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DERBY CONTESTANTS Latest Advices Indicate List of Prospective Starters on May4. Many Horses Work Despite Cold and Rainy Weather Head Play in Tip -Top Shape. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 6 Col. M. J. Winn, executive director of Churchill Downs, today announced receipt of advices that Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords Commonwealth, William Woodwards Omaha, Edward R. Bradleys Boxthorn, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloanes Psychic Bid and Special Agent, Warren Wrights Nellie Flag, Mrs. John D. Hertz Our Reigh and Count Arthur, and Conn Smythes Shoeless Joe have been doing so well that barring mishap all may be in the parade to the Derby post. Track superintendent Thomas Young today set aside four stalls in the new barn reserved for Derby candidates, for the classic aspirants and their stablemates, Mrs. John D. Hertz will send to the Downs next week. Mrs. Hertz, wife of the chairman of the Arlington Park board, won the Derby of 1928 with Reigh Count. Although speed, due to track conditions, was out of the question, training operations reached a new high for the season at Churchill Downs here today. Undaunted by cold, rainy weather, horsemen put on the most extensive training show seen here this early in the season in several years. The big chapter in the preparation of the trck full of thoroughbreds for the Churchill Downs meeting opening just, three weeks from today, began late, but once under way expanded rapidly and 100 horses were set down for brisk trials before the course was cleared shortly before noon. During the final hour of the training period rain came down in torrents. It was accompanied by the most penetrating cold in a fortnight. It was regular work day for the more outstanding Kentucky Derby horses at the Oak-dale course, and while trainer Pete Coyne decided to wait until afternoon to work Joseph E. Wideners winter book choice, Chance Sun, trainer Jack Young stuck to schedule with Jouett Shouses Weston and J. W. Parrishs Jawapa, trained by John Goode, was among the fiist horses under saddle. Accompanied by the good filly Fiji, the Shouse classic hopeful tackled the tough, slow underfooting for half a mile. He was Continued on twenty-second page. DERBY CONTESTANTS Continued from first page. never out of a breeze and was timed in :50, the quarter in :2iYs and three-eighths in :36. His companion was on even term3 throughout the short but nevertheless beneficial conditioner. Weston probably is one of most versatile candidates so far as track conditions are concerned, pointing for the coveted fixture to be run for the sixty-first time here four weeks from today. Goode worked Jawapa with the stables Kentucky Oaks nominee, Scarp, and Double R. The trio went three furlongs "head and head" and hard held in :39. 4 With the track to his liking, the older Head Play, Mrs. Silas B. Masons winner of the Bay Meadows Handicap, Preakness and other important races and one of the leading candidates for the Clark Handicap to be renewed on the opening day of the local meeting, all but pulled his rider out of the saddle as he breezed five-eighths in 1:05. The Mason horse went the first half mile in :52. Silversmith, Sickle Pear, Shot Proof and Chance Dame, other Widener three-year-olds which accompanied the Derby favorite here from Elmendorf farm, were worked during the morning. Drilling together the latter two turned a half mile in :51, handily, while the former pair also worked in company, traversed a like distance, breezing in :55. According to word from Lexington, the C. C. Van Meter-Roy Carruthers stable will pass up the local meeting, going from there to Washington Park within the next month. Harry Saladin, with a division of Daniel B. Midkiffs stable, came in late yesterday from Lexington. The A. B. Gallaher and W. G. Sparks stables are expected from the same point Tuesday. Patrick A. Nash and Judge James E. Fardy, of Chicago, were early morning visitors at the Downs today. A division of Nashs Shandon Farm Stable Is here In charge of J. J. Greeley, Jr. The string the veteran, Walter Grater, is whipping into racing trim here for the local patron, S. T. Games, includes Mary Nell, Jane Brush, Dick Star, Jumpoff, Baliste and Our Betty. John and Frank McAtee, brothers, have their stables at Douglas Park. The latter unloaded Rip and Tear, Run Amuck and Ridge Mor, which raced at the Miami tracks, at the Beechmont course yesterday while his brother returned a week ago from Hot Springs with Joaney B., Billies Orphan, Princess Ivory, Jessie Dear and two others. The latter is adding Aunt Myrtle, Aunt Mo-die, Ivona and another juvenile filly which wintered at Serenata Stock Farm, to his stable within a short time. Mose Lowenstein, with sixteen, and Emerson Davis, with a division of the Conn Smythe stable, are due from Lexington early next week. Over at Douglas Park trainer Tommy Oliphant refused to yield to the elements and Chance Views Derby preparation was advanced with a trial at three-quarters. The J. J. Flanigan three-year-old was sent for a spin of three-quarters and moved through loose mud to the tune of a quarter in :26, half mile in :52 and three-quarters in 1:20.
