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• j j i i j | | 1 ■ i I I TRAINING RETARDED * -» Miniature Dust Cyclone Sweeps Over Churchill Downs Track. ♦ ■ Work of Schooling Two-Year-Olds at Barrier Well Under Way — Whitney Reservations. * , LOUISVILLE. K . April I.— A stiff wind that blew up the homestretch at Churchill Downs all during work hours Monday morning hindered training operations to a considerable extent, as trainers were unwilling to send their charges along for pretentious gallops in a miniature dust cyclone. John S. Ward, who had planned to send both Wise Counsellor and Worthmore a mile in what he expected would be their most ambitious work of the spring training season, was one that decided that conditions were not favorable for his colts to show to the best advantage and he wisely concluded to defer the colts gallop until Tuesday morning, when it is expected conditions will be better. Ho did. however, send the colts down the back-stretch three-eighths in rtlf, as a preparation for their more pretentious work of Tuesday. Lon Jones also had arranged to ask both Glide and Sanola to step their first mile of the season at a good clip, but changed hi ; plans and only asked the fillies to gallop along for three-quartf rs. Contrary to regular custom, the fillies did not work together. Colvin. another three-year-old in the stahle. was sent out to keep Glide company, while Sanola went unaccompanied. Glide easily outpaced Colvin and was under a good pull all the way. She galloped the half in :." 0-.:. and the three-quarters in 1:19%. Sanola ran I the half in :." 2 and the three-quarters iti ll:2e%. Both fillies will be required to uii-! limber themselves for a mile journey Tuesday morning. With the opening of the racing season in 1 Kentucky less than three weeks away, trainers of horses at both local tracks are hurrying along the preparation of their charges j with all possible speed. This applies mora particularly to the two-year-olds, of which ! there are a greater number here than during any recent year. The work of getting the, I youngsters aecusomed to the barrier is well under way and assistant starter "Micky" Harris, in charge of this work, is kept busy every morning educating the baby racers in harrier deportment. Monday morning he had the biggest class since he first put up his starting gate, when he schooled youngsters from the stables of Bete Coyne. .T. E. Madden, O. E. Mueller and Harned Brothers. FOB CAXADIAX CAMPAM3T. Miller Henderson, who will train eight of J. E. Maddens horses on the Canadian circuit this year, has been engaged to take along seven of the Audley Farm Stable horses for the Canadian campaign. The lat-! ter horses have not yet been selected and they will not be decided upon until Mont fort Jones arrival here the latter part of thw week. Henderson intends to ship his outfit direct to Torono about April 15 to await the | opening of the Woodbine Park meeting. Jockey Harry Stutts. who has been visiting his parents at Hot Springs. Ark., since the Jefferson Baric meeting, arrived here j Sunday and is now busily engaged galloping : the horses of the Audley Farm Stable. Track superintendent Tom Young has been requested by Mose GoMbtatt to reserve ten stalls at the Downs for the band of H. I*. Whitneys two-year-olds that trainer .James Howe is sending here to be trained by Goldblat. When John S. Ward bought Wise Counsellor last fall fi r a reported price of ?»;•;. 00i lit was the gen-ral impression that someone else was associated with him in the purchase and this impression was not removed when the colt started in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes and Queen Ity Handicap and wheat DS was named In the Kentucky Derby all in Mr. Wards name. nly recently Mr. Wards partner in the cits ownership was revealed si d a few daya ago Ward admitted that Mr. Frederick A. Burton, wealthy mine owner of Chicago, held an Interest in the colt. WAKIis DIKKV KXIKKIKXCi:. In discussing the coming renewal f the ] Derby Mr. Ward recalled the fact that it is the fifth time he has prepared candidates for th.- big race. The nearest lie casta t9 Winning was when EsCObs ran second to Exterminator. The year Q orge Smith won Ward started both franklin and I odge, which finished respectively Ihird sad fourth and Ward behoves thit Franklin would have won had not his rider used him up in chas- I ing Dominant in tne first Hire. -quarters. I Berlin was another that Mr. Ward saddled for the Derby, hut the bOTSC proved to he a false alarm and was beaten off. Mr. Ward says he would surely have won | the Derby with Bean* Itar bad that colt not been taken BJch doting his training period. I onerail, which won the race that year, was a muck inferior horea t i Solur j Star, in Mr. Wards opinion.
