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TWENTY-NINE DERBY HORSES Training at Lexington Track — Aspiration Much Talked About — Foals at Nursery Stud. LEXINGTON, Ky„ April J.— Counting the s«ven in the string of Colonel EL B. Bradley at Idle Hour Stock Farm there are twenty-nine eligibles for the Kentucky Derby in training here. The Bradley string will move in from the farm Wednesday, so they will then all be at the Kentucky Association track. The eligibles here are Aspiration. Ascot, Anna M. Humphrey. Betty Beall. Boys Believe Me. Blossom Time, Blue Xose. Body Guard. Bradleys Toney. Bright Tomorrow. Cast In. Crudenos, Cherokee. Cukamo, Dust Flower. Everhart. Freeholder. Creat Kuck. Indian Trail. Hopeless. Karchmont. Nassau. Playful Miss. Bight OB Time. Kusticator, Taylor Hay. Triumph. . Sweetheart and Yic-toire. The horse most talked about, of course, is Ben Blocks Aspiration. This colt had no preparation except one mild gallop when he came into the hands of trainer "Jack" Baker at the sale of the Herbert H. Hewitt establishment on the night of March SI. Yesterday over a slow track Aspiration galloped three-quarters in 1 :21 and he is to work again Wednesday. "Aspiration is a good horse and he is training satisfactorily." said Baker this morning. "You know Ive got to give him a foundation in preparation for hard work, but he is making that foundation fine and there yet is plenty of time, barring accidents, to get him ready for the big race at Churchill Downs on May 19. He has an excellent disposition and does everything that is asked of him with good will and abundance of heart. I like him better than any Derby horse I have ever had." J. J. Troxler and J. A. Gibson, whose horses are at Huntington for the West Virginia Jockey Club meeting that is to open next Thursday, stopped off here yesterday and last night, both to see their brood mares. Troxlers mares. Alula and Fern Handley. both have foals at John S. Wiggins Military Stock Farm, while Gibsons Bose dOr is due to foal to King Gorin at Kinney Nicho- ! las farm. Joseph E. and George D. Widener are here for an Inspection of their farms and horses ar.d will remain for several days. They have announced that the furniture and decorations in the Green Hills mansii n of the late James B. Haggin. which they recently purchased with the last of tin- land of the great farm remaining in the hands of the Haggin estate, is to be sold by auction this week. Former United States Senator Joseph W. Bailey, en route to Washington from Dallas, stopped off here today to see his farm and horses. The latest foals at Major August Belmonts Xursvry Stud are a chestnut filly by Man o War — Meddlesome II.: chestnut colt by Hour-less — Yellow Sally : bay filly by Hourless — Kachanannen. and bay filly by Fair Play Keen Jane, by Javelin. The mares will be returned to their foals. Walter J. Salmons Cicuta has a bay colt by Fair Play.
