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BRADLEY DERBY HOPES REACH CHURCHILL DOWNS i AFTER FIFTH TRIUMPH ; 1 Master of Idle Hour Farm to Depend Upon Boxthorn and Big Gawk. Latest News of Derby Candidates Chance Sun Continues to Train to Satisfaction of Pete Coyne. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 23. With the arrival this morning of Boxthorn and Big Gawk, sturdy hopefuls of Edward R. Bradley for his fifth victory in the race, all of the western and southern candidates with the possible exception of Whizzaway for the sixty-first Kentucky Derby, to be run at Churchill Downs a week from Saturday, are at that local course. The Bradley pair of home-breds, accompanied, by seven stable companions, including the crack filly Bazaar, reached the Downs shortly after nine oclock and about half an hour later trainer H. J. Thompson had Boxthorn and Bazaar on the track for a brisk half-mile speed spin. Responding nicely, they clicked off the four furlongs in :48. It was a "pipe opener" for something more exacting tomorrow when Thompson will put the four-year-old Bazaar through her final stiff trial for the Clark Handicap, Saturdays sixty-year-old opening day feature, and advance Boxthorns Derby preparation another step. Favored by excellent weather and with all of the horses coming through a fast trip from Idle Hour Farm in fine fashion, trainer Thompson, agent Mose Cossman and other attaches of the stable, including jockey Don Meade, who will ride Boxthorn in the Derby, were in a most agreeable frame of mind. As a surprise track superintendent Tom Young, who thinks and works overtime in an effort to please all horsemen who patronize the Downs, assigned the Bradley racers exactly the same stalls that were occupied by Burgoo King and Brokers Tip, Bradleys last two Derby winners, and their companions in 1932 and 1933, respectively. "Well," said one of the Bradley stable boys. "If the masters idea about everything happening in runs of three is right, were home in the Derby, as this is the third time we have had these stalls." TUESDAYS GALLOPS. Long before Boxthorn, Big Gawk and their stablemates reached the scene of the big conflict, such other of the Derby candidates as J. E. Wideners Chance Sun, Warren Wrights Nellie Flag, Sachsenmaier and Reuters Roman Soldier, Conn Smythes Direct Hit and Shoeless Joe, C. B. Shaffers Finance, E. N. Shaffers St. Bernard, J. J. Flanigans Chanceview, Jouett Shouses Weston, along with lesser lights still in the probable line-up of starters for the race, had been put away for the day. Trainer A. B. Gordon breezed Finance a very easy mile in 1:47, quarter in :26, half mile in :53 and three-quarters in 1:18, while Emerson Davis, who is in charge of the Smythe stable, sent Direct Hit a like distance in 1:43, breezing. The latter, Canadian-owned candidate went the quarter in :24, half mile in :50 and three-quarters in 1:16. His stablemate Derby nominee, Shoeless Joe, galloped two miles-Nellie Flag, a bit nervous from a sharp change of surroundings, galloped only ax mile, while trainer Pete Coyne blew out the Derby choice, Chance Sun, three furlongs in :35, the quarter in :23. He was accompanied by his regular work escort, Silversmith. Bert Williams, trainer of the Wright horses, also galloped Black Flag, Skip It, Cal- Continued on ninth page. BRADLEYS DERBY HOPES REACH CHURCHILL DOWNS .Continued from first page. , -umet Dick and Some Bull. This quartet, with Nellie Flag, arrived yesterday from their owners Calumet Farm. The other Wright horses also were named for the Derby, but Williams was so displeased with Skip Its last trial at the farm that he now plans to start only Nellie Flag. Phil Reuter reported Roman Soldier in extraordinary fettle. "Never has a horse shipped better," said the able New Orleans turfman, who. reached the Downs from Arlington Downs with the Texas Derby winner and seven others shortly before noon yesterday. A forty-five minute walk under the "shed" was Roman Soldiers only exercise today, and after an hours walk tomorrow he will swing back into more serious training Thursday, according to Reuter. T. H. McCaffreys Hazy Autumn, Meehan Brothers Carroll Day, and J. W. Parrishs Jawapa, doubtful starters in the 0,000 added prize, worked handy miles in 1:45, 1:43, and three-eighths in :36, respectively. Trainer Tom Young plans to again test Weston: over, ardistance of ground tomorrow and should he fail to improve over his Sunday showing,, the Shouse colt may be officially withdrawn-from the Blue Grass classic. W. E. Hupps Bobbys Son is the latest to fail to make the stiff Derby grade. He worked unimpressively yesterday and trainer W. Sparks; is