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TRAINING OPERATIONS * « Drowsy Waters Does Well in Gallop at Downs. • i Other Derby Candidates Given Useful Work — Louisville Turf Notes. ] • j J LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 22— The most ! ambitious Derby gallop at Churchill Downs this morning- was when Dan Lehans home- ! bred maiden colt Drowsy Waters went a mile -in 1:44% and galloped out an extra eighth in 1:58%. The trial suplemented the one the colt showed last Saturday when he ran the mile in 1 :43%. The latest work of the son ; of Cataract and Bronze Wing was the best he had shown this spring and drew words of ■ praise from the onlookers. The colt, with ! jockey A. Claver up, went at a remarkably • even pace, and this was evident by the fact ! that first and final quarters were covered in precisely the same time. :26%. The fractions J | were: :26%. :52%. 1:18. 1:44%. The colt I I pulled up sound and without showing any signs of distress. The morning was ideal for training opera- tions and all of the Derby aspirants were out for some kind of work. Russell Cave, one of the least considered candidates for the Derby, i j showed his best move of the spring season | when he ran a mile in 1 :45%. Jefferson I Livingstons Derby hope, Pol Roger, ac-quitted himself satisfactorily when he went | out and reeled off three-quarters in 1 :17. going the quarter in :24% and the half in :u0. The colt was accompanied by Evelyn, the Livingstons Oaks candidate. BRAVE BOB SHOWS SPEED. Johnny Ferriss called upon Brave Bob to go along for a journey of five-eighths, and with Climax, a stablemate, as pacemaker, the colt rattled off the quarter in :24%, the half in :49% and the five-eighths in 1 :03. Ragtime, accompanied by Headache, ran a quarter in :23% and the half in :49-?s. Kit-cat II. went a slow three-quarters. Our General, regarded as the William Ziegler chief Derby eligible, was out for an | airing and was cantered a mile. j Quatrain, accompanied by the stable pony, i jogged a couple of times around the course j and displayed no signs of soreness. | Captain Hal and Lee O. Cotner were also | ; galloped a couple of miles. Trainer Frank ; Stevens of the Livingston stable, was highly | : elated after Buster Levoy and Humorette I turned in a mile at 1 :43. The trio raced well bunched for the entire way. Sanola was worked five-eighths in 1 :02%. J. E. Smith, local Standard Oil official, and a personal friend of William Ziegler, Jr., i j was host to a party of Standard Oil officials ! Wednesday. The visitors inspected Our General, | Borderland, Needle Gun and the other: i horses of the Ziegler stable, and were most j ■ favorably impressed. The party included j A. Clark Bedford of New York and Charles ; O. Sholder and T. II. Taylor of New Orleans. i Owner Zeigler, who was scheduled to sail I i • from Southampton for New York April 18, I j has deferred his departure until next Saturday. GAMESTERS CHANCES SLI.M. Dr. M. W Tritehler, veterinary surgeon of Cincinnati, who was called here to attend the sick horses in the Carl Wiedemann stable, reported that Gamester, the stables Kentucky Derby eligible, was suffering with pleuro and that the chances for the colts j | ultimate recovery were mighty slim. I The stables of S. J. Kelley, J. B. Partridge and J. L. Paul were transferred Wednesday morning to Lexington. Jim Moody also took along a consignment of Theodore K. Muellers stable. J. O. Keene was a visitor at the Downs, coming over to witness the trials of his two-year-olds. He was most favorably impressed with the fast work of the fwly Pagan Princess. Dr. C. N. Finch of Jefferson returned from Lexington, where he nad operated for wind trouble on W. C. Goodloes Cassius. There is very slight improvement in the condition of K. G. Floyds four-year-old colt Booster and the attending veterinary holds out but slight hope for his recovery. William Vititoe has been engaged to train the horses of E. W. Newman. New Orleans turfman. The horses were sent Wednesday to Iexington. Silent iJHian. a member of the stable, has been turned out. Frederick Good, manager of the Parkview Stable, went to Lexington to inspect a couple of horses that he may desire to purchase. Charles G. Middleton, Louisville member of the State Racing Commission, was a visitor at the Downs Wednesday morning. Jockey J. Sipholz, under contract to the Frederick Johnson stable, has applied for an apprentice license, and will ride at the Downs i meeting. Doc Foucon. trainer of the Four Oaks Stock Farm Stable, is going to try and make a jockey of Jimmie Guy, seventeen-year-old lad from Mobile, Ala., who has been galloping • horses for the past year. The youngster can i make 93 pounds and Foucon believes ha has i the making of a first-rate rider.
