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LATEST DERBY ARRIVALS No Sir and Bernard F. Reach Churchill Downs From Miami. Both Considered Sure Starters in Big Race Providing They Stand Training Other News. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 6. Two more prominent Kentucky Derby eligibles. Miss Mary Hirschs No Sir and I. J. Collins Bernard F., are at Churchill Downs where that race will be run on May 8, having arrived this morning from Miami. They were the most important additions to the number of Derby candidates to come in since the arrival of the eligibles that Earl Sande is training for Maxwell Howard, Sceneshifter and Fencing, and Mrs. W. H. Fursts Gerald, trained by B. B. Williams. Bernard F., a stakes winner last year, when he won five of thirteen engagements, achieved his most important victory of the current year in the Tropical Park Special at Tropical Park, last Saturday. It was the third triumph of the season for the Ohio-owned three-year-old. Bred by his owner, he is a son of Sun God II. and Miss Lillian and is conceded a very good chance to start in the 0,000 Churchill Downs Special. The gelding is conditioned by Al Miller. A stakes winner last year. No Sir probably fell below expectations in Florida where he had only a light campaign, but with a victory over Pompoon to his credit the son of Sortie seems entitled to a chance at the Derby prize, should he continue to train well. His owner, who also directs the training of all her horses, is the daughter of Max Hirsch, who developed last years Derby winner, Morton L. Schwartzs Bold Venture. Continued on eighteenth page.. LATEST DERBY ARRIVALS Continued from first rtage. Miss Hirsch, who arrived here in time to supervise the unloading of her horses, will be the first woman to saddle a horse In Kentucky if she starts No Sir or other of her racers here. The remainder of her stable, embraces the two-year-olds Yes Maam, Charm Circle, Anraichine and Razzle Dazzle and the three-year-old filly Light Moment. All of them shipped in fine style. Bernard F which also came through the long trip in good fashion had as traveling companions other of the Collins horses which raced at Tropical and Hialeah Parks during the season just passed. They included Paradisical, Bushmaster, Erins Son, Slippery Jim, Eastonian, Eye Jay, Debate, Again, Kiev Ray, Chick High and Flying Arch. Another division of the stable has been at Douglas Park for several weeks and two or three in the shipment from Florida may be turned out at the Collins farm at Lancaster, Ohio. Another Derby nominee, but. not strongly considered and decisively beaten in the Arkansas Derby last Saturday, to reach the Winn track this morning was Carl S., owned by Mrs. James Chcsney. He came in charge of jockey Reggie Cooper and was accompanied by the handicap performers Professor Paul and. Cristate, and Blazing Torch, which the stable acquired from R. O. Higdon before leaving Oaklawn Park. DERBY CANDIDATES WORK. Several Derby candidates were seen in action as training operations at the Downs were staged on a sloppy track. They included the Sande-traincd Sceneshifter and Fencing, A. C. Ernsts Albubble, T. H. McCaffreys Heuvelton and John Francis, and J. H. Scurvins Morristown. Sceneshifter and Fencing were sent three-eighths in company in preparation for something more strenuous tomorrow. They were timed in 39 seconds. Albubble went three-quarters, handily, in 1:21; Morristown, three-eighths in :38, and the McCaffcry horses, five furlongs in 1:08. Other arrivals from Florida included the winter division of the Oddesa Farms, embracing ten head, and D. McDiarmid with four belonging to G. H. Emick. The latter horses will rest here for only a short time before proceeding to Missouri, where they are to remain until the opening of the Washington Park meeting. William Stock, with the F. H. Carpenter stable, T. L. Pierce, with his public stable, and John McShane, Nick Burger, Claude Hunt, C. Kranz, Fred Cropper and Jim Gass with smaller strings, also came in from Oak-lawn Park.
