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FOMPEY PLEASES TRAINER W. R. Coes Derby Hope Shows Up in Satisfactory Manner. ♦ liilliowce Bring Pointed for Kinps Count Handicap — Vccomplish .nine to I.eington. NBW YORK, X. Y.. April ».— rompey. V. R Coes good three-year-old. continued his Derby training in .a satisfactory manner at T.elmont Bark, when he turned in a pood mile this morning. The son of Sun Briar — Cleopatra was accompanied by Zuker, and at no stage of the journey was he extended. lie was ridden by jockey B. Breuning and went the distance in 1:41. The conditions were not the best for the gallop. The track was sprinkled the night before, and was somewhat slower than earlier in the week. The pair began together and worked head and head ali the way. The first half mile was covered in :" 0, the three quarters in 1 :16i,. Tin pair passed the stand under steady restraint, and were timed for the mile in 1 : » t. Trainer Karrick expressed himself following lie work as highly pleased with the work and said that barring accidents Iompcv «■ uM be shipped to Kentucky. Black Maria. stable mate of Pompey and an eligible for the Prcakness and the Kentucky Oaks, until yesterday morning was the working companion of Pompey. Today she was worked a mile alone, following Pompevs trial. She also was under stout restraint throughout, and was timed in 1 :4!»%. The time for the first three-quarters was 1:16%. The other members of the large stable that Karrick has in his charge were also galloped over shorter distances. Cloudy and threatening weather prevailed at the Nassau County course this morning. I cspite the conditions, there WM an increase in the number of watchers of the morning gallops. Among the first to arrive were Mr. and Mrs. Payne Whitney, who took keen interest in the work of the Creentrce Stable horses, under the care cf trainers Ihillips and Vincent Powers. The main track was still deep In dust, despite the sprinkling of the night before, and horsemen expressed themselves that a good rain would belli the going materially. Ohilhowec. from the Swingalong Stable, with jockey F. Sharpe in the saddle, turned in one of the fastest gallops of the morning. Chilhowee is being pointed for a renewal of the Kings County Handicap to be run at Jamaica. He worked five-eighths unaccompanied in the fast time of 1 :01. At no stage, of the journey was he extended, and finished out with speed in reserve. Alec Cordon had the horses of Bud Fisher, which recently arrived from Louis-ville, on the track early. The horses were Riven useful exercise, while no attempt was made for speed. Banton. the good three-year-old, is looked upon as a certain starter in the Preakness at Pimlico. Cordon is desirous of repeating his victory of a few years ago when he saddled the filly Nellie Morse Cordon reported that Bud Fishers stallion. Sporting Blood, had been served to thirty-five mares at Carr and Piatts Farm, near Bexington. Ky. This is the largest number of mares that have been borught to his court. 1 Hiring the winter months. W. S. Kilmer negotiated for his purchase from Fisher, but the latter refused to sell. J. Simon Healy announced that he would ship the filly Accomplish to Bexington, Ky., to fulfill her engagement in the Centenial Futurity. Accomplish, by Polymelian, from Finis, was regarded as the best of the fillies that have been shown at Miami and ranked high with the colts. Sunsini. which failed to race to his best form last winter, is on the shelf. He w;us taken down with fever when he arrived from the South. Following the close of the Huntington meeting on Monday, the majority of the steeplechasers at Belmont Park will be shipped to Maryland to race at Pimlico. Several are also destined for a Canadian campaign at the Woodbine course. » .
