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CHANCEV1EW AND JAWAPA Only Kentucky Derby Candidates to Work at the Downs Wednesday. 4 First Mentioned Goes Mile in 1:45 Never Extended Rolled Stocking Gelding Runs Six Furlongs in 1:15, Well in Hand. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 17. Chanceview, owned by J. J. Flanigan and Louisvilles own Derby candidate, and the scrawny Jawapa from the stable of James W. Parrish, Midway, Ky., banker, were the only candidates for the sixty-first Kentucky Derby to work as horsemen staged another long and heavy session of training under wintry weather, but excellent track conditions at Churchill Downs here today. Much the same as yesterday, winter was on the job with biting winds, a low temperature and overcast skies, but the unseasonable weather failed to. check trainers in their determination to lose no more time in "prepping" for the Churchill Downs spring meeting opening just one week from Saturday. Tommy Oliphant, diminutive former jockey, who quit clocking horses to oversee the welfare of the Flanigan Derby nominee, prescribed a "snug" mile for the unsexed son of Chance Shot and Look Up and, with "Mickey" Devers in the saddle, the Louisville racer ground out the eight furlongs in 1:45. Never extended, he moved over the first quarter in. :25, the half mile in :51, three-quarters in 1:17, and seven-eighths in 1:31. It was Chanceviews first test at the distance and first serious trial since Oliphant brought him to the Downs from Douglas Park, where he wintered. He has been "going along," as horsemen say, since mid-winter, is thoroughly muscled and Continued on fourteenth page. CHANCEVIEW AND JAWAPA iQontinued from first page. legged-up for the more rigorous part of the severe Derby preparation and apparently as well advanced as any Derby eligible in this section. v- As a two-year-old Chanceview started only three times. In two of the three engagements -he finished in front, one of the victories coming in a stake at Epsom Downs, and a mere nose cost him a clean sweep of his three races, Phildia defeating him by that margin in a stake at Arlington Downs more than a year ago, ailments forced him out of training soon after the latter race. Bred by J. E. Widener at Elmdorf Farm, he was probably, as a result of being undersized, acquired by his present owner for the proverbial song. He has, however, filled out and grown since last year. Jawapa, winner of but one race in eighteen chances last year and badly beaten in both of his three-year-old starts at Hialeah Park in February, encouraged with a snappy three-quarters this morning. The Rolled Stocking gelding clicked off the distance in 1:15. He was well in hand throughout, and the trial compared with the best of the day. Scarp, a daughter of the same sire which Parrish named for the Kentucky Oaks, accompanied the Derby nominee. Though he was placed in 50 per cent of his races last year, Jawapa is conceded only a very remote chance to hold a place in the Derby parade. The Derby favorite, Chance Sun, also by Chance Shot, and owned by Widener, jogged two miles, and the same program prevailed for Jouett Shouses Weston, C. B. Shaffers Finance; E. D. Shaffers St. Bernard, and Conn Smythes Shoeless Joe and Direct Hit. Mrs. R. B. Fairbanks Bluebeard was sched-uled to "breeze a little" later in the day, according to Art Goldblatt, trainer of the son of Blue Larkspur. A sparkling trial by A. L. Fergusons Vitamin B., one of the ranking candidates for the Clark Handicap, to be renewed on the opening day of the meeting, added importance to morning training maneuvers at the Downs. The big son of Vito and Our Betsy had only a limited chance to unfold his best speed in a seven-furlong spin, for which he was timed in 1:31. Over at Douglas Park training activities were much the same, more than three score horses moving along briskly in trials designed to move them up a notch in their training for engagements during the nineteen-day spring session. Schooling was conducted at both tracks. Clyde VanDusen came down from Dixiana to direct the training of the eighteen Dixiana horses here. During his absence from the farm, where he has twenty-three others, Harry Van Ray was in charge. .
