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DERBY FAVORITE WORKS j SLOW THREE-QUARTERS J LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 13. Brevity, Joseph E. Wideners slashing three-year-old and favorite for the race, formally inaugurated his training at Churchill Downs, where that race will be run on May 2, with a slow trial over a distance of six furlongs and on a good track this afternoon. With his regular exercise pilot, Adam Schlang, in the saddle, the pride of Elmendorf Farm traversed the distance in 1:20 and was hard held throughout. Since arriving here from Hialeah Park, where he reached the pinnacle position among candidates for the Kentucky Derby by winning the Florida Derby in what then was world record time for nine furlongs, Brevitys exercise has been confined to long, slow gallops. From now on his work will be of a more strenuous nature, and he will be held to a regular program calling for a brisk workout every third day. This afternoon his trainer, Pete Coyne, directed Schlang to maintain a stout hold at all times and to rate his mount over the distnace in about 1:20, Schlang doing an almost perfect job in missing that figure by only one-fifth of a second. Brevity was timed in :26 for the first quarter and in :53 for the half mile. Before working he was galloped about five furlongs and his three-quarters trial started at the sixteenth post.
