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GALLANT KNIGHTS TRIAL Audley Farm Derby Hope Works Mile in 139 Fastest for Distance During 1rcscnt Train ¬ ing Season at Downs Busy Shows Speed LOUISVILLE Ky May 3 Gallant Knight the threeyearold son of imported Bright Knight Ethel Gray turned in the fastest Derby trial of the present training season at Churchill Downs when he covered a mile over a fast track this morning in 139 139This This is a sparkling performance and stamps the Audley Farm representative as a serious threat in the Derby He wore blinkers and was accompanied the first half of the dis ¬ tance by Royal Yeoman The pair broke at the stand and raced well together H Schutte having a steadying hold on Gallant Knight which carried Royal Yeoman to the quarter in 23 half in 48 where the latter eased up and the brown colt went to the three quarters post in 1 13 P Schutte was work ¬ ing on him at the last eighth post and he was under a drive to the finishing line Gallant Knights performance was pro ¬ nounced the standout work of the season at the Downs among Derby candidates and his trainer Kay Spence was congratulated by a number of horsemen present when the colt worked on the splendid showing of his charge chargeBusy Busy J B Respess Derby candidate a recent arrival from Lexington was set down in company with Bold Robin from the same stable for half a mile in 48 The pair went the first threeeighths in 35 Trainer Art Goldblatt is confident that Busy will give a good account of himself in the clas ¬ sic sicBilly Billy Champ the Warm Stables Derby eligible got his constitutional in company with The Nut and Cady Hill the latter two candidates for the Clark Handicap which will be run on Saturday May 10 as the opening day feature of the Downs spring meeting meetingThis This trio broke at the stand Billy Champ going to the front and opening up a good lead on sufferance turning his first half in 50 whereas both The Nut and Cady Hill passed him as he was eased back and he reached the threequarters post in 116 coming again in the stretch to finish out the mile in the van of his stable companions easily in 145 145The The Nut wearing blinkers was timed in 4S 114 127 143 Cady Hill was credited with threequarters in 1 17 17Ladrone Ladrone one of the Derby eligibles of J N Camden and Martinique a Clark Handicap candidate were sent a mile in the time of 50 116 144 breezing Both sported blinkers in their trial trialMartie Martie Flynn which will represent Stuy ¬ vesant Peabody president of Lincoln Fields in the Claik Handicap wore blinkers in his mile trial in 142 He went his first threequarters in 48 114 McGonigle his stable companion went the first fiveeighths with him as his pacemaker pacemakerEaster Easter Stockings which will carry the col ¬ ors of the Audley Farm Stable in the Clark Handicap went a half in 49 threequar ¬ ters in 116 116Pigeon Pigeon Hole one of H P Headleys Clark candidates turned a half in 50 breezing breezingLate Late Derby works wero those of J W Par rishs Stock Market which breezed with Rich Widow his Oaks candidate in the time of 24s 49 115 129 head and head for seveneighths The Senator the French Lick Stables Derby eligible worked threeeighths with Col McCart in 37 and Roll Em Down Mrs Eva Deloziers candidate for the classic went a like distance in 37
