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| I c z c i * x £ 7 7 1 i t ] c 1 f i I 1 i 1 1 £ c i i I t t t ] t i f t 1 c i c i i 1 s ■ ! I I I I : I I I I ] I LOUISVILLE TRACKS AFLOAT ♦ Tremendous Downpour for Four Hours a Feature Yesterday. -— ♦ Surf Rider, Deadlock and Chat-terton Work in the Mud Anyhow — Bradley Confident. -— ♦ LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 14.— One of the worst rain and thunderstorms in years broke over this section at 5 oclock this morning and the downpour continued, with the exception of temporary abatements for short intervals, for. four hours. The two race tracks resembled lakes, as the water came too fast to drain off and, as a result, little training was done. Possibly fifty horses were seen in action at Churchill Downs, while not more than twenty were given exercise at Douglas Park. Between 7 and :30 oclock it grew unusually dark and this, with the heavy rain, made it impossible to see horses across the track at the Downs. Several of the Kentucky Derby candidates were brought out, despite the adverse conditions. Bob Shannon sent Deadlock a mile in 1 :57 ; F. J. Kelleys Chatterton covered the same distance in 1 :50%, while Surf Rider galloped five-eighths of a mile in 1 :07?; as an "opener" for a longer work-out tomorrow. The first two named worked at the Downs and they had to run near the outside rail all the way, because of large pools of water extending far out on the track. Deadlocks fractional time was quarter in 27, half mile in 56 and three-quarters in 1 :28. The Sir Wilfrea colt fairly reveled in the sloppy going. Chatterton covered his first quarter in 27-:-,, half mile in 54% and three-quarters in 1 :23. His work was a good one and he ran well in the mud. A number of the stables at Douglas Park were under water and there was a general shifting of quarters when it receded enough to get the horses out. It did not get into the occupied stalls, but approached dangerously under the sheds. EXPECTS TO WIX DERBY AGAIX. E. R. Bradley, w-hoso Behave Yourself and Black Servant finished one-two in the Kentucky Derby last year, is about as optimistic as any owner with an eligible for the big event this year. In a letter to track superintendent Tom Young requesting thirty stalls for two divisions of his stable this spring he concludes by saying : "Barring accident we will duplicate our performance of last year." There are no ifs or ands in his statement and he qualifies it with accents alone. William Dondas, whose Rosedale Stable met with a fair measure of success at Havana during the last winter, was an arrival from his home in Covington. He has turned several of his horses out, but left The Pirate with trainer A. Baker at Lexington. His mare Marty Lou is in foal to Happy Go Lucky at Dan Lehans farm at Jefferson-town, Ky., just outside the local city limits. Dondas will proceed to Omaha, where he will supervise the pari-mutuel department at the coming meeting in June. Trainer Dick Vestal will take Gentility, Centimeter, Glenlivet and two other horses to Lexington next week. Glenlivet is a two-year-old bay colt, by Meelick — Dona Hamilton, and will be the main reliance of the G. L. Blackford stable in the stakes for two-year-olds in which his sex is eligible on the Kentucky circuit this spring. The Florisant Stable will not have a representative at Lexington, but jockey Earl Pool, its contract rider, will accept mounts there. A. J. Moora, agent for the stable, will look after Pools engagements at that meeting. Joe Thomas plans to ship his stable to Toronto in time for the opening of the Woodbine Park meeting. His horses wintered at Churchill Downs. W. C. Weaat is on the injured list as the result of running a nail in his right foot. The wound is healing and it is thought that all danger of infection has passed.
