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SUNSHINE AT LOUISVILLE Weather Conditions Improve After Five Days of Rain and Snow Damask Gives More Evidence of ofHis His Advanced Training Prince Pal Shows Up Well LOriSYILLK Ky April 7 For the first tlmo in five days lln sun slnmt hero today anil the weather was favorable for training thoroughbreds even though it was a lilt cold Both the Churchill Downs and Douglas 1ark tracks were deep in mud as the result of yesterdays snow and rainstorm but irimorons horses were out for work at tin two tracks just the same The Kentucky Derby eligible were not so conspicuous today only a few of them being tried out outSterling Sterling from the C C Van Meter stable cov ¬ ered threeiiiarters in 1 U0 with jockey C Pyrnc on him Angon his stablemate was pressed into service as a pacemaker and ran fiveeighths of a mile with him in 107 after which he was eased up Simpleton owm d by Dr Otto Kogers gal ¬ loped fiveeighths in lOSf lOSfTrainers Trainers Mose Coldblatt Will Wallace and Max Hiiscli who have Damask Dounacoua On Watch and Prince Pal the most prominent Derby eligible liire under their care managed to get good work ¬ outs for their horses yesterday morning before the Downs track turned mndtly again but they had let them run in a hard snowstorm in order to do it At that the course was far from being at its best but it was dry enough for th horses to show speed enough to convince their caretakers that their con ¬ dition is satisfactory satisfactoryDamask Damask worked a mile in lillivs the best work of any of tiie Kentucky Derby candidates here to date lie could have gone faster but for jockey Fddio Ambrose restraining him especially during the filial quarter of a mile The snowflakes were at their heaviest while he was working Servitor accompanied him for a half mile and the two horses showed a keen turn of sliced running from the stand to the half mile post in Damask covered the fiveeighths in 10 and the three quarters in 117 At this juncture Ambrose b gan to take a firmer hold than ever on the colt and practically allowed him to only canter the final eighth eighthIn In his gallop yesterday Damask did not wear blinkers and trainer Mo Coldblatt said that had he had them on he would have turned in a much faster mile This colt is partial to the eye cover ¬ ings and wore them in all of his races in New Orleans last winter He pulled up in good condition and demonstrated that he is easily the most ad ¬ vanced in training of any of the Dirby prospects here hereIriuce Iriuce 1al was called upon for the first time to go one and oneeighth miles and he ran the distance in l0J Jockey Unfits Shilling was astride of him and he kept him to just about the pace that trainer Wallace instructed him to The threeyear old ran the first quarter of a mile in 2li three eighths in Mr half mile in TJ z threequarters in 1J1 seveneighths in l3i and the mile in 1IS lie worked alone ud in a manner that indicates that lie is possessed of staying ability abilityLOFT LOFT CANDIDATES ON EDGE EDGEA A mile in 1 in easv fashion was the workout of Donuacona and On Watch the C V Loft Derby hopes which are being trained by Max Ilirsch These two horses ran together with jockey Cliff Kobinson on Doniiacoua and Newton ISarrett in On Watch They were a considerable distance from the inner rail at all stages of the work The first half mile was covered in TA Ilirsch has not exacted a hard workout from his horses as yet this spring but he has them on edge to show him their best when he tries them high highAtta Atta Hoy II demonstrated that he has all of his oldtime early speed when he galloped threequar ¬ ters in Ill52i lie was on the shelf the greater part of the winter due to illness but he appears to be in better condition now than ever before beforeUiihclieu Uiihclieu the J W McClelland colt in the Derby worked fiveeights of a mile in 105 He is also being trained by Will Wallace The frigid weather caused Miller Henderson to change his mind about shipping the Ogden Stable to Havre de race and he will keep the horses with the exception of three at tin Downs until that meeting opens The trio in question will be taken to Lexington by Max Ilirsch Henderson said that he feared that the horses might be taken ill if shipped during such cold weather Jockey Cliff Uobinson contract rider for the Ogden Stable will likewise remain here 1 W May with whom Henderson planned to ship sent his stable to the Maryland course this morning Sam Freedman will not race until late in the year as lie was unsexed this morning by Dr C K Itiehards The horse developed a violent temper ind when Joe ITmensettor returned from Havana le decided upon castration as a last resort for curbing it itKratlleys Kratlleys Choice which fell so lame at Hot Springs last year that his racing days were thought to be over was brought here from 15 A Jones farm at Iarnell Mo and is back in training again The old gelding gallops daily in a manner to in ilicate that he will stand hard work later on He is owned by Milo Shields Clean lTp another if the Shields horses that went wrong at the same time and was turned out with Pradleys Choice was brought hack from the Jones farm with him mill has also been taken up for training again againKobcrt Kobcrt Kowcrs owner of Crand Slain in the rioldblatt stable came down from his home in Cincinnati this morning and he and Coldblatt left in a motor trip for Lexington The latter went to arrange for quarters for the eighteen horses hat he will ship there thereSchooling Schooling of the twoyearolds was conducted it both tracks this morning in deep mud So much ime has been lost in this task because of bad veathcr and track conditions that the owners and ralners fear that their youngsters will be back ¬ yard in their barrier training unless every day is utilized from now on until the racing season
