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OSMAND IN GRAND FETTLE . * Kentucky Derby Favorite Shows No Sign of Recent Injury. ♦ Wiileners Hope in BI§r Race, With Sande Up, Works Impressive Mile — King Nadi on Edge in Clark Handicap. ♦ LOCISVILLE, Ky., May 4.— Trainer P. J. Coyne sent the Derby choice, Osmond, over a mile distance at the Downs this morning. His gallop of five-eighths of yesterday in 1 :01Vs. was in the nature of an opening up spin in preparation for his work this morning. Sande piloted the big chestnut, which had all his high flight of speed in the early-part of* the journey, but he tailed off in the final eighth, making the mile in 1 :43. The fractional time for the first seven-eighths was :23»3, :4S /5, 1:00%, 1:14 and 1:23. As it has been the better part of a week since Osmand worked over a route of ground, the work was surprisingly good and shows the excellent condition of the gelding. Sande is a fox when it conies to handling a horse and Osmand probably had much more in reserve than an onlooker might have imagined. Caroler, a three-year-old, was run along with Osmand the last five-eighths. Confidence has returned to those connected with the preparation of Osmand for his Derby engagement and joy could be read on the faces of Sande, trainer Coyne and others connected with the stable as the big chestnut son of Sweepster came back in good condition and cooled out nicely, walking around the barn. Creek Indian, the Audley Farm Stables Derby candidate, looked after by Kay Spenoe, and Canaan, the representative of the Le Mar Stock Farm Stable, which is in charge of Charles H. Hughes, were galloped together a mile in the fraction time of :25, :50, 1 :17, 1:44%. Scotland, the J. Swigert Taylor candidate for the big race, turned in an easy mile in 1 :52. King Nadi, which was allotted 120 pounds in the Clark Handicap on opening day. May 7, went a half mile in .ols, three-quarters in 1:17 and covered the mile easily in 1 :44%. Mr. Kirkwood, belonging to J. C. Milam, which reached the Downs Tuesday, was cantered a mile. He worked a mile and one-quarter before leaving Lexington, in 1 :05Vs. Hydromel and Noreaster. the Camden Continued on sixteenth p:ige OSMAND IN GRAND FETTLE Continued from fir -t pnee pair, which arrived at the track on the same train which brought the D. Taylor and Milam horses, were limbered up with slow canters. The track was muddy after the hard rains of Tuesday night, but it had a hard, firm bottom to it when the Derby horses worked this morning. It will l e necessary for track superintendent Tom Young to have his crew harrow it this afternoon and, witli no more rainfall, the course will be lightning fast Thursday. A number of stables are due from I.*-xing-ton this afternoon with the following trainers. . i". Vanm-t-r. who has [tolled Stocking in his cam; Danny Stewart. the tamden trainer: J. . Milam, trainer of his own ; horses, and Tommy Taylor, trainer of the J. Swigert Taylor horses. Prominent among them are the Idle Hour Farm Stable with thirty-six, A. Thomas with t Aeiity-foiir. and Johnny Schorr with the horses he raced on the Maryland circuit, wlieih will join War Kagle and other horses in the M -l«ean Stable.
