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SPRINGS FASTEST TRIAL Gallant Knight Works Out Three-Quarters in 1:13. Audley Farm Candidate Continues to Show Pine Performances in Training Higk Poof Breezes a Mile. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 23. GallaUt Knight, the son of imported Bright Knight Ethel Gray, the Kentucky Derby hope of the Audley Farm Stable, again gave evidence of his advanced physical condition when he stepped the fastest three-quarters of a mile turned in at Churchill Downs this spring. The track was the fastest it has been this season and all horses working over it showed much faster time in their trials. Trainer Spence hooked the fast filly Nellie Ctistis in with Gallant Knight and the pair broke at the three-quarters pole, H. Schutte being on the colt and Willie Kern on the filly. The first quarter was covered in :23, half in :48 and six furlongs in 1:13. The colt was not distressed in the least by his trial and cooled out perfectly after being walked about his barn. The stock of this colt has risen like a flash since he began to show his superb condition in his trials, even up to the Derby route of one mile and a quarter. High Foot, the Derby favorite, was sent a mile by trainer J. B. Partridge with his owners, Messrs. Nash, watching their colt circle the Downs oval. His fractional time was :25, :51, 1:17 and 1:44, breezing. Stock Market, J. W. Parrishs Derbycan-didate, was worked with Dr. Parrish for a mile, being eased up the last eighth in 1:44. The fractional time was :24, :3C, :48, 1:15 and 1:29 for the first seven furlongs. Trainer "Bill" Crump was well pleased with the showing of the Parrish Derby representative, which was on the outside of Dr. Parrish all the way, and while outrun in the early stages, he overhauled his opponent and was going along strongly at the finish. Prince Atheling and Play Ball, the John Marsch pair of Derby eligibles, were breezed together by trainer Cecil Howard for six furlongs in i :15. The fractional time for the half was :23 ; :48. Trainer Frank P. Letellier sent the Southland Stables All Upset a fast half .mile in :35 and :48. Richard McDonald was opened up three furlongs in :25 and :38. This Derby representative of A. E. Barrett, Chieago owner, will be set down for a longer trial by trainer Eddie Hayward on Thursday. Jack Spratt was breezed a quarter in :25, and W. H. Snearley, his trainer, will send him out for more speed in the next few days. Graham Brown, owner of several horses at the Downs in the charge of Tom Sanford, had Judge Eugene Daily as his guest at his stable this morning to look over his stock. Sewell S. Combs is training several horses for Mr. Brown at Lexington. Mose Lowenstein left for Lexington to attend the annual meeting of the Thoroughbred Horsemens Association, which will be held tonight. Jack P. Cliinn, of Leonatus Stud, near Louisville, reports the foaling of a brown colt by Noah out of La Donna Mobila, by Sweep, at the farm. Miss Blanche Watsons mare, Burnt Orange, dropped a bay filly by Best Pal. She will be bred back to the same sire. La Donna Mobila: will go to the court of Harry Baker, which is standing at the Leonatus Farm.
