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BOYS HOWDY TRIUMPHS ♦ H. C. Hatch Colorbearer Defeats Derby Eligibles in Feature. ♦ Preparation Purse Heads Churchill Downs Program — Porters Dream Wins Second Straight Race. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 8.— With weather and track conditions greatly improved over the previous afternoon, one of the largest week-day crowds in several years was attracted to Churchill Downs by the meeting of all the outstanding western-owned candidates for the Kentucky Derby, in the Preparation Purse today. The throng included a number of delegates to the annual national meeting of the Heating and Piping Contractors Association held here, and the secondary feature was named in honor of that organization. Prior to the running of the "Derby trial" and secondary sprint, visitors to the course saw Edward B. McLeans home-bred Porters Dream, juvenile daughter of The Porter and Dream of Allah, prove the first to account for two purses during the meeting, when she easily captured the Morning Glory Purse, or third race. Well suited by the good but cuppy track, the filly led from a short distance after the start, and James McCoy got her to the finish of the four and one-half furlongs four lengths clear of Memorandum. Hasty Polly finished in third place, while Matinee Girl, which ruled favorite, gradually dropped out of the forward flight after racing in fourth place to the stretch. The winner scored her first and maiden victory on Tuesday, and her triumph today marked the third for the McLean colors during the meeting. Barrido, a newcomer to these parts, carried the colors of W. Ziegler, Jr., to victory over Stock Market, Elysium and three others in the principal sprint, or fourth race. He led throughout the three-quarters, but somewhat tarnished his performance when he blocked Stock Market at the entrance to the stretch, where the latter was moving up rapidly on the inside. Forced back. Stock Market failed to closely approach the successful three-year-old during the subsequent racing, but held Elysium safe for second place. J. B. Respess, master of Highland Stock Farm, uncovered a likely colt of home-breeding in Grand Champion, son of Royal II. and Bonnie Crest, which signalled his first start with an easily attained victory in the opening race, for maiden juvenile colts and geldings. Grand Champion outran his, opponents from the end of the first sixteenth, and T. Murray rode him to the end of four and one-half furlongs, one and one-half lengths in the van of Dyak. F. Grab-ner, another making his initial start under colors, finished third, five lengths back. The latter had little to spare over Horace and Rector. Grand Champion had strong backing and was the favorite. Jack Howard saddled the first successful odds-on choice of the meeting when Port Harlem, which races for Mrs. F. A. Carreaud, decisively defeated eleven others from among the cheaper fillies and mares in the second race. The distance was three-quarters, and Quiver took second place, five lengths back and a length in front of Laila Wild. Drawing away into safe command before the first quarter was completed. Port Harlem held sway without effort thereafter and the strong restraint maintained by Cor-bett failed to prevent her from increasing her advantage during the run through the stretch. Quiver sprinted along in a forward position from the start, while Laila Wild got up to account for the smallest part with a rush in the final three-sixteenths.
