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DELIVERED TRAINING WEL H Derby Candidate Restrained With Difficulty in Workout. Sweeping Light Gallops Three-Quarters In 1:18 Gordon Preparing Colt for Jamaica Racing. LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 18 When Delivered galloped five-eighths of a mile in 1:03 last Wednesday morning he was permitted to run a bit faster than his trainer, Claud Hunt, intended. The exercise boy told Hunt, however, the Derby candidate was so rank he could not hold him. It goes to prove that Delivered is training well for his Derby race. While he has shown a fast move, it does not spell that he was distressed in the least, as he pulled up without blowing scarcely at all. It is only about six weeks from now until the opening of the meeting at Churchill Downs and the. time is not too soon for the well-meant Derby eligibles around here to be moving along at a fast gait if they would get anything. Alex Gordon has already sent Sweeping Light six furlongs around 1:18 and while the son, of Manna is not a particularly impressive work horse it would not be far out of the way to hazard that Gordon will be having Sweeping Light going a mile around 1:40 in the next fortnight. Trainer Gordon, however, is going along carefully with Sweeping Light and it is said by his friends that he will attempt to have him ready to start at Jamaica when the season of racing opens on the metropolitan track. It was in the spring of 1930 Gordon was sending Desert Light, winner of the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes of 1929, at a fast pace over the Douglas Park course about this time of the year. If Gordon would refer to his "work sheet" he probably would find that Desert Light was turning in six furlongs in better than 1:15 by March 20. Desert Light was fit as a fiddle when Gordon took him East and started him at Jamaica. He was considered as fast here as Sarazen II., a stable companion, which won the Paumonok Handicap the first crack out of the box. But Desert Light, after a couple of times under colors, went wrong and has never been started since. That experience probably taught Gordon a lesson and he has not rushed Sweeping Light. But Gordon knows his horse, or horses rather, and likely he will train Sweeping Light and have him fit. This Sweeping Light has a chance to prove one of the seasons best three-year-olds. He is in the rich Belmont Stakes and that is one of the important fixtures which will not see Top Flight or Tick On, simply for the reason neither was ever named for that stake. The son of Manna, however, must be a difficult colt to train. He had an accident as a yearling when he picked up a nail and for weeks his life hung by a hair.
