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LOUISVILLE ACTIVITIES • Unfavorable Track Conditions Fail to Deter Trainers. Parkview Stables Rhinock Displays Speed in Three -Quarters Mile Workout — Other Times. % POLISVIPLP. Ky.. April 10.— Despite continued unfavorable track conditions at Churchill Downs this morning training operations went on apace and before the morning work hours had terminated some useful Derby trials had been witnessed. While there was no work that stood out with any great prominence the performance of the Tark View Stables Phinock. one of the most potential of the Western-owned candidates for the rich prize commanded considerable attention. This was due to the easy manner in which the son of Prince Pal and Rose of Poses accomplished his task of covering • three-quarters in 1 :22. Royal Omar, a stable-mute and also a Derby eligible, went out with Phinock and kept pace with him for the half, then dropped bark. The pair began at the three-quarters post and the watches ticked off the first quarter in :1*/:, and the half in :54. This and ether trials were over a heavy and lumpy track. .1. 11 Maddens Derby hope Pocky Pane, with jockey Danny McAuliffe aboard, was asked by Chuck Walker to go a mile. The fcon of Priar Pock showed to good advantage when he rattled off the three-eigths in -A%, half in , ..Vr.. three-quarters in 1 :23*s and the mile in 1 :53. TAMAI.E OK K IMPROVES. Tamale Dick, one of the less regarded of the candidates, continues to show improvement under the bundling of trainer Pon Jones. This colt ran a half-mile in :53. Haste paraded in front of nine other three-year-olds ■ from the .1. K. Widencr barn, the set galloping a couple of miles at a slow gait. Other works included Captain Hals five-eighths in lOti and King Nadis three-quarters in 1:18%. Judge Charles F. Price, assistant manager of the Kentucky .Tockey Club, and who up to last year served as steward at Churchill 1 owns and Patonia for many years, re-turned to his home in this city Friday morning from Naples, Fla., where he had been spending his thirteenth annual winter vacation. Judge Price arrived here in the best of health and the long period of recreaton appears to have been of much benefit, for he said he was fully prepared to take up his duties for the coming season. He was an early visitor at Churchill Downs this morning conferring with 1 . K. OSullivan. regarding some important details relating to the coming meeting at that track. AKHIVAI.S FROM TAMPV. Horsemen that were in attendance at the re, . n; Tampa meeting continue to arrive here. This morning Pat Gallahe-r and Krnest White were included in the list of arrivals. Callaher served as one of the placing judges, while White was employed as assistant to the manager of the | ari-mutuel department. Both make their home in this city. I r. J. T. Chawk. another resident of Pouisville. returned this morning from Tampa, where he had served as paddock judge. Dr. Chawk has occupied a similar position on the Kentucky tracks for over six years. Jockey J. H. Burke was among the riding colony that arrived from the West Coast track. C.eorge Powe. well known docker, got in from Hot Springs, where he had been rusticating since the close at New Orleans. Harned Brothers of this city have sold Colfin. a five-year-old bay mare, by The ].i„n — Colleen, to W. W. Harden, who will use her as a brood mate at his farm near Nashville. Tenn. W. 1 . Piimegan. trainer of the Mrs. P. J. Lavin stable, arrived from Tampa for a short visit to his home here. He will leave shortly for New York, to which place the ■tables horses hav already been shipped. Starter William Hamilton arrived this morning from his home In Ho! Springs. rV.. Where he lias been sitae just before the close .f the Mobile meeting. He lost no time in netting "it to Churchill Downs to supervise tie- work of schooling the two-year-olds to the barrier, which work has been look d after by Jack Hodgkins. one of his assistants. W. H Hall, who a year or so ICO owned ten or twelve good hoi ses. arrived from Tampa His stab!, has been reduced to one horse. this bfiifj the five year-old Hh:h Prince
