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I Z o of fj E l a ■ v f, ■ h c y 1 r ■ v ■ , a . ■ | J J . J , 1 . , 1 f f e r I * k I " I " 1 M " y e " to ° of e r * at ° II •• ■ * on h DOWN EAST ASPIRANTS ■ ♦ ■ Messenger Expected to Come West for Derby Try. . • Zev Credited With a Fast Mile Workout — Reports About Enchantment All Guesswork. ♦ LOUISVILLE, Ky.. April 25.— Elimination Kentucky Derby nominations will come fast now. Already the work watchers, both East and West, could blue pencil at least 100 of the 145 named for the race and probably not miss any of the eligibles which have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. With the close of the Lexington and Pimlico meetings the Derby field can be fairly well estimated, for at both these places many eligibles intended for the Derby will have shown sufficient form to entitle them to consideration in the first real test for three-year-olds of the year. But few of the Derby eligibles have started this year and these have not had sufficient racing to give a line as to their abilities, barring Setting Sun, Calcutta. Blanc Seing, All American. Prince Tii Tii. Blue Nose, Body Guard. Wida and several lesser lights which raced at winter tracks. Of those which have started in Maryland Sallys Alley won an impressive race. General Thatcher has started but once and then won only a sprinting race. Vigil showed he is ready to race when he beat Dunlin at Havre de Grace last Saturday, but Dunlin was giving the Salmon colt ten pounds and was only beaten neck in fast time. Dunlin may reverse that decision if Vigil is not better than the experts rate him. Golden Rule, another of the Ooadeu eligibles. which won at Havre de Crace Monday, is probably a fair colt, as is Tall Timber. R. T. Wilsons Derby candidate, which showed well against a band of sprinters older than he last Saturday. FEUSTEI.s AMBITIOUS PLANS. Reports from New York have Messenger, Great Man and Zev going well. Messenger has gone three-quarters in 1 :ltl and is said to be training satisfactorily under the eye of Louis Feustel. of Man o War fame. Feu-stel is said to be pointing the Belmont colt for the Preakness Stakes with the main object to also win the Kentucky Derby, then the Belmont and thus repeat the feat of Sir Barton, the only colt that ever won all three of these rich races. Zev is said to have worked a mile in 1 :::9"r.- That the Rancocas Stables favorite fcr the Derby did a gallop like this is probably true, else he would not now be the choice of the punters for the race. How good H. P. Whitneys Derby eligibles are no one knows but trainer James Rowe. and that worthy is said to be as close-, mouthed as a clam when the occasion arises. That Enchantment has been reported to have had a mishap in his training which caused his price for the Derby to recede several points is known, but just what happened, if anything, to the big gelding is only a guess. Nothing definite has been heard from Brookdale training grounds. Another good colt which showed last year that nothing has been heard of is Canmore, which raced In the colors of J. K. L. Loss. What Henry McDaniel is doing with this one is a puzzle. That he was a crack colt during the Canadian racing season of l.»22 is vouched for by all who saw him race. He has also been named for the Preakness Stakes and probably is being pointed for that event. Little Celt, which showed excellent form at the tail-ertd of last years racing season, is another one on which sonre wise money has been placed in the future books on the Derby. This colt may get some racing at Jamaica when that meeting starts early in May. The Clown and The Sage, two of the Montfort Jones colts named, probably will trot do. The Clown does not seem to be of Derby caliber, gauged by his race with Setting Sun. KENTITKY HOUSKS LACK CLASS. Of the sixty or seventy Derby eligibles in Kentucky and trained at Lexington. Church-r ill Downs and Douglas Park, those of possible IHrby class can be counted on both hands. While none of them has started, those which have shown in work that they are worthy of consideration are Bo McMillan, Donges, In Memoriam. Prince K.. Lord Gran.-ite. Cartoonist. Actuary and Park Hill at Louisville, and Aspiration, Blossom Time. Bright Tomorrow. Hopeless. Nassau and Anna M. Humphrey at Lexington. W. L. Martin has in his stable two fairly good colts no one but Martin really knows how good they are which will be shipped within the next few days to Maryland. Beth are entered in the Preakness Stakes. They are Valador, belonging to Mr. Martin, and .Scoop, the property of Admiral Carey Cray- son. Valador probably is the better of the two. While Exterminator is scheduled to come to Churchill Downs with the Clark and Ken-1,1 lucky Handicaps, which he won last year, in ■ Continued on twelfth i ace. down easFaspirants Continued from first p.nge. view, he will have to be as good, if not better, than he was then to win these races, for he will meet in Whiskaway and Firebrand, both trained at the Downs, two worthy opponents. Firebrand is about ready to give his best if the handicapper does not put too many pounds on him. He will be a hard horse to beat with anything under 1:0. Whiskaway is displaying his old tactics of refusing to work, but it is said that trainer Jimmy Rowe had the same trouble with the son of Whisk Broom II. last year. Last Sunday Whiskaway. after some persuasion, worked a mile around 1 :45. which was the best time he has displayed this spring in a workout. Critics, however, familiar with Whiskaways temper, say that he will run fast and far off that kind of work with colors up. « -
