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LOUISVILLE TRAINERS BUSY Large Crowd Sees Brother Batch and Coyne in Impressive Trial LOUISVILLE Ky March 27 Running under restrain and with trainer C C Van Muter waving their riders to slow down still further Hrother Hatch and Coyne Kentucky Derby eligibles owned respectively by E C Arnold and Hurtled Hrotbers were given a workout of one mile in 147 at Churchill Downs this morning The two colts are in prime condition and it was witii difficulty that they were held to the first half mile in 51 Throughout the final eighth they were simply cantering Jcckey Mack Gainer was astride of Hrother Hatch while Molvin Thompson rode Coyne The former horse wore blinkers in his gallop gallopSeveral Several hundred racing enthusiasts journeyed to the Downs early to get a glimpse of the Derby candidates in action and a large crowd also was on hand at Douglas Park At the latter course the horses ran faster than on any previous morning this spring to date and more than one hundred were given workouts An unusually high wind prevailed prevailedThe The best move of any of the Derby candidates at Douglas Park was that of Ued Legs which went a mile in 14S lie was not allowed to extend him ¬ self at any part of it itHen Hen Holt owned by J U Hell local business man and which is entered in the Derby ran a mile in 149 at the Downs IK went the first quarter in better than 24 the half a shade slower than 4l and fiveeights in 102 Jack Hanover his rider pulled him up through the final quarter and he could easily have worked as good as 144 144Mnrjorie Mnrjorie Ilynen ran threequarters of a mile in j 117 today with little effort effortArrival j Arrival of horse today from New Orleans in eluded those of F St John Nugent Hrothers and H T Hatchler They were sent to Douglas Park There were three in the St John outfit in charge of trainer Joe Tigue Nugent Hrothers had six and Hatchler two Immediately upon his arrival Tigue took over Green Jones and two otiiers which spent tlie winter at Churchill Downs in the public training table of Ahern Hoyle i iJockey Jockey J Francis who recently signed a con tract to rfdf WlllUims lUotJleMViTrthu veTl tucky circuit was an arrival ffotn Hitvana He left for his home in Covington to spend a weeks vacation before getting into harness again againJ J E MADDEN A VISITOR VISITORJohn John K Madden came down from his home in Lexington today and was a visitor at Iwth of the local tracks His twoyearolds are still at Church ¬ ill Downs but they will be sent Kast within a short time timeFlags Flags gave another display of temper this morning at Douglas Park when he unseated his rider and ran away He started out as though he was going to take his work kindly but in the middle of the backstretch his sour disposition manifested itself and for the next thirty minutes he gave Lloyd Gentry his owner and the attendants around tlie stable considerable trouble He finally ran out a gate of the race track trackLord Lord Allen 1 J Pendergasts crack colt which was considered tlie best twoyearold at New Or ¬ leans continues to show his high speed here and he is training famously for slake engagements on the Kentucky circuit circuitCobweb Cobweb a fast but unsound sprinter of the C W Clark stable which was turned out all winter lias been placed back in active training by trainer George V Harnes HarnesClem Clem Theisen of the racing firm of Kohn Theiseu whose horses are at Lexington in charge of trainer H C Frakes was a visitor at the two tracks today todayConsiderable Considerable wagering on Inchcapes chances in the coining Kentucky Derby has been indulged in during the past few days in this section For some reason or another there is little or 110 demand for Tryster Many are willing to back him but they consider odds of four to one too short this far in advance of the big race
