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GIVES BIG SUM FOR CUDGEl J. K. L Ross Paid More Than 0,000 for Crack Colt. Kentucky Derby Possibilities-Heavy Snow Fall Retards Training Operations. Louisville, Ky., December 14. Training of horses in winter quarters at both the local tracks, Douglas Park and Churchill Downs, lias been suspended temporarily on account of a seventeen inch snowfall, which is the heaviest Louisville has experienced since the year 1871. From present indications horses will not be sent over the local courses for several days to come, as a severe cold spell has set in which makes trials practically impossible. The unusual number of horses in quarters here, especially the yearlings, have been progressing well in their exercise and the owners and trainers in charge ure of the opinion that the present let up on account of weather conditions will not set them back. John W. Schorr, the Memphis turfman, who has a stable of ten horses in winter quarters at Douglas Park in charge of trainer Louis Tauber, may ship several to New Orleans within the next few weeks to take part .in the Fair Grounds meeting, which opens the first of the year. The fast sprinter Harry Kelly will be included in the shipment. This colt seems to be in great condition at present and in the event he is sent to New Orleans, should give a good account of himself. Mr. Schorr, who is spending the winter in Louisville, now and then making a trip to Memphis, was asked recently concerning the price paid by Capt. J. K. L. Ross for Cudgel. "You can say for me," said Mr. Schorr, "that I received considerable more than 0,000 for Cudgel, otherwise I would not have left the colt go. Cudgel is a wonderfully improved colt and the greatest three-year-old living nnd will prove this to the turf world when he meets Hourless, Omar Khayyam and the other cracks, of the east." TCmtuckiuns may have the opportunity of seeing a clash between Cudgel, Hourless and Omar Khayyam, if general manager John Hachmeisters efforts to .bring them together in the Kentucky Handicap, the 10,000 feature of the Douglas Park spring meeting, meets with success. The running of the 1918 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, which will probably be set for .Saturday, May 11, will in all probability bring together one of the greatest fields which has ever faced the barrier in this historic contest. The. recent announcement made by Max Hirsch, trainer for George W. lxft, that Papp, the Belmont Futurity winner, would be a contestant, causes considerable more interest to be manifested in the Derby, in view of the fact that Sun Briar, the leading two-year-old winner of the year, is also to be pointed for the race. Escoba, the property of Kenneth D. Alexander, is the present choice of local turf patrons for next years race. Freecutter, which belongs to the local turfman George J. Long, is the second choice.
