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1 i ! • ■ WORK AT DERBY DISTANCE » Brother Joe Makes Better Showing Than Burgoo King at 1 1-4 Miles. * Cee Tee* Also Goes Full Route — Gallant Sir Sulks in Trial at Mile and an Eighth. Track Was Muddy. • LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 30.— Long distance trials over a testing, muddy track by Brother Joe, Burgoo King, Cee Tee and Gallant Sir, the arrival of Tick On from Maryland, and the debut of Burning Blaze as a three-year-old were developments locally that intensified interest in the Kentucky Derby, to be renewed at Churchill Downs next Saturday. In the East Top Flight, favorite for the classic and other of the candidates, were scheduled for public showings of great bearing on the classic, and all in all, it was a day holding more of interest and importance than any this season. Brother Joe and Burgoo King gave further evidences of high quality when, in company, they worked the Derby route of a mile and one-quarter in 2:11 and 2:11%, respectively. Brother Joe went the long distance breezing, while Burgoo King was slightly more extended, yet finished out running nicely in hand. Both were excellent efforts over the rather deep and holding track, with Laverne Fator on Burgoo King and Leonard Hale astride Brother Joe. For three-quarters they were rated on even terms, the quarter in :25, half in :51%, and the six furlongs in 1:17%. Nearing the end of a mile, Brother Joe began to draw away from his stable companion and, at the termination of eight furlongs was showing the way by a length. For the mile he was timed in 1:44, and Burgoo King in 1:44%. At the close of the long trial Brother Joe continued to pull away, and at the finish of the route was three lengths before his stablemate. Todays work marked the second to final at the Derby distance for the Idle Hour colts, which a week hence will attempt to carry the white and green silks of their owner, Col. E. R. Bradley, to their third triumph in the "blue riband" event of the American turf. H. J. Thompson, trainer of the colts, was greatly pleased with the trials and fine manner in which both cooled out. A short time before Thompson worked the Bradley colts, Clyde Van Dusen indulged Cee Tee, Charles T. Fishers candidate, with a long but not severe "prep" at a mile and one-eighth. He was never out of a breeze, and went the distance in 2:00, the quarter in :25%, half in :51%, three-quarters in 1:19 and mile in 1:46. Van Dusen plans to give the son of Polymelian final opportunity to qualify in a mile race here Tuesday. Gallant Sir, Norman Churchs entry, which arrived here from Tanforan a week ago, continues one of nasty temperament, and it was with great difficulty that George Woolf drove him over a mile and one-eighth in 2:04%. The son of Sir Gallahad III. sulked after going the first half-mile in :51%, and from that point to the end ran much as he pleased, and when pulled up was little distressed. Trainer E. L. Fitzgerald sent Sundot with the Derby hope the first five-eighths, and Jennie Dear joined him for the last three-quarters. Gallant Sir ran three-quarters in 1:23 and a mile in 1:51. A. . .
