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! : ! ! i s I s i - ; 3 r - r l i r i t r r SENSATIONAL GALLOP ; Gallant Knight Startles Work Watchers at Churchill Downs. Audley Farms Derby Hope Goes Mile and a Quarter in 2 :09 Vs . in Great Style. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. April 16. The West showed a formidable Derby candidate in Gallant Knight, the Audley Farm Stables, representative, this morning, which made the trainers of other eligibles for the "classic" set up and take notice, when he worked a mile and one-quarter in 2 :00. Trainer Kay Spence sent Gallant Knight out with Easter Stockings, which paced him for the first seven furlongs and dropped out at the mile post. H. Schutte was astride Gallant Knight and "Willie Kern had the leg up on the filly. The colt was timed in the fractional time of :25, :50, 1:03, l:16ys. 1:30, 1 :43, 1 :56 for the first mile and one-eighth. This registers the best mark for a mile and one-quarter turned by any Derby candidate in the West this season and the brown colt will be fit as a fiddle for his engagement in the "classic," if he meets with no mishaps before the race is decided on Saturday, May 17. Trainer Spence was naturally well pleased with the colts performance and feels that he has a real Derby horse .this year. High Foot was breezed a half mile in :50, going his first three furlongs in :36. The trial of J. "W. Parrishs Stock Market, which was worked by trainer "Willie Crump, with Woodlot, upon whom Crump set the pace for the chestnut colt, was a good one. Crump broke three lengths in front of Stock Market at the stand and led all the way, but was only a neck to the good at the finish of the mile. Stock Market was timed in :27, :53M, 1 :20, 1 :-16, while Woodlot ran his mile in 1:47. Rich Widow, a candidate for the Kentucky Oaks in tne Parrish Stable, went a mile in 1:4.7. Sam Wooldridge was worked with Suitor, the former having C. Bender in the saddle and the latter the veteran jockey, C. Ross. Sam Wooldridge outran Suitor all the way and was timed in :12, :24, :38, :51, 1:05 and 1:20 by trainer C. N. Lewis. Trainer- owner Lewis blew out his Derby candidate Devlin for three-quarters in 1:20. Trainer Bryant Ott of the French Lick Stable breezed The Senator, the Derby eligi-. ble from this barn, in :37 for three-eighths, Jack Spratt was sent a like distance in :37M by trainer Billy Snearley. Sam McDonald, A. E. Barretts Derby can-. didate, went three-quarters in 1:18 and seven-eighths in 1:33 for trainer Eddie Hay-, ward. The Downs course was fast but cuppy. Polk Laffoon, Marvin May and Frank Continued on twentieth page. SENSATIONAL GALLOP Continued from first page. Moore were visitors at the Downs this morning. They witnessed the sensational trial of the two-year-old full brother to Republic, which is by Busy American, from Sherry, by Sweep, which stepped three-eighths for trainer Roscoe Goose in :34fs. There is not as fleet a horse at the track as this juvenile. Nellie Custis, Oui Monsieur and Royal Yeoman, from the Audley Farm Stable, breezed three-quarters in 1:16. James T. Clark and Sam Dinkelspiel were out to the Downs to see Gallant Knight and other Derby candidates work. Mr. Clark is a director in the American Turf Association. Nate Reiser, E. G. Floyd and Sid Gerardi, local sportsmen, were on the line with the rail birds this morning. Mose Goldblatt shipped by express the Derby candidate, and Ashland Oaks eligible Niato, along with Gotoit, Grizel, Golden West, On the Air, Blot and Pollywog to Lexington in charge of Con Hogan, his foreman. IC Russell will go to Lexington to ride on opening day. Jockey Carl Meyer will only take stake mounts during the Kentucky Association meeting and report to the clerk of the scales the day of the race in which- he has a mount. P. A, Nash and Tom Nash, of the Valley Lake Stable, which has the good Derby colt High Foot, arrived from their home in Chicago this morning and will take in the races at Lexington on Thursday. Charles E. Durnell shipped Berland, Jennie D. and Charlotte H. to Lexington, to T. P. Hayes, who will race them at the meeting. H. W. Millers Sliding and Butler Sweep also went to the Blue Grass track from the Durnell Stable. Fred Hood, business agent for the Durnell Stable, will run down to Lexington Thursday moriing. Sam H. Stone, breeder and owner of Louisville, reports the birth of a chestnut colt, by Dress Parade Easter Shadow: a chestnut colt, by Supremus Glyndon, and a bay filly, by Supremus Whisklet, at his farm in Jefferson County. J. W. Parrish has a chestnut colt, by Rolled Stocking Rosewood, the dam of Blackwood and Stock Market, which was foaled at this farm at Midway, on April 14. i
