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SURF RIDERS FINE WORKOUT Runs the Fastest Training Mile Shown at Louisville. ■ i i — Miss Joy Covers a Mile in Good Style — Deadlock, Chatterton and Rockminister Work Well. ■ t ♦ ji LOUISVILLE. Ky.. April 1— rut to the most kpvcip tart sincp bis K-niiik.v Party preparation began Surf Kiilpr, Kay Spences recent 5,000 acquisition, turned in Hip fastest work-out of any of the eligiblcs to tho hie pvpnt reported to date when lie ran a milp in 1:4:5% at Douglas Iark this morning. Hp accomplished this feat in an pasy niannpr, never being fully extended, and the final three-pichtlis found his rider having him under restraint. TcKlay was onp of activity all around for the Derby candidates quartered at the local tracks. Rockminister. a atablemate of Surf Rider, covered a mile in 1:44% and galloped out an eighth farther in l:ot /and at the Beechmont course. Deadlock, Bob Shannons hope in the 0,000 added Btake, covered the Churchill Downs track in 1:47%, while Chatterton. from the F. .1. Kelley stable, was given a sprint of five-eighths of a mile in 1:03% at the same track. With the exception of a strip of ground along the inner rail all the way around the Douglas Park course was dry this morning, but not fast by any means, end this made Surf Riders work all the more fcrflliant. Spewe put the Superman gelding Rockminister and thp fleet John S. Rpardon in a set together and they started at the eighth post. The last two named began head and head, but Barf Rider was tardy at the start and his two companions were well under way when he left. At the Pnd of the five-eighths mile John S. Reardon was pulled lip and Rockminister was not long in noticing this. as he immediately began his loafing tactics. In an instant Surf Rider had closed the big gap that separated them and then the Kriar Rock colt began to move again. The two remained in the close alignment until the mile was covered and then Surf Rider was taken tip sharply, while his stablemate was allowed to gallop on out to the finishing line In front of the grandstand. The fractional time of the work-out was: Quarter in 24%. half in 50, five-eighths in 1:03V-.. three-quarters in 1:17. Surf Rider was timed by several horsempn as beginning one and two fifths seconds bphind Back-minister, and this givps an idea of the ground ha made up to get on even terms with him. Jockey Williams, one of the Montfort Jones contract riders, who returned yesterday from Havana, was astride Surf Rider, while jockey Mickey Scobie rode Rockminister. The two Derby horses pulled up in excellent condition. DOWNS TRACK DRYING OUT. The Downs track was drying out but was sticky in spots, although not as deep as yesterday. Jockey MHrtin was instructed to hold Deadlock to a mil. in 1:48, and he missed this mark bv only three -fifths of a second. The first quarter was run in SVJfc, the half mile in 53%, and three-quarters in 1:20,;,. The Shannon colt apparently was "crying to run," and it was no easy tusk for his rider to keep him at the pace desired. Trainer C. C. Van Meter took the blinkers off Chatterton this morning. He had originally planned to work him a mile, but track conditions caused a chunge in his program. Melvin Thompson rode him and he let him run the first half mile in 52%. This one also could have gone much faster. As a climax to a Week of the most changeable ■neather this section has witaeeed in year* the temperature dropppd nearly 40 degrees during the night, and few days this winter were colder than during thp early been today. Late in the forenoon the sun came out and as it warmed up a bit the horsemen were hopeful that thp uncertain spell is at an end. Snow flurries k were visible last night. Quite a few of the trainer* confined their operations to shed work with their charges this morning because of the cold. GENTILITY A SPEEDY MISS. There was a comparing of stop watches all around when QeatMtjr, winner of last years Breeder- Futurity nt Lexington and candidate for the Ashland. Kentucky and Latonia Oaks, was timed a half mile in 4s--. and she made the muddy track nt the Downs look fast. She ran the first eighth iu 11-.-,, quarter in 23.-.. and three -eighths in 35. Her performance was the sensation of the morning. Trainer R. N. "Dick" Vestal also named her for the Derby, but she is being conditioned with the three Oaks in view. Vestal said that two i days before he shipped her from New Orlpans she worked a quarter of a mile in 22. She seems to run just as fast in the mud as over a dry track. Miss Jo.v. which gained great renown last year by her numerous victories, gave evidence his morning that she has regained her lx-st form when i she ran a mile in 1:44-., with little effort. Fair • Phantom, her stable male, covered the same distance in a like time. They ran in Indian file. Back are candidates for the three Oaks. Trainer J. . Calm arrived this morning from I New Orleans with eight horses belonging to himself ■ and T. .1. Ipndergast. L. Calm, his brother. and Jockey Fred Smith, ride! for this stable, came I iu at the same time yesterday. I»rd Allen, which picked up a nail nt Now • Orleuns, has completely recovered from his in-Jury. - C. E. Rowe brought Miss Jemima and Sunny • Ducrow. the latter a two year-old, from the Crescent City this morning. Danny Miller came iu from the same place with l Dartmoor, which he raced at the Fair G rounds for r Alex B. Cordon. Iat Knebelkamp received a telegram this morning from jockey Albert Wilson, his contract rider. . informing him that his affairs with the Cnited I States immigration authorities at Detroit had been l straightened out through Washington and he leaves a Ilia houie in Windsor, Out., tonight for this city. CJ. L. Blackford, through trainer Vestal, loday obtained - second call on Wilsons services for the i Kentucky meetings. i • I ■ I • - • l r . I l a - i W. F. Knebelkamp. owner of the Louisville base- ball club, whose stable of fifteen horses came in from Havana yesteiday, was an arrival from the Cuban capital. James Cass, veteran trainer, wa -another to come from the s.ime placp. Jockey Bertram Sch ffel. Cincinnati lad who rode with marked success at Oriental Park, ar-. rived yesterday. He is under contract to W. F. Knebelkamp. Geaeral manager Matt J. Winn of the Kentucky Jockey Club departed tonight for La lonia. From there he will proceed to l exington for an inspection of the racing plant there. Pindar Peel, which E. C. Arnold purchased from Fred B. Courson, arrived here from Lexington and was taken in charge by trainer Pete Coyne. Johnson N. Camden, president of the Kentucky a week today. Johnson D. Camden, president of the Kentucky Jockey Club, returned to his home in Versailles. Ky.. today from California, where he spent the greater part of the late winter. Bermont. which trainer Al B. Finnegan cam-. paigned at Havana for Montfort Jones, has been returned to the main division at Douglas Park. Several other Jones horses which were takeu to i Cuba were disposed of there.
