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GALLOPS DERBY ROUTE ♦ Lee 0. Cotner Makes Splendid Showing at Downs. ♦ Swope Goes Fast Three -Quarters at Douglas Park — Quatrain Only Canters. —. — ♦ LOUISVILLE, Ky.. April 17.— In one of the most brilliant trials of the spring training season Lee O. Cotner, which is carded to carry the colors of R V. Collins in the Kentucky Derby, ran a mile at the Downs track this morning in the good time of 1:42%. He was galloped out the mile and a quarter in 2:12%, it being the first time this spring any colt had been asked to traverse the full Derby route. Although the colt did not run the mile in his latest work in as fast time as his mile gallop of 1:41% of April 8, his showing today was more impressive and far superior to his former meritorious work. He showed up to better advantage and went about his task in such an easy manner. After being pulled up he showed little or no fatigue. Jockey Harry Garner had the leg up on the Collins colt and he piloted him according to the instructions of trainer Lon Jones. The colt carried near to his Derby weight. He had Bourbon Boy again as pacemaker, but the four-year-old could not make the Derby colt extend himself and was outrun all the way. Running in his usual faultless style and close to the ground, Lee O. Cotner was under a steadying pull all the way. He went along at a pretty even pace, as told by the following fractions: :24%, :49%, 1:15% and 1:42%. He was galloped out the mile and an eighth in 1:56%, and the full Derby route in 2:12%. Both owner Collins and trainer Lon Jones were immensely pleased with the trial. Mr. Jones declared that the colt went just as he had desired he would go and said that he ran easier than in any previous work. "It was tnc best and most useful work he has ever had and he did not blow or tire at all," declared the colts trainer, as he was being cooled out. SWOPE IU CONDITION. The fastest three-quarters of the spring training season was hung up at Douglas j Park during the morning, when "Bud" Fishers Derby hope Swope ran the distance in 1:14%, and pulled up sound. The colt had | Nellie Morse, last years Preakness winner, j as a pacemaker, and the mare appeared to good advantage and appeared to be fit, although she could not outrun the Derby colt. The latter, with a heavy boy astride, began with his stable companion at the three-quarters post out of the chute and showing good speed, led the mare for the entire distance. The Derby colt was caught the quarter in :25 and the half in :49. It was Swopes last tryout at the local track, for on next Tuesday he, together with the other fifteen horses under Gordons care will be placed aboard the cars and transferred to Jamaica. From that track he will be sent | to Pimlico, to start in the Preakness and after that stake will be returned to Louisville for his Derby engagement. All of the /Bud" Fisher horses have wintered in splendid condition and will leave here in an advanced stage of training. This applies more particularly to Swope. Light showers that began falling about nine oclock did not interfere with training operations at either track for trainers anticipating the rain had hurried with their tasks and were through before a steady downpour began. Both tracks prior to the rain were somewhat deep and cuppy and not at their best. CAREFUL WITn QUATRAIN. Quatrain was out on the track, but was only cantered a couple of miles. The colt appears to have gotten over his slight soreness and apparently will soon be as well as ever. Owner Johnson, who was at the track, stated that when he examined the colt a few days ago he discovered a crack in his right forefoot, and he believes an irritation was caused by the colt picking up a cinder or stone. The Injured foot was bandaged and poulticed and yielded to treatment. As a further precaution owner Johnson has the colts front feet well bandaged whenever he is taken out on the track.. Mr. Johnson announced Friday morning that he had hired jockey Ben Breuning to ride Quatrain In the Ireakness, having received assurances from Admiral Cary T. Grayson, the boys employer, that he could ride. Should Breuning ride well in the Preakness he will have the mount on Quatrain in the Derby. Johnson had tried to secure Harry Stutts to ride Qutarain in the Derby, but found the boy had been engaged a long time ago to pilot Kentucky Cardinal jn the rich event Stutts had the mount on Quatrain in the Ixjuisiana Derby, making a special trip from Miami to ride the colt. Jockey E. Legcrc, who rode Quatrain in most of his raos, and who had been galloping the colt, has lift ttic employ of Mr. Johnson and departed for Now York.
