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MUD AT LOUISVILLE ♦ Lord Granite Shows Up Well on the Sloppy Track. • ■ In Memoriam at Home in the Soft Going — Kitty Williams a Speedy Miss. ♦ LOUISVILLE. Ky.. April 4 —A heavy fog hung over the training grounds at both Churchill Downs and DougTas Park this morning following showers yesterday aim last night. While many Derby candidates were brought out and given gallops there were only a few which were asked to negotiate the sloppy going. I.iord Granite and Blue Stone, the Louch-heim Derby candidates, were given a stiff workout for three-quarters and both colts showed well in the soft going. They were caught in the first half mile in 521-s and three-quarters in 1:21 15. Lord Granite was the best and his action in the sloppy going caused favorable comment from the rail-birds. Trainer Ownbey was pleased with the work of the son of Granite and remarked while he was cooling him out that he had one ticket on the colt calling for 5,000 against 50 to win the Derby. It is said that Mr. Louchheim has backed Lord Granite in the future books from 200 down to 50 to 1. Kitty Williams, a three-year-old filly in the Louchheim stable, showed the best work of the morning when she went a half in 51, the first quarter in 24Vc- This filly is not in the Derby, but will be the stables dependence in the Kentucky Oaks and other filly stakes. This filly was the sensation of the "baby racers" at New Orleans during the winter of 1922. She trained off last spring after coming up the line, but she seems to have wintered well, filled out considerably and is ready to give a good account of herself. She is quite speedy. W. L. Martins Derby candidate Valador was given a good workout in company with Dugout. The two were caught at- the half in 52 and the three-quarters in 1 DISUNITED VEEDE DOING WELL. United Verde, candidate for the Clark Handicap, the feature race of the opening day of the Churchill Downs meeting, was given a stiff gallop in company with White Star. The two made the five-eighths in 1 :06*a- Trainer Gecrge Land worked In Memoriam over a muddy course at Douglas Park a mile in 1 :51 this morning. The big McGee colt seemed to revel in the going and at the end of the journey was fighting for his head. "He runs like he could go all day." was the remark of an ubiquitous docker, who has centered on the Weidemann colt as the Derby winner. Trainer Alex Gcrdon had out Cartoonist and Hyperion, but they were not asked to go fast. They were galloped two or three miles and returned to their stable. A rumor was in circulation here today that Sallys Alley would not start in the Derby, as she had developed oselets. had been fired and would not be ready for the big race. It also was hinted that the filly was not doing so well since the death of Eugene Wayland. her trainer. How true these stories are could not be verified. The interest has become so great in the Derby that the betting has already begun to fluctuate about the different candidates like a flury on stock market. TIJUANA HORSES OMIMi. Track superintendent Tom Young received a message from Tijuana today that the horses of George Mayberry and John McKee would be shipped direct to Churchill Downs next Saturday. Julius P.-eder, who will act as secretary Mtd placing judge at the Huntington, W. Ya.. meeting which begins April 12, arrived here today from New Orleans. After the Huntington meeting Mr. Keedr will rMM his duties as assistant secretary on the Kentucky tracks. He left tonight for 1 exing-ton, where he will try to interest turfmen located there in the Huntington meeting. James Everman lost his t wo-ye tr-old filly Ever Ready by Everest Tillies Last, from an attack of pneumonia at Pouglas Park today. Tae lilly injured herself at New Orleans and contracted the fatal disease when she was skipped here from the Crescent City. She never got to the races. Joe Umenstetter has again taken up the fast horse Sam Friedman and l:e is going along well. Sam Friedman was meant for a good racer, but dicky underpinning farhaos him racing much. Mr. Umensetter did get him to the races once last year and he won, but went amiss soon afterwards. George Arvin at rived from Mobile, where he has been racing some of his horses. He sent his stable direct to Huntington from Mobile.
