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1 MUDDY AT CHURCHILL DOWNS Attention Focuses on Workout of No Sir, Hirscb Eligible. Gelded Son of Sortie Gallops One Mile Easily In 1:47J Numerous Departures for Keeneland Park. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 15. Principal attention at Churchill Downs this morning focused on Miss Mary Hlrschs No Sir, a3 nominees for the Kentucky Derby, and other horses did their training over a track that was sloppy early and later became muddy. Skies were heavily banked with clouds and occasional showers this morning did not make training conditions pleasant, although they did not materially curtail the conditioning of the thoroughbreds. No Sir, one of the principal candidates on the grounds for the 0,000 race to be run at the Downs on May 8, was sent an easy mile in company with Flying Breeze, from the stable of Anthony Pelleteri, and he accomplished all that was asked of him. Miss Hirsch instructed jockey Ray Yelton, the horses exercise rider, to work the gelding in around 1:48, and No Sir shaded that figure by two-fifths of a second. TENDENCY TO LOAF. Closely attended by the Pelleteri horse. No Sir went the first quarter in :25, the half-mile in :52 and three-quarters In 1:19. Upon dismounting, Yelton advised Miss Hirsch that the horse acted as if he were confident of himself in the sloppy going, but at the same time displayed a tendency, at times, to loaf. In his previous trials here, the Hirsch candidate worked on the outside of his training companions, but today Miss Hirsch ordered him shifted, to the inside. No Sir cooled out nicely and after he had been returned to his box, his owner left for Lexington. I. J. Collins Ohio-owned candidate, Bernard F., winner of the Tropical Park Special, was given a long gallop by trainer Al Miller, but his vacation following his Florida campaign is at an end, and he will resume serious work immediately, Miller said. With owner Collins expected here Sunday, Bernard F. may be among several candidates set down for stiff trials on that day. CHIGRE TO LEXINGTON. The local group of Derby nominees lost an outstanding figure when Chigre, owned by H. C. Applegate, of Louisville, this morning was vanned to Lexington, where, at Keeneland, he will make his three-year-old bow. Trainer J. P. Jones loaded him at Douglas Park about mid-morning and accompanied the Cincinnati Trophy winner on the journey to Keeneland. Among the lesser lights among the Derby eligibles to be seen in action this morning were Phil Reillys Come to Taw, which went three-quarters in 1:25; T. H. McCaffreys John Francis and Heuvelton, which breezed a half mile each, the former in :53, and the latter in :54; J. H. Skirvins Morris-town, which went five furlongs in 1:08, and Ike Weils My Grandson, which blew out three-eighths in :36. During the day several more stables, or divisions of such, got away from the two local tracks for Keeneland, where the Kentucky spring season will be ushered in Saturday. With only a few exceptions all of the horsemen here plan to go to the Lexington track for the opening.
