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THE SATRAP SHOWS SPEED Wm. Dupont Jr.s 00,000 Colt Works Five -eighths in 1:00% at Belmont Park. NKW YORK, N. Y., April 14.— Max Hirsch, trainer of The Satrap and other Kentucky-Derby candidates of various owners, said yesterday at Belmont Park that he is well pleased with the progress being made by the 00,000 English colt. The Satrap is training regularly and meeting Hirschs requirements in every particular. After a half-mile breeze in :4! Sunday. Hirsch brought The Satrap out Monday for a more exacting workout on the straight course. In company with Rip Rap and Happy Argo. a four-year-old stablemate, he was given a five-eighths mile speed test. He sprinted the distance in 1 :00*4. Running head and head, the three stepped the first quarter in :25 and the half in %*x.. They went the last « ighth in :125. The Satrap and Rip Rap wer.- eased up after going five-eighths, but Happy Argo continued on for three-quarters, completing the full distance In 1:13%. Black Panther, another Derby candidate, worked an easy mile in 1 :4» . while Bucephalus covered the same distance in 1 :49. Mn that attracted much attention during training hours was War Peathers. the daughter of Man War, which brought 0,500 on the auction block at Saratoga Springs in August, 1H25, when she was a yearling. She worked five-eigths mile in 1 :06. breezing. The costly miss has yet to come to the races. She is training well. Sarazen is another that is training exceptionally well. He breezed three-quarters with Social Mug in 1 ilT. Trainer Hirsch declares that the erratic gelding is going about his duties with a better disposition than he has ever before displayed. He is being pointed for the early stakes in Maryland and New York, and Hirsch believes that he will account for several of them. «
