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BREVITY TAKES LONG GALLOP Derby Favorite Canters Mile and an Eighth in Leisurely Fashion. Coldstream Breezes Three-Eighths in A0 Lawyer Brigade Goes Mile in 1:45, Handily Other Workouts. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 18. With many Kentucky Derby candidates, including several of the more fancied ones, taking part in races at tracks elsewhere in the country, and trainer Peter Coyne deferring until tomorrow another serious step in the training of the winter book choice, Joseph E. Wideners Brevity, Churchill Downs today relinquished a forward place in the Derby spotlight. While eclipsed by operations of Derby horses at Arlington Downs, where the Texas Derby was up for decision; at Havre de Grace, where a fine array of Kentucky classic hopefuls clashed in the Chesapeake Stakes, and the meeting of the Derby second choice, Hollyrood, and Tintagel, along with several others in a race at Jamaica, Churchill Downs offered a sufficient amount of activity to hold some of the interest of Derby fans. Commanding chief attention at the Downs this morning was another appearance on the track of Brevity, and, while trainer Coyne postponed working the fleet Florida Derby winner until tomorrow morning, the Philadelphia hopeful was permitted to gallop about a mile and an eighth, during which a large crowd of visitors had ample opportunity to closely inspect the Derby favorite. Among the spectators who witnessed the gallop from the back stretch was Neville Miller, mayor of Louisville, his wife and three of their children. Mayor Miller said that he and Mrs. Miller came out to please the children, who had been pleading for some time to go to Churchill Downs to see the horses, but from the amount of interest evinced by the mayor himself it can be assumed that he is closely following the western Derby candidates. Brevitys stablemate, Dnieper, owned by Mrs. P. A. B. Widener, also was on the track and his work, too, was confined to a leisurely gallop. C. B. Shaffers Coldstream, another of the more formidable western eligibles for the 0,000 classic to be run here May 2,. was given an opportunity to unlimber himself at three furlongs, but traveled at little more than an open gallop. Exercising with Bulwark and Noble Star, Derby nominees of-E. Dale Shaffer, and Masterpiece, another stable companion, Coldstream covered the three-eighths in :40 in preparation for a more ambitious trial, probably tomorrow. The four horses breezed in single file about two lengths apart and all in the same time. The only Derby candidate to work over a route was Mrs. R. J. Murphys Lawyer Brigade, and, in company with Jawapa, he traveled the eight furlongs in 1:45, handily, the three-quarters in 1:16. He and his companion started from the Bahr gate in the mile chute, thereby negotiating only one turn. H. H. Cross Capt. Cal, which, like Lawyer Brigade, is not seriously considered an actual contestant, went five furlongs wit Songmaker in 1:02 and did it in handy fashion. Among other eligibles for Churchill Downs blue ribbon event to gallop were Mrs. Silas B. Masons He Did and Valevic-torian, Charles T. Fishers Erin Torch, Mrs. Bessie Franzheims Silas and others less prominently known. Also of interest this morning was word received by Roscoe Goose and Downs officials that the E. R. Bradley Derby hopes, Banister and Bien Joli, will be here Monday morning from the Idle Hour Farm of their owner, if the weather remains dry. Stalls for the Bradley three-year-olds and sixteen stable companions have been bedded down, Goose said. While the Downs has been the key point for Derby training since the arrival of Brevity and others, the addition of the Bradley hopefuls will make it of greater importance. Idle Hour Farm reports that the two three-year-olds have been showing as much as any ever prepared there for the old fixture, no less than four winners of which carried the well known white and green Bradley silks. An accident marred the mornings training period, when jockey Gerald Gleason fell from the two-year-old Dr. Menendez, owned by Mose Goldblatt. The extent of Gleasons injuries were not immediately known, but he was taken to a hospital for a complete examination. The accident occurred when Dr. Menendez, which Gleason was attempting to work after breaking from the gate, bolted through the gap near the three-quarters post and ran to his stable. Gleason fell as the horse left the track.
