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TOKEN IN CONDITION * One of the Whitney Derby Hopes Training Satisfactorily. ♦ Plenty of Work at Churchkill Downs — Jockey W. Garner Reports to Pete Coyne. i T.OlTSVILLK. Ky.. April 5.— Token, one of Harry Payne Whitneys Derby candidates in local training, grave abundant proof of his advanced stage of preparation when this morning at Churchill Downs, over a slow track that was deep in spots, lie galloped three-cpiarters In 1:M and pulled up sound. It was the best Derby work of the spring season. The son of Pennant and Remembrance, with a stable boy aboard, began at the three-quarters post and worked to the stand. With an even, friotionless stride he covered the half in :19. and the five-eighths in 1:02. He was practically eased up to finish out the three-quarters in 1:16. Horsemen who witnessed the work were of the opinion that there is no fitter horse at the track than Token. Mose Coldblatts crack filly. Teak, a stable-mate of Token and an eligible to both the Kentucky Derby and Oaks, also showed ad-aneed racing conditi mi when she rattled off three-quarters in 1:17. Nocturnal went the distance in 1:-2. Tamale Dick, which is being trained by I.on Jones, went out accompanied by Bertram, a stablemate. and reeled off three-eighlhs in :o8% and a half mile in There were a number of other gallops that were noted by the workout watchers. You-are and Overall, from the Whitney barn, went out together and worked five-eighths in 1 :0:i and finished the three-quarters in 1 :17. Coronation, from the same stable, rattled off five-eighths in 1:03%. ],FK O. OTNER DOING WELL. bM O. Cotner appeared to good advantage when he went a half in 1 :03-r.. Mayhap and Mandolette. a pair of juveniles in the barn of Theo B Mueller, were brought out, and in the presence of their owner, displayed good speed by going a quarter in :24. Jockey Willie Garner, who rode Kentucky Cardinal in the Oof froth Handicap, arrived at the Downs this morning and lost no time in reporting to Tete Coyne, his contract employer. Garner, en route from Tiujana. stopped over for a day at his home in Oenterville, Iowa. The boy, who proved to be quite a riding sensation during the first half of the New Orleans winter season, but whose work during the closing weeks proved somewhat of a disappointment, due to ill health, has fully recovered and says be expects to ride this spring better than ever. He will keep in riding condition by helping to gallop the horses of his employer. Carrier is eighteen years of age and is a nephew of jockey Mack Garner. He can scale 103 pounds and, owing to his apprentice allow ranee, bis services ought to be in much demand during the coming season. He rode his first winning race on Pindar Peel at Churchill Downs May 25 of last year. Garner stated that Mose Shapoff. trainer of the G. F. Croissant stable, would reach here from Tijuana in the course of a few days. Shapoff is declared to have said the Croissant stable will start Roycroftcr, Pigeon Wing 11. and Belle in the Kentucky 1 K-rby. FISILEEIt BACK IN TRAINING. The four-year-old Fusileer, which had been turned out since last fall at Theo. B Muellers Shady Brack Farm, was brought to the Downs today by trainer Jim Moody and put back in training. Dr. C. N. Finch, well-known specialist, arrived from Lexington, where he had performed operations for wind trouble on Col. Hoard and Kittle Glory, both in the ■table of Mose I,ii« -enstein. I r. Finch will perform a number of similar operations at Churchill Downs. w. c. Weant reported that his mare Brla l.ee had foaled a hay colt by Prince Pal, at the Weant farm near this city. Mose Coldhlatt, who has been at Proow-aale fam in New Jersey, conferring with .lames Lowe of the II p. Whitney stable, is due to reach her.- Tuesday. During his ■bar act Pen WalteW is in charge of the .stable. Jockey Matt Skyrm returned from a vtoft to his home in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Waaalnatoa, a two jwear-eM colt, by Cudgel -Miss Jemima, owned by Charles K. Howe, has been fired by Dr. G. B Mackin-V * h.
