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taGH FOOTS NEW MARK Covers Mile in 1:42, Fastest of Training Season at Downs. Trainer Partridge Well Pleased With Work Gallant Knight in Short Speed Gallop. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. April 29 High Foot, the Chicago-owned Derby candidate, set a new training mark at one mile for other eligibles to the "classic" to shoot at. when lie ran a mile in 1:42, the fastest of the present training season over the Louisville course. High Foot showed an abundance of early speed, breaking at the stand and being joined at the five-furlong post by Herendeen. He .was timed in the fractional time of :23, 1:48 75, 1:01, 1:14. 1:38 for the first seven furlongs. Herendeen was timed his five furlongs in 1 :0S"4. High Foot was a bit tired at the finish and his pilot was urging him ai the end, but it was a brilliant speed test, as while the track was fact, it was still a bit ciippy. Trainer Partridge was well pleased with the move and his charge cooled out nicely after being returned to his barn. Playtime and All Upset, the Southland Stables pair of Darby candidates, were sent for a six-furlong spin by trainer Frank P. Letellier and he broke them at the six-furlong post and worked them to the stand. All Upset was timed in 1 :16, while Playtime was caught in 1 :17and. The first half "Was covered in :24, :49. BILLY CHAMP AD THE UT. -Trainer Tommy Taylor had as his guest Gilbert Mastin, business agent of the Warm Stable, when he sent Billy Champ, the Derby candidate, and The Nut for a mile from the stand in 1 :45. The Nut. breaking about a length and one-half off Billy Champ, overtook him at the half and raced on even terms with the Derby colt into the stretch, where Billy Champ drew away from him and finished out the distance breezing, while The Nut was going handily at the finish. The first half was covered in :51 ; six furlongs in 1:17. Prince Atheling, John Marschs Derby candidate, was taken from the van by trainer Cecil Howard and worked a mile in the fractional time of :53, 1:20, 1:49, breezing. Kay Spence sent the Audley Farm Stables Derby colt, Gallant Knight, a sharp breeze in :50. 1 :03 for five furlongs. Maudlin showed a three-furlongs move in :38 for trainer Mose Lowenstein. Cady Hill was breezed five furlongs in :49, 1:03 by trainer Tommy Taylor. The Nut and Cady Hill will likely take the place of Victorian in the Clark Handicap, to be run the opening day of the Downs Spring meeting on Saturday, May 10. H. D. Simpson has three horses in ihis stable at Churchill Downs : the three-year-bid filly Sky High ; Spanish Play, a bay colt by Spanish Prince II. Anna Horton, by Wrack, and a bay colt, named My Sheik, hy Baigneur Tinker Toy, by The Manager. These colts are entered in The Harold, Cincinnati Trophy and Queen City Handicap at Latonia. SPANISH LAY SPEEDY. Spanish Play is one of the fastest juveniles at the Downs and both colts outlook any two-year-olds at the course. Of good "bone and substance, plenty of size, they are picture horses. Whileaway, owned and developed by Simpson, was sold to Mose Gold-blatt last year for 0,000, and Master Star, a recent winner, was also owned by Simpson. Wm. Bartholomew, who raced a division of the Miss Blanche Watson stable at Wheeling, shipped his charges to Chicago to join other horses of the Watson stable and returned to Louisville. Col. R. L. Baker of Lexington was a visitor at the Downs. Jockey J. Parmalee has signed to ride for Jake Lowenstein this sprig and reported to his employers stable this morning. He is a brother-in-law to Elmo Shropshire, who married his sister this winter and later signed up to ride for trainer Mose Lowenstein of the Le Mar Stock Farm Stable.
