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TWENTY GRAND READY « Works Mile and an Eighth in 1:57 Over Heavy Track. • Anchors Aweigh and Surf Board Also in Action — Thursdays Churchill Downs Program. ♦ LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 14.— Any doubts that may have lingered on the quality of the Greentree Stable colts named for the Kentucky Derby Saturday, was dispelled after the second race this afternoon, when Twenty Grand, Anchors Aweigh and Surf Board were all sent along for a mile and a furlong. Naturally, the chief interest was in the showing of Twenty Grand, the ace of the trio. He was sent along with Anchors Aweigh, with Marshall Lilley in the saddle, and covered a mile and a furlong in 1:57. Anchors Aweigh finished out the same route in 1:58, while a like time was hung out by Surf Board. Twenty Grand and Anchors Aweigh were worked together, while Surf Board had St. Brideaux for his running mate, and the work was accomplished through the middle of the course, over a track that was still heavy from the recent rains. Surf Board demonstrated that the mile and a furlong is a bit beyond him, but Twenty Grand was at no time thoroughly let down in the running and was being eased up by Lilley at the end, while Anchors Aweigh finished out his task strongly. The trials of these colts was a big event of the day, and the racing crowd was im-mensly interested as they sped around the track. It was immediately after the running of the second race that Anchors Aweigh and Twenty Grand, accompanied by a lead pony, entered the track and jogged up the mile chute. They were wheeled, and the work was on with no preliminary cantering. Anchors Aweigh went off in the lead, and he was racing on the inside, but both were in the middle of the track. Lilley, as soon as Twenty Grand settled into his stride, took a steadying hold of his head as they flashed by the quarter pole in :23%. In the next quarter Twenty Grand, still under restraint, drew away slightly from his companion, to go to the half in :48%. The six furlongs mark was reached in 1:15%, and the mile in 1:42%. By that time Twenty Grand was leading his stablemate by a couple of lengths, and galloping with his ears pricking. In the final furlong Lilley was taking up the big bay to finish out the assignment in 1:57. After the working of the Greentree trio "Big Jim" Healy brought out A. C. Bostwicks Preakness winner Mate and the handsome chestnut was sent along an easy seven furlongs in 1:34%. As soon as Mate was through, Jack Pryce brought out W. J. Salmons Ladder, third Continued on twenty-first page. TWENTY GRAND READY Continued from first page. in the Preakness, and sent him a mile and a furlong in 1:57%, but he was tiring at the end and was ridden out. This handsome colt went the first half in :492s, the six furlongs in 1:15%, mile in 1:42%. Like Surf Board, he suggested that he will find the mile and a quarter a bit too far. Thus the horses that were first, second and third in the Preakness, Mate, Twenty Grand and Ladder, were shown. Analyzing each move, it would indicate that Twenty Grand is best, though Mate was not sent along far enough to give any real line on what to expect Saturday. He looks the I part and seems to be just as fit as he was at Pimlico. Insco was brought onto the track after the i running of the fourth race, and his assignment . was also a mile and a furlong, but it was not a satisfactory move, when he finished out in 1:58%. It was not satisfactory for the reason that after running a half in i :48% he was picked up by St. Jim, and the i pacemaker was a real hindrance. He carried Insco out badly on the stretch turn, and bumped him repeatedly all through the running, while the Derby hope was unable I to pull away, and was being urged at the . mile, while St. Jim was under a stout pull. A double triumph of the green and yellow racing silks of Joseph Leiter, Chicago patron, whose Prince D Amour is among the probable starters in Saturdays running of the . Kentucky Derby, featured the racing over . a heavy, streaked track at Churchill Downs . today. The first of the two victories was . scored by Princess A. A. in the opening r race of the afternoon, and Prince Hotspur, also a two-year-old, completed the double [ win when he easily accounted for the Fort Nelson Hotel Purse, one of the outstanding numbers of the excellent program. Prince J Hotspur, like the other Leiter juvenile, was j ridden by E. James and in this, his second I winning performance in seven starts, he defeated some of the best on the grounds. The opening race, for maiden juvenile fillies, . resulted in an upset and thrilling finish t when Joseph Leiters Princess A. A., ridden i by E. James, defeated Shaker Lady and 1 Supreme Lady by narrow margins for the honors. Working her way to the lead on the inside in the closing eighth, the winner just lasted and in another stride might have been headed by the two that pressed her closely. Disappointments included Green Leaf and Playing and the former H. M. Woolf filly went down after reaching the stretch five lengths in front of the field. The race marked her first public appearance and upon strength of fast trials she had strong backing as to close favorite. Nick Huff rode his first winner at the meeting when All Hail, racing for Mrs. C. Gregory and saddled by Willie Crump, won easily from Gettin Even, Silver Lake and five other of the better grade plater three-year-olds in the second race. It was the winners first effort since last fall and, wearing down Gettin Even in the stretch, he drew away to win by two lengths. Gettin Even outstayed the others, a majority of which tired badly after racing well to the last quarter. Jockey W. Fronk drew a suspension of five days for rough riding astride Gettin Even in the second race.