convinced that he is not up to Derby standard. Some twenty-four colts, geldings and the lone filly Nellie Flag, with possible additions, comprised the probable Derby field today. They are. Boxthorn, Big Gawk, Weston, Special Agent, Psychic Bid, Nellie Flag, Finance, Chanceview, Sun Fairplay, Plat Eye, Sailor Beware, Commonwealth, Man-tagna, Whiskolo, Roman Soldier, Good Flavor, St. Bernard, Blackbirder, Direct Hit, Shoeless Joe, Today, Omaha, Chance Sun, and Prince Splendor. Possible additions to the field of starters may come from the following: Whizzaway, Bluebeard, Try Sympathy, Morpluck, Purple Knight, Carroll Day, Hazy Autumn, Jawapa, Skip It and two or three others. A disappointing trial by Jouett Shouses Weston and another impressive speed display by J. E. Wideners Chance Sun marked Sundays training of Kentucky Derby candidates under fine conditions at Churchill Downs. Weston, after clicking off seven furlongs in 1:28, tired badly and could scarcely pick his feet up as he labored out a mile and one-eighth in 1:58, while Wideners iavorite for the big event, now less than two weeks off, stepped a mile in 1:41 handily. Ed Shaffers St. Bernard and Conn Smythes Shoeless Joe were other Derby hopefuls in action before a large Easter morning crowd. They also worked a mile each, St. Bernard looking extra good as he breezed in 1:43. He jogged out the full Derby route of ten furlongs in 2:14. Working under such strong restraint that he several times missed his stride, Shoeless Joe covered eight furlongs in 1:46. Trainer Pete Coyne again used the three-year-old Silver Smith as a work mate for the Widener Derby horse, while the four-year-old filly and Clark Handicap candidate, Fiji, went "with, Weston. Silver Smith experienced no trouble keeping pace with the Futurity winner but Weston "let loose" of Fiji after seven furlongs and she drew away steadily while galloping out a mile and one-eighth in 1:56, the mile in 1:43. They completed the first quarter in :23, half mile in :48 and three-quarters in 1:14, while the Widener pair turned the quarter in :23, half mile in :49, and three-quarters in 1:15. Displaying more of a willingness to run than any of the other Derby horses, St. Bernard accomplished his good trial with utmost ease. He had no companion and after circling the course, went out the extra quarter under. double wraps. He was virtually pulled up at the finish of the Derby distance. As a field near or above the record twenty-two that faced starter William Hamilton in 1928, Reigh Counts year, seemed assured, Churchill Downs officials, headed by Col. M. J. Winn, executive director of the track and the man who made the Derby what it is, pushed arrangements under which a record crowd for a turf event and one of the largest in sports annals, will be handled at Churchill Downs one week from Saturday. A throng of 100,000 may witness the coming battle of three-year-olds. Weights of the sixty eligibles for the Clark Handicap, to be renewed Saturday, opening day of the local spring meeting, over a mile and one-sixteenth, follow: First Try, 102; Howard, 116; New Deal, 118; Frank Ormont, 109; Two Sons, 103; Ariel Cross, 100; Allen Z., 102; Bazaar, 114; Rettef, 98; Black Hat, 102; Some Bull, 102; Laddie Stone, 102; Mr. Khayyam, 123; Exponent, "99; Golden Boy, 102; Emil Pasha. 102: Manners Man, 102; Brico, 99; My Blaze, 108; Black Peter, 97; Sir Koster, 98; Cherry Time, 109; Brustigert, 108; Graceful Lad, 101; Chasar, 109; Vitamin B., 106; Al Sat, 102; Golden Nut, 97; Bring Back, 107; Whizzaway, 105; One Lark, 102; The Immortal II., 100; Brown Witch, 100; Gold Basis, 106; Isaiah, 112; Declaration, 98; Sazerac, 109; Head Play, 122; Big Brand, 106; Purple Knight, 105; Whiskolo, 106; Gallaclay, 102; Whereaway, 103; South Gallant, 102; Visigoth, 106; Beaver Dam, 102; Fogarty,97; Nas-slyn, 95; Master Beau. 97; Plight, 115; West Main, 108; Open Hearth, 113; Blackbirder, 105; Quatre Bras II., 110; Brown Toney, 107; Navanod, 109; Fiji, 112; South Bend, 97; Skalkahoe, 102, and Safe and Sound, 106. The regular annual pre-season meeting of the state racing commission will be held here Friday evening. The turf body will meet at 8 p. m. Action on the report of the commissions license committee is the most important business to be considered. The commission recently approved dates of May 25 to July 6, thirty-seven days, for the Latonia Jockey Clubs spring meeting. Late Date, Wild Turkey, Mocky, Cumberland and five others owned by Brentwood Stable, and L. Branhams Lady La Marne are due to reach the Downs from Nashville Tuesday morning. Late Date was vanned to the Caldwell farm from Arlington Downs. A. Frost is the Brentwood trainer.
