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MORE DERBYELIGIBLES f Arrive at Louisville to Complete Training for Big Event. ■ Boon Companion and Bankrupt Latest Arrivals — Trainer Regards His Charge Highly. -— • LOUISVILLE. Ky.. April 5.— The ranks of the locally trained Kentucky candidates received two additions Sunday morning when S. A. Cowans Boon Companion, and G. Frank Croissants Bankrupt arrived from Miami to complete their training for the big event of May lfi. Both colts reached here in perfect condition and, having been campaigned at the Florida meeting, are well advanced in their training. Boon Companion headed the list of seven horses that Al Woodman is training for Cowan, while Bankrupt was the star of the aggregation of twelve horses that L. A. Connor has in charge for Croissant. Of the pair. Boon Companion is regarded witli most favor and is a product of Idle Hour Stock Farm. The colt made an enviable record at the Miami meeting. He started in four races and won three of them. In his only unsuccessful start, finished fourth. His best race was his last one. This was a dash of one mile and seventy yards. Al Woodman, a horseman of wide experience, regards Boon Companion highly, and he says he is the best horse he has ever trained. Bankrupt and most of the other horses that constitute the stable of Croissant, formerly raced in the colors of M. Shapoff. of Lou;s -ille. who disposed of them during the winter to their present owner. Shapoff will continue with the stable as business agent, while L. A. Connor will act as trainer. The stable secured quarters at Douglas Park. WHITNKY ASTOFF. Bankrupt, the stables Derby eligible, is a good-sized colt and has grown and broadened out since last fall. He is a chestnut colt by All Cold— Quicksand, by Whisk j I I Broom II.. and is a castoff of tbe H. P. | Whitney stable. He has had abundance of j racing, having started in eighteen races last1 I year and twelve this year. The big crowd that lined the Churchill! I Downs back stretch Sunday morning was not j privileged to witness any outstanding Derby work, as it was an off day for the Derby colts. The stable of J. B. McC.ee got in from Miami. All tbe horses arrived in good condition with the exception of Cloister, which I | had a fever. j James Greene, Louisville business man and j owner of a small stable being trained by I William MulhollaiHl, was at the Downs Sun- day morning. He has arranged to race Six! Pence and Patrick Sarsfield at Lexington. | | 11. J. Karris has just received from Schulen- burg, Texas, a number of horses bred and owned by I r. It. E. Clark, well-known breed-1 er of the Lone Star State, and which will! be raced in the Clark colors. Dave Shaw is a recent arrival at Douglas Park from Xew Orleans. Judge William Shelley was a visitor at Churchill Downs Sunday morning and dis-! tributed the Lexington condition books among the horsemen. Jockey Nick Burger, who rode successfully at the Xew Orleans meetings, is a late ar-1 rival. He will pilot the horses being trained by John Ferris and will have the mount on Brave Bob in the Derby. Walter Kohn. Louisville business man. and a member of the Kentucky State Pacing Commission, was among Sundays visitors at the Downs. *
