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COLD BREEZES AT DOWNS Trainers Go Slow With Charges at Louisville Tracks Ho McMillan Most Forward of All Derby DerbyCandidates Candidates Cliittagong Is the theKeene Keene Jlros Hope LOUISVILLE Ky March 28 An unex ¬ pected norther restrained the trainers at Churchill Downs from asking their charges to do their best this morning and as a con ¬ sequence no fast moves were recorded All the Derby candidates were out but halves around 5 were as fast as they were asked to go Donges was full of run when ne was given the go in company with Spin ball but a cold stilt wind blowing down the stretch caused trainer Ward to slow the pair up after they had gone the first quarter around 24 The stop watches clicked 52 at the half and the horses pulled up upAll All the Madden Derby eligibles were mere ¬ ly galloped Squander the black colt by Hessian Millinery which Mr Madden thought his best twoyearold last year about this time but never got to the races on ac ¬ count of doubtful underpinning is training slowly and is going sound So is Sandy Hatch Dozer Flintstone and MacLier None of them has ever been set down yet but they are under the watchful eye of the mas ¬ ter of Hamburg Place It is sure that one or two of them will be left here to fill their Derby engagements but time only will tell which ones will stand the test testBo Bo McMillan seems to be the colt which is farther advanced than any of the Derby eligibles at the Downs Trainer Calm sent the big Ballot colt threequarters in llfl this morning He is probably near a race for the creases show an indenture in his muscular parts which to the initiated indicates that he is within a shade of work It is recalled that Omar Khayyam had the same early preparation for the Derby he won in 1017 The late Charles Patterson who trained Omar Khayyam for that race gave him a long careful training at New Orleans and did not start the colt until the Lexington meeting where ho met defeat in the Blue Grass Stakes and came on to Churchill Downs to win the Derby Trainer Cahn is evidently doing the same thing with Bo Mc ¬ Millan MillanAlice Alice Blue Gown the Keene Brothers Derby and Oaks candidate could look and do no better While she has never been set down she is taking her long gallops with COLD BREEZES AT DOWNS Continued from first page a zest It is said that Chittagong is the choice of the Keenes for the Derby honors and that Alice Blue Gown will go for the Oaks Chittagong also is doing well He was a colt which seemed to fancy a route as a twoyearold and was always running over horses at the end Chittagongs mother Agnes Virginia was a producer of several longdistance horses horsesActuary Actuary the Dick Finnell Alice Baird colt Peter Coyne is training for the Derby for R H Anderson of Georgetown stepped a a half in 52 this morning with a vim Thix colt is much improved He was handicapped last year with an infection in one of his hoofs but is now going sound soundOver Over at Douglas Park trainer Alex Gor ¬ don sent Cartoonist and Hyperion the two Derby eligibles in cartoonist Bud Fishers barn for a mile They were caught the first quarter in 26 15 half 53 threeiquarters 1 20 mile 1 47 Both pulled up without blowing blowingGeorge George Land sent In Memoriam a mile in 1 19 15 He was just cantering and at no time did the boy set him down downW W L 3rAHTI 3rAHTITS TS TOUGH LUCK LUCKW W L Martin lost the use of one of his best twoyearold fillies for racing this morn ¬ ing when the Vulcain Belle Oakley filly threw her exercise boy at the threeeighths post at Churchill Downs and running in the gap and over the bridge at the halfmile post broke her stifle She was strapped up by Dr Henry Harthill in the hope that she can be preserved for breeding purposes purposesJohn John B McKee who races under the nom de course of the Meadowbrook Stable is on his way to Churchill Downs from Tijuana with Prince Til Tii his Derby candidate and an older horse Bon Homme Prince Tii Tii was purchased from Mcse Goldblatt at Xew Orleans last winter for the reported price of 15000 with the intention of winning the Tijuana Derby but third was the best he could do in the race Prince Tii Tii ran a smashing good race in the Coffroth Handicap decided at the Lower California track last Sunday finishing fourth fourthFrank Frank M Taylor is here for the purpose of campaigning several of the John E Mad ¬ den horses at Jamaica As soon as Mr Mad dendecides what horses he will let Mr Taylor have they will be shipped East
