their rhnrges step along, and quite i few of the three-year olds have shown by their trials that they are not far from being ready for the big race, although tin- date of its running is ..v.-r a month in the future. The Corrigaa and htc-Kinney quintet of eligihles. Acabado, Conduit, Swan Song. Assume and Vague, are doing well in their work, ami al! show the result of careful and patient braining. Taday Acabado ami Bwaa Song were sent sev en-ighths in 1:31, ami they ran in a manmr tiiat convinced the critics that they are as far advanced as any of the other aspirants lor tin- big prize. Vague and Assume have been working thrae-qaaurters around the 1 ::M mark, while Conduit has « ■ a mile in 1:17. The ether dny they were all measured, when it was found that Conduit is the tallest, being sixteen hands and two inches. The filly Measure a 7:!-.. inches around tin- girth. Acabado la sixteen hands ami one Inch and measures serentj one inches. Swan Song is the Mnallesi of the band, being but fifteen hams ind tw inches, with a girth measurement of seventy inches. Andrew Milhrs Derby eligible Ticket was for the fir-t tine- sent .: Mile aad the celts easy WSJ of running impressed the apeetatara. He went the listanee under a pail in 1 :.._. knh i-Noor. which is S. I., arsons Deity hope, went a rattling good three-quarters in 1:21. Other creditable work-outs included tin- following: Peter .lav. seven -eight lis :,i !:::7: Sol Gilsey, three-quarters in 1:17%; De ■ ■• Mil Milkman, three-ipiai tors in 1 :!*.»: Geo. C. Lore, tfaree-qaarters in 1:18; and Crack oDay an I lop o the Ware, five eighths in l:it;. Franklin Woiking Weil at Louisville. The lust work out of the ilay. aside from that of the Dei by colts, was shown by .1. S. Wards four-year-old Franklin, which rat tied off three quarters in 1:1.".. Tins took place at Doimlas Park, and it Is the best time made at this distance this year. The stable of a. 1.. Bogera has arrived at the Downs from Hot Springs. The consignment com prised live head, including the four year -old Heir Apparent, ami the following two-year-oMs: Bobt. !.. wen. b. g. by Bksea -Lemon Girl; George Dun can. b. o. by Btaee— Aunt Lady: W. W. Hastings. eh. g, by Harrlgan — Boyal Lady; Bog, ch. g, by Bines- Boyal Nettie. The stable lost Blaebannock by the claiming route and Pierce YV. broke down at tin- recent New Orleans Meethsg. Mr. Sogers is known in the southwest as the "potato king." .wing to his large interests in that tuber. Near his home at Fort Gibson, Okln.. he owns in partnership itli his brother. "..TOO acres of land de vot.-d to the culture of potatoes. The mere Fleetal.clle. in charge of W. Mulhol-laml. ami the lilly Will Do. in the care of Frank Wright, arrived in the same ear with the Bogers horses. Kay Bpeace, who underwent an operation for -toniach i rouble, is stil confined to an Fl PSSM hospital, and dsea not exp.et to reach here for several more weeks. His stable here is being cared for by W. Fiunigan. who will take purl of tin stable to Lexington to be raced. Among the number will be UaCMOUde, Bed Salmon. Lathalitt. Fight Fair and Miladi Ann. The latter is being pointed for th- Ashland Oaks. Hodge, the star of the stable, will not be raced till the D..wns aaeeting opens. K. 1. Dickinson, who was killed last week in an automobile accident near Tijuana, had requested that five stalls be watrvfd for his stable at the Downs. lb- w.,s :i native o," Independence, Ore.. :nd was veil and favorably known in local turf circles.
