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WESTON WORKS IN THE MUD Derby Eligible Goes Three-Quarters in 1:18 Over Difficult Track Chance Sun Due to Gallop. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 9. Weston, Jouett Shouses stake-winning colt, which is rapidly coming to the front as one of the leading western candidates for the sixty-first Kentucky Derby, to be run here on May 4, accomplished another impressive trial in preparation for that mile and a quarter race, when, on a tough, holding track, possibly the most severe at Churchill Downs this spring, he clicked off three-quarters this morning in 1:18. He was accompanied by the crack . four-year-old filly, Fiji, winner of the Latonia Derby, La-tonia Oaks and Kentucky Oaks under the Young Brothers colors last year. They were on even terms throughout and were timed in :25 for the first quarter and in :51 for the half mile. Both cooled out satisfactorily. Fiji, a daughter of Bostonian and O Girl, is scheduled to make her four-year-old debut in the Clark Handicap, to be renewed on Saturday, April 27, opening day of the Downs meeting. The Clark will be decided over one and one-sixteenth miles. Other prominent eligibles among the sixty that were nominated on "February 11 are Head Play, Big Brand, Mr. Khayyam, Bazaar, Vitamin B., Plight, Quatre Bras H., Galla-clay, Whiskolo, Sazerac, Isaiah, Gold Basis, Howard and New Deal. Chance Sun, Joseph E. Wideners Derby favorite, regardless of weather or track conditions, will work tomorrow, according to trainer Pete Coyne. The Widener trainer had intended working the son of Chance Shot today, which would have placed him on a work every third day schedule, but the severity of the Downs track caused him to change his program. More than 1,000 additional seats for the benefit of clubhouse general admission patrons on Derby Day are to be constructed in bleacher arrangement, Col. M. J. Winn, executive director of the Downs, announced this afternoon. Work on the new seats will get under way tomorrow. Colonel Winn, accompanied by C. Bruce Head, leaves tomorrow to spend a few days at French Lick Springs.
