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TRAINING HOURS ARE LIVELY Trainers Take Advantage of Good Weather at Louisville. Brevity Appears on Churchill Downs Track Both Sunday and Monday Track Continues Slow. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 13. Although no outstanding horses took, part in it, the mornings training period was a lively one, and engaged a large number of horses at Churchill Downs today. The same was true at Douglas Park. At Churchill Downs, where the track was slow, several candidates for the Clark Handicap, to be run on opening day, April 25, were the principal horses to work, the day being an off one for Kentucky Derby candidates except for J. E. Wideners Brevity, which resumed training this afternoon. The Clark hopefuls in action included R. L. Bakers Yantis, Mose Goldblatts Gilbert Elston, and Mrs. Emil Denemarks Corinto, Pot au Brooms and Top Dog. The most ambitious trials were essayed by Gilbert Elston and Yantis, both of which were sent a mile over the dull course, Gilbert Elston in the very creditable time of 1:45, which was two and one-fifths seconds faster than Yantis negotiated the distance. The latter was accompanied by Prince Vic, a stablemate. Pot au Brooms went a half mile in :51, breezing, while his two stable companions breezed three furlongs in :38. Overhead conditions today were more suggestive of the season than at any time since the local spring training began and with continued dry weather it is likely that owners and trainers of Derby candidates soon will be asking their charges for something closer akin to speed than has been on the program thus far. Few of the Derby eligibles here have been able to show a great deal until now because of the unfavorable weather and track conditions under which they have been forced to take their exercise. Derby interest here will be moved up Wednesday with the expected arrival of the Derby hopes of C. B. Shaffer, E. D. Shaffer and Charles T. Fisher. In this group of Derby aspirants is Coldstream, one of the leading western candidates and owned by C. B. Shaffers son, E. Dale. The string will have the Derby eligibles Bulwark and Noble Star in the large consignment trainer Alec Gordon is bringing down from the senior Shaffers Coldstream Stud near Lexington. Erin Torch, Derby hope of the Fisher establishment, will head a division of that owners stable consisting of sixteen head which trainer Clyde Van Dusen is expected to unload from Dixiana farm, also near Lexington, here Wednesday. Originally Gordon had planned to transfer Coldstream, Bulwark and Noble Star, along with twelve others, from the farm today, but that program was changed when the trainer decided to give the Derby horse3 one more trial over the private course at Coldstream Stud. As the Derby horses were scheduled to work there today, Gordon is giving them a days rest before shipping. The first delightful Sunday since the training period here got under way, attracted several hundred spectators to the Downs, some to see the improvements which are being made and others to get a chance glimpse of a possible Derby horse going through his paces. Sabbath visitors started arriving early in the morning and came and left throughout the day. Those reaching the track early saw Brevity, go through a gallop of two miles; Dnieper in a similar performance and several others in actual workouts or gallops over the heavy course. Watercure, the Derby nominee owned by the estate of J. L. Carrick, furnished the longest of Sundays several Derby trials when, in company with Grey Jack, he traveled a trying mile through the tough going in 1:51. In spite of the severity of the track, the Carrick three-year-old appeared to have something left. He is a son of Brilliant and Flavia. Another Derby eligible which Sunday visitors saw on the course, was Silas which breezed three furlongs in :39 in preparation for something more ambitious twenty-four hours later. Lawyer Brigade, Wise Duke, Judge Kavanagh and Capt. Cal, were other Derby horses on the Downs track at an early hour yesterday. The latter two breezed a slow three-quarters each while the exercise of the other two was confined to long gallops. Judge Kavanagh was timed in 1:25, handily, while Capt. Cal breezed the same distance in 1:24. Quite a number of yesterdays visitors took time to make close and thorough inspection of the many improvements, added features and changes being installed and scheduled for completion before the opening of the nineteen-day spring meeting a week from Saturday. Though the day was a holiday, pressure of details in connection with the meeting and Derby forced resident manager Daniel E. OSullivan, Harry Lindenberger and others of the track officials to be at their desks a good part of the day.
