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CRACK COLT STIMULUS Being Carefully Prepared for Preakness and Derby. • Eis Owner, Marshall Field, Sees Him Gallop Through the Mud at Belmont Park. — ♦ - There is no more popular Kentucky Derby candidate among Chicago sportsmen than Marshall Fields Stimulus, though W. Daniels Master Charlie has many admirers among the local devotees of racing. From all indications Stimulus will be a starter in both the Preakness and Kentucky Derby. Word from New York is that trainer George Odom is giving Stimulus a careful preparation for the big three-year-old stakes in which he is entered. He has had the colt galloping at Belmont Park for some time and while the early preparation consists of slow gallops. Stimulus is already showing the effects of it and appears ready for more serious work whenever his trainer so decides. Marshall Field III. visited Belmont Park Wednesday morning to see Stimulus work an easy mile through the deep, sticky mud of the training track. The colt was never extended, and, accompanied by his stable companion, II. L. Gerrys Peanuts, he completed the distance easily in 1 :50. Beginning at the quarter mile post. Stimulus, with F. Coltiletti up, and Peanuts, with the promising young apprentice II. Harris in the saddle, raced through the mud at an even pace. Peanuts was doing his best, but Stimulus was just cantering from the start. They went the first quarter in :26 and came to the half in :51%. The three-quarters mark was reached in 1:19% and they completed the mile in 1 :50. Stimulus came out of the gallop fresh and full of energy. He j ! cooled out quickly and appeared to be close : to racing condition. | I The son of Ultimus and Hurakan has filled out during the winter until he is a really, I impressive looking horse. His conformation , is excellent and he appears to carry little surplus flesh. His muscular development is : exceptional and already he has the sleek, well-groomed appearance of a fit horse. ODOM TAKING HIS TIME. Trainer George Odom is not rushing the colts training, however. With the Kentucky Derby still some six weeks away, he is in no hurry about bringing Stimulus to a tine edge. But thus far the Field colt has done everything asked of him so easily and impressively that experts who have been watching his preparation are hailing him as the best Derby pre spect among these now training In the ICast. Little H. Harris, who rode Peanuts in the gallop, is one of trainer Odoms apprentices. | He gained a great deal of valuable experience ! at Havana during the past winter and toward the close of the meeting his work was showing such improvement that many horsemen considered him the most promising development of the winter at the Cuban track. I The condition of the training track prevented i anything approaching fast work Tuesday. A number of horses were out for slow exercise but only a few were really sent along at a pace which would justify timing them. I HE A LEY PREPARES FOR HAVRE. I Trainer T J. Healey, of the R. T. Wilson and W. J. Salmon stables, refused to allow unfavorable conditions to prevent him from going ahead with the training of the horses which he intends to race at Havre de Grace, however. The seven horses which will form his Havre de Grace string were given useful works. He sent Senalado and Campfire Tales, which are being pointed for the Derby, a mile in 1 :52. They went the first quarter mile in 25%, the half in 52, three-quarters in 1 :19% and finished out the mile handily in 1 :52. Both are close to racing condition. Trip Lightly and Chrysalis, the stables Oaks i . candidates, went a mile handily in 1 :52%. Extra Dry was given a mile in 1 :54% and I was never asked for spved. Pixola and Wampee, working together, went a mile in 1 :56 under restraint. Devonshire, the Salmon Derby candidate, worked a mile handily in company with Wilderness in 1 :50. Wilderness is training soundly and it is apparently trainer Healeys intention to bring him to the post in the rich Dixie. Handicap at Pimlico. Robert Odoms Sumpter, another Derby candidate, was sent an easy mile under restraint in 1:52%. He went the first quarter mile in 26, the half in 53 and the three-quarters in 1 :22. , »
