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1 i ; 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 : 1 1 1 1 JACK SPRATT WORKING WELL With Heavy Boy Up Colt Goes Six Furlongs in l:16Vp. High Foot Is Given Easy Canter for Throe-Eightlis of a aiilc Three Ds Candidates on. Track. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 1. Jack Spratt, the Watson and McCaffrey Derby candidate, showed the best move of any of the eligibles for the classic in training at Churchill Downs this morning. He went six furlongs in :16and. He was accompanied in his trial by J. P. Chinns Big Stuff and the pair went head and head together for trainer Snearley, but Jack Spratt, with more than his Derby weight up, was pulling to Big Stuff all the way. The fractional time for the first five furlongs was :2S, :4S, 1:01. The Downs was at its best this morning, the going being fast and plenty of spring to the soil, after the rain of Tuesday and the harrowing it got before Gallant Knight worked Wednesday afternoon. Roll Em Down, the Derby candidate of Mrs. Eva M. Delozier, turned a handy six furlongs in 1:19, his first half being run in :52. Trainer Everman has him toned down and he never made a bobble in his work this morning, hanging close to the rail all the way. The colt showed a tendency to bear out in his recent works, but this morning he ran as true as a die. Devlin, the C. N. Lewis Derby candidate, was given a six furlongs breeze in 1:21. High Foot was cantered three furlongs In :37 by trainer Partridge, who exacted little of him as he could have gone the distance in better than :36 had he been asked for a fast move. Broadway Limited and Kilkerry, the Derby candidates from the Three Ds Stable, breezed three furlongs for trainer Vestal in :37, both being well in hand. Richard McDonnell was sent three furlongs by trainer Hayward in :37. He is training in good shape for his Derby engagement, although lightly regarded, as he is still a maiden. Stock Market, from the stable of J. W. Parrish, was given a slow five furlongs in :51, 1:04, but he was simply breezing. Trainer Bill Crump will send him over a longer route of ground toward the end of the week. John Reed has brougbt in from the National Stock Farm of Lon Jones the good plater Dan Burnham, owned by Herbert Woolf of Kansas City, Mo., who is one of the biggest saddle horse breeders in the country. The horse was turned out last fall and looks good after his long. rest. J. B. Respess string at the Downs was increased by new arrivals from Lexington. Katie McCook, a three-year-old, and six two-year-olds were received at his barn at the Downs on Wednesday. The two-year-olds are Kentuckian, The Widower, Little Paris, Lioness, His Honor and "United. Trainer Art Goldblatt motored to Lexington this morning on business. J. B. Respess will be at the Downs shortly, having gone to his home in Covington from Lexington when his horses were shipped to the Louisville track. Lon Jonson worked Royal Julian, W. H. Whitehouses candidate for the Clark Handicap, to be run on opening day, May 10, a mile in 1 :17.
