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CHANCE SUN ON VIEW Kentucky Derby Favorite Works Three-Quarters Over Sloppy Track. 4 Widener Colt Impresses Horsemen and Visitors Latest Gossip and Doings at Louisville Track, t LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 1. With Fickle March staging one of the most vicious fade-outs she has accomplished in this section in years, conditions hardly could have been more unfavorable at Churchill Downs here Sunday. However, unpropitious as they were, they failed to interrupt the training program under which trainer Peter Coyne is preparing Joseph E. Wideners Chance Sun for the rich and prized Kentucky Derby to be renewed at that track four weeks from next Saturday. It was the winter book favorites regular work day and with Adam Schlaug in the saddle, the son of Chance Shot was ordered out for a breeze of three-quarters. An all night rain had just ceased and it was unseasonably cold, with a brisk wind blowing as the Widener hopeful stepped forth for what was his first serious training since he arrived here last Thursday from his owners Elmendorf Farm near Lexington. The racing strip was deep in slop and after wading through it for a mile at a slow, leisurely gallop, Chance Sun went into the trial with his rider tugging full strength at the reins. As Schlaug maintained the tight hold throughout, the Widener three-year-old had nothing like a chance to "turn on" on a track regarded as his forte. He fairly reveled in the slop, stepping the distance with neck bowed and but little effort in 1:26. "Just what he wanted," was Coynes, first comment following the workout. Showing the benefit of his work at the farm and readiness for the more rigorous part of his Derby preparation, the Widener colt impressed the track side gallery of horsemen and morning visitors present. Though not a big horse, Chance Sun is nicely put up. While his every muscle is well drawn from the long gallops, legging up process arid short breezes at the farm, he is carrying enough weight to meet the exacting requirements of the ordeal still before him. When he appears for his second trial over the Derby track, the Widener star may have Wayne Wright in the saddle. Wright, leading rider at the Miami tracks and regarded as one of the best since Earl Sandes time, has been instructed to report to trainer Coyne at the conclusion of the Tropical Park meeting. He is under contract to the Widener stable and will have the mount on Chance Sun in the Derby. William R. Coes Bluebeard, another of the leading eastern candidates for the classic and also a recent arrival at the Downs, was in action yesterday for the first time since arriving from California. Trainer Continued on eighteenth page. j f - . f . . : l : l ; , . . l CHANCE SUN. ON VIEW Continued from first page. Clyde Phillips sent him through a long gallop. Also a superior mud runner, he experienced no difficulty moving through the mud and slop. The Coe colt is in racing condition and he needs little to unlimber him for the work necessary to keep him in racing trim. Several impressive trials were shown by two-year-olds which wintered here and both Head Play, winner of the Bay Meadows Handicap, and Ladysman, star of the handicap division, were out for airings. Head Play is owned by Mrs. Silas B. Mason of Lexington and New York, while Ladysman is the outstanding senior member of the Coe stable. Trainer Tommy Taylor unloaded Head Play and others of the Mason horses here Friday. He expects to start Head Play in the Clark Handicap, opening day feature of the Downs meeting. From here the Mason stable goes to New York, where Head Play will : try to add the Suburban Handicap and other prizes to his string of victories. William Crump, a recent arrival from Nashville with the horses of Mrs. Crump, reports the entire string advanced. His menage includes, besides the four older horses, Cherry Time, Panther Rock, First Pigeon and Helen Fisher, the following two-year-olds: Lacewood, ch. g, by Pigeon Wing II. Lance; Pigeon Hawk, ch. g, by Pigeon Wing II. Fairy Ring; Red Quill, ch. f, by Pigeon Wing II. Lady Hourless; Golden Pigeon, ch. f, by Pigeon Wing II. Goldy Girl; Grand Finale, ch. f, by Spanish Prince LOrphelin; Myriad, ch. f, by Chance Play Berry Esha; Belle of Midway, br. f, by Rolled Stockings Eseret; Insulated, blk. c, by Ariel Winnie OWynn; Bon Centine, b. c, by Waygood Centine, and High Nun, ch. g, by High Cloud Honey Pot. Several carloads of horses from Hot and Miami are expected tomorrow. -Spj"ngs K With their arrival, the thoroughbred personnel of Churchill Downs and Douglas Park will reach the 600 mark. Other shipments are due daily for the next few weeks. W. J. "Buddy" Hirsch, son of the- veteran Max Hirsch,, who developed many star performers, chief of them Sarazen, was an arrival from Florida with two head and he is taking up four more this week. Jesse Spencer has reservations for eight head and J. Burks, with his small stable, headed by the faithful campaigner Flying Cadet, was an addition to the Douglas Park colony. Reports from Florida are that Charles W. Bidwill is still far from recovered from the sickness that sent him to a Chicago hospital early in the winter.
