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WEATHER RETARDS TRAINING Trainers at Louisville Becoming Worried Over Bad Weather. Track Conditions Prevent Real Speed Trials Silas and Boston Pal Again in the Limelight. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 6 The elements again have conspired to retard training of Kentucky Derby candidates quartered at Churchill Downs and with relief unsighted, trainers are becoming panicky. First a frozen track, then thaw, and later slop was the order of the week-end, and continued rains and cold are the prediction. Speed was out of the question, but all of the locally trained candidates came in for breezes with the exception of H. H. Hectors Wise Duke, which was limited to long gallops. The latter never has been regarded seriously, inasmuch as trainer Sherrill Ward has indicated he will not be a starter unless he can take the engagement in stride and without any special preparation. A muddy but rapidly drying out track prevailed as Mrs. Bessie Franzheims Silas and Charles R. Thompsons Boston Pal were given useful trials over the mile route. With jockey Bill Garner, who will have the mount in the Derby, in the saddle, Silas breezed once around the track in 1:45. The son of Crucifixion showed good speed in the early stages, making the first quarter in :25, half in :51. At this stage, Perdition hooked in with the Derby colt and carried him to the three-quarters in 1:17. Trainer A. C. Dettwiler, standing in the center field, differed with the professional dockers, timing his charge a trifle faster. Dettwilers fractions were :25, :52, 1:17 and 1!44. In any event, he was well pleased with the move. Boston Pal worked in company with Mary Terry, a candidate for the Kentucky Oaks, and encircled the track in 1:45. The pair began in front of the stand and went the first quarter in :25, half in :50, and three-quarters in 1:16. At this stage of the journey Mary Terry began to tire and Boston Pal drew clear to lead the filly to the wire by three lengths. The footing was sloppy and treacherous when Captain Cal, from the Tranquillity Farm Stable, and Mrs. J. L. Carricks Watercure worked. Following up a three-eighths blowout in :38, the previous morning, Captain Cal stepped off three-quarters in 1:24, breezing, Songmaker, a stablemate, accompanied the Derby candidate. Watercure went a full mile in company with Gray Jack, his regular work mate. Swinging into motion in frqnt of the stand, Watercure was tabbed a quarter in :28, half in :56, three-quarter in 1:26, and the mile in 1:53. Watercure was in the middle of the track, where the footing was firmest, throughout and under wraps. Mrs. R. J. Murphy, Evansyille, Ind., sportswoman, accompanied by her husband, was on hand to see Otis Clelland put her Derby candidate, Lawyer Brigade, through his regular paces. Terpon accompanied Lawyer Brigade as the stop watches regis-, tered 1:21 for three-quarters. The first quarter was tabbed in :25, and the half in :51. Despite discouraging conditions, a new eagerness was injected into the Downs colony with the receipt of word from Miami that Pete Coyne had loaded Brevity and other members of the Joseph E. Widener troupe and was heading for the Kentucky Derby scene. Horsemen returning from the Everglades have been virtually unanimous in acclaiming Brevity the greatest three-year-old prospect in fifteen years, and those who wintered here are anxious for a glimpse at the Florida Derby winner. Joining the Widener winter division here during the middle of the week will be twenty head which wintered at Elmendorf Farm.
