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PRINCE HOTSPUR IN SENSATIONAL DERRY . C WORKOUT GOES MILE IN 1:38 2-5 Chicago-Owned Colt Displays Great Speed at Lincoln Fields. Twelve Certain Starters for Saturdays Big Race Boatswain Probable Favorite. r-- . . HOMEWOOD, HI., June 16. The following are the prospective starters in the American Derby: Boatswain ..... .126 .B. Hanford Stepenfetchit .. ..118 A. Robertson i Sunmelus 118 W. Elliott Yonkel 118. J. Maiben Osculator 118. R. Jones Gusto 118 S. Coucci Adobe Post 118 C. Landrt Big" Beau 118 C. Corbtt Marmion 118 M. Lewis Prince Hotspur. .118. ... .A. Anderson , Our Fancy,. 118 J. Smith Mad Pursuit. 118 C.E.Allen fMinton .118 tCathop 118 1 Say ..113. fDoubtful starters. .------- - HOMEWOOD, 111., June 16. Prince Hotspur, one of four Chicago-owned candidates for the race, starred as the final serious workouts of hopefuls for the American Derby, to be renewed Saturday, were enacted this morning. The Prince, a most temperamental son of Dunlin and Lady Emmeline, owned by the estate of the late Joseph Leiter, broke all training speed records linked with not only this 0,000 added Washington Park classic race, but with the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes and all other stakes of the current season for three-year-olds as well, when he maintained a burning pace to the tune of a mile in 1:38 at Linccln Fields. He was favored by fast footing, and after covering the mile, cantered out an additional furlong in 1:52. WORKS MINUS BLINKERS. Trainer N. K. Beal decided to put Prince Hotspur to this final private test minus the blinkers he had been wearing in both morning trials and races and while Beal has long regarded him as a very fast horse, the colts reaction to the change in equipment literally swept the veteran Beal off his feet. "For a time," said Beal, "it didnt seem that Prince Hotspur would measure up to Derby quality and he may not do much damage in Saturdays race. I have been training horses- for many years and cannot recall a young horse that worked as fast and as impressively as the Prince did this morning. If he races to his remarkable trial, he may prove the Derby winner." In his sensational work Prince Hotspur was handled by the veteran A. "Tex" Anderson and the gallop was inaugurated at the three-quarter post. With Anderson steadying him he clicked off the first quarter in :23 and after swinging around the quarter mile of the long Lincoln Fields upper turn in :23, completing the half mile in :46, he sped on to the termination of three-quarters in 1:12, with his riders hold pust as tight and steady as when the trial got under way. From the end of the three-quarters to the finish of a mile there - was no rousing shaking up of the colt and the furlong added after the mile was covered in little more than a canter, Anderson drawing the thrce-y ear-olds neck into a bow. DANGEROUS CANDIDATE. Only an accident or his failure to do well can keep Prince Hotspur out of Saturdays race, trainer Beal stated, and on the strength of this phenomenal concluding workout he will be generously backed to prove the strongest of the western contenders among the twelve expected to meet over the Derby mile and one-quarter. Boatswain, Walter M. Jeffords great colt and. probable favorite for Saturdays race and M. L. Schwartz Gusto, another of the A eastern contestants, reached the local track in fine condition from Aqueduct shortly be-fl LContinucd on twenty-first vaae.1. V GOES MILE IN 1:38 2-5 Continued from first page. fore noon today. Their safe arrival, well insured the participation of the two splendid Invaders: in this foremost of Washington Park attractions, one of the richest and most important fixtures of the American turf. Both colts stepped from the express car with plenty of ginger, and their liveliness and striking conformation brought them into instant favor with those, who Witnessed their detraining. Boatswain, recent winner of the Withers Stakes in which Burgoo King" met decisive defeat, is without question the foremost aspirant for the three-year-old crown and if, in Saturdays race, he is returned victorious, will be mighty hard to crowd out of the champions throne. In the American Derby he will pack an impost of 126 pounds, conceding eight pounds to each of his masculine rivals, and if he comes through such a stiff test successfully he should dominate his division the remainder of the season. His American Derby rivals, in addition to Gusto, which finished fourth in the Belmont Stakes, and the new western threat, Prince Hotspur, will include W. R. Coes Osculator, which landed second money back of the Jeffords colt in the Withers; Sunmelus, W. S. Kilmers improved and dangerous home-bred; Mrs. John Hay Whitneys Step-enfetchit, third in the Kentucky Derby in which twenty started; W. J. Salmons Mad Pursuit and such other flashy westerners as Knebelkamp and Morris Adobe Post; H. P. Headleys Big Beau, C. B. Shaffers Mar-mipn, A. Bartelsteins Yonkel and J. B. Res-pess Our Fancy. Along with furnishing the betting choice, the East is expected to include among her representatives the second choice in Stepen-fetchit, and many believe that the Whitney colt will give the Withers winner and conqueror of Burgoo King a great battle for the post of favoritism. Stepenfetchit never was better and, having emerged from his concluding stiff workout without a scratch, is ready for the race of his life. Trainers of all of the candidates today were satisfied with the condition of their respective hopes and the manner in which they approach the great test Osculator continued to command high regard, as did Adobe Post, Yonkel and Sunmelus, heroes of the Derby trial run at the local track Monday last. Our Fancy was another of the candidates put through a final preparation at Lincoln Fields today. Trainer C. H. Trotter sent him the mile distance, for which he was timed in 1:42. At Washington Park, where the track was slow, Adobe Post breezed a mile in 1:48, and Big Beau covered the same distance in 1:46, handily.
