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BELMONT PARK TRAINING Horsemen Permitted to Use Main Track — Number of Derby Candidates Take Exercise. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 7.— For the first time this year the main track at Belmont Park was open today to the horsemen who are training their charges at the Westchester Pacing Associations big course. Many trainers transferred their activities from the deep training course and sent their horses over the faster racing strip, although their pace was not speeded up unduly. The track was good after the rains early in the week. Max Ilirsch, who has such a large public stable in training at Belmont Park that he cannot name all the members of his string without referring to his card index, had three of his four Kentucky 1 erhy candidates out. These were the Sage Stables Pip Bap, William DuPonts JIOO.OOO importation. The Satrap, and A. C. Schwartz Kentucky II., another outlander. Sam Harris Terry is the other member of Hirschs Derby quartet, but he remained in his barn. Pip Pap and Kentucky I[. worked together and their effort was highly satisfactory. They were sent cne mlie in 1 :4." . Punning head and head, they covered the first quarter in :li6. They passed the half mile post in andS% and the three-quarters mark in 1 :20%. The final quarter was the fastest, :24%. Bip Bap was well in hand at the end, going a bit easier than his alien running mate. The Satraps gallop was limited to three-quarters, which he covered, in company with Pillotta. in 1 :20. The Ooodstone Stables colt broke about one second ahead of The Satrap. The imported colt quickly overtook him, and they finished head and head. Walter J. Salmons chief I »erby hope. Black Panther, galloped a slow mile in 1 :." 7. while his stablemates. Teheran and Bucephalus — the latter one of the five foreign thoroughbreds in the Derby this year — went the same distance in 1 :50, breezing. Bois de Bose and Wee Burn, which may carry the colors of William Zeigler, Jr., in the great Kentucky race, were given their first workouts since the stable arrived at Belmont Park from their quarters at Pine-hurst, N. C. They galloped together, covering seven-eighths in 1 :.i!t~. The only other Derby hope seen under saddle was Mrs. Louise Viaus Colden Pennant. Hi- was worked three-eighths in :.17. A high wind swept the Belm nt Park track ■arias workouts. Horses which g.illcped one mile faced it for five-eighths of the distance.
