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TWELVE DERBY ELIGIBLES Among- the Horses Quartered at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park. All Reported in Fine Bodily Condition and Ready for Extensive Training Sweeping Light Highly Regarded. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 27. Local race courses can boast of twelve candidates for the 0,000 added Kentucky Derby at the present time. This number is equally divided between the Downs and Douglas Park. J. W. Parrish of Midway, breeder and racer of thoroughbred horses, was a visitor at the Downs Sunday morning and saw his Derby candidates Cold Check and Depression gallop through the slop. There was a steady fall of rain since early in the night and both tracks felt the effects of it, although, but few trainers failed to send their charges out for exercise on the ovals. Besides the Parrish Derby eligibles at the Downs, Albert Sabath, Chicago sportsman, has two in Manners, a gelding, and I Say, a filly, and W. F. Knebelkamp is represented by the Queen City Handicap winner Delivered, and W. Wilkerson has his Derby colt Epidemic quartered at the Downs. Cold Check won the Cincinnati Trophy at Latonia last year, while Depression won the filly end of the Orphans Stakes at Idle Hour Farm. Trainer Willie Crump, who is handling this pair, is diligently preparing them for thfc, Derby and both may be starters in the race. At Douglas Park the Fair Stables pair. Sweeping Light, a brown colt by Manna- Sweeping Glance, a stake winner in the East, and Black Powder, a maiden, the gelded son of Black Toney Melinite, are the most highly regarded of the Derby candidates at the Douglas Park course, especially the former. The Longridge Stable has the filly Oscillation, a frequent winner on the Chicago tracks, in training in charge of W. H. Buck-ner, who trained the great filly Round the World when she was the sensation of 1910 racing. John Jones has Knebelkamp and Morris Adobe Post, -which was a high class youngster last year, being a stake winner, in training at the Highland Park course. Our Fancy, owned by J. B. Respess, a stake winner, is undergoing his preparation for the classic at Douglas Park, and William D. Covington rounds out the six head of eligibles in training at this course with his gelded son of Dodge, Side Step. The health of all the horses at the local tracks has been uniformly good this year, some slight cases of coughing, which developed earlier in the winter among the two-year-olds, having been successfully eradicated. Long canters and gallops will soon be succeeded by opening up of the Derby candidates with short sprints and in a few short weeks the railbirds will be given a glimpse of near racing as the Derby candidates become more seasoned and active training for the classic sets in. G. E. Patterson is expected to reach the Douglas Park track with fifteen head of horses that belong to A. Pelleteri, which have been turned out on the farm during the winter months. Patterson was, for a number of years, in the employ of Col. P. T. Chihn owner of Himyar Stud, having raced a number of horses of his own prior to entering the employ of Colonel Chinh. B. A. Jones will bring the horses of Herbert M. Woolf of Kansas City to the Downs at the close of racing in Florida, and Unencumbered will receive his final preparation for the Derby over the Downs track. In all, the Woolf establishment is expected to number twenty head this spring. Frank Swain, who took over the F. M. Grabner stable to train recently, is in New Orleans, but is expected back in Louisville within a few days.
