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NO PRETENTIOUS GALLOPS — i Rain of Sunday Slows Down Training at Louisville. 1 Quatrain Gains Additional Admirers— Mark Master Works Well at Douglas Park. ♦ LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 27.— The refin of Sunday left the Churchill Downs course a difficult track to run over this morning and as a result training operations were kept down to slow time. There was a marked drop in the temperature, however, which was a great relief from the unseasonably hot weather of the past week and which was beginning to affect quite a few horses here. The only work over a long distance of ground at Churchill Downs was that of Dan Lehans colt Drowsy Waters. This Derby eligible was sent a mile and an eighth under a fair weight impost. He showed up well in going over the drying out course and was in hand the first mile. The fractions were: :25. :52%. 1:19%. 1:47% and 2:01%. He was tiring at the end. Frederick Johnsons Quatrain worked three-eighths of a mile in :39% in a highly satisfactory manner. Horsemen here are quite enthusiastic on this colt, which is training well and looks better every day. The slow track did not appear to have any effect on the colts action to any noticeable degree. He has gained additional followers during the past week, due to his level-headed actions and general good appearance. Borderland and Needle Gun went a rather easy half in :54 together. Boon Companion galloped a half at a trifle less than a two-minute clip and Pyroot went three-eighths of a mile in :38%. Fair Vision and Baalbec galloped three-quarters in :25, :52 and 1 :1S% together. Louis Rubenstein went three-quarters in 1:21, the first half in :52. At Douglas Park, where rain also fell on Sunday, the track was good and horses raised dust clouds when they galloped. The International Stables Mark Master, which is training well for the Derby, turned in the best work of the day when he was sent a mile and an eighth in 1:58, with the first part covered in creditable time. The fractions were: :24%, :49, 1:15% and 1:43%. The news that Master Charlie had gone wrong and would not he a Derby starter aroused keen interest at both of the local tracks. Horsemen here regarded his chances very highly in the event that he went to the post. «
