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Milky Way Farm Stable Expected at Louisville y - 1 - Reaping Reward Heads Mars String- Due From Arlington Downs Arrival of Kentucky Derby Future Book Second Choice Increases Interest in Big Race. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 19. Interest in the preliminary training here of candidates for the Kentucky Derby, to be run at Churchill Downs on May 8, is expected to receive impetus with the expected arrival late this afternoon of the Milky Way Farms Reaping Reward, currently the second choice in the future betting on the race to J. H. Louchheims Pompoon. Reaping Reward was to head a shipment, which included four other Milky Way eligi-bles for the Downs feature Case Ace, Military, Murph and Jaw Breaker. In all, twenty-nine horses comprise the shipment, which was to come from Arlington Downs, where, on Saturday, the Milky Way Farms Kentucky Oaks nominee. Mars Shield, won the Texas Derby. The horses are trained by Robert McGarvey, and, under his direction, they performed with credit during the winter in California and at Arlington Downs this spring. TRAINING IMPRESSIVELY. Reaping Reward, which has been training impressively at the Texas course, has not faced the barrier since he raced to victory in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs last fall. This son of Sickle last year also won the New England Futurity at Narragansett and the United States Hotel Stakes at Saratoga and his total earnings as a two-year-old totalled 6,965, a figure which was second only to Pompoons among the juveniles of 1936. Two of the more important Derby hopefuls quartered here, Mrs. F. H. Fursts Gerald and Col. H. Maxwell Howards Scene-shifter, were seen in useful mile spins over a fast track this morning. The former went the distance in 1:42 and the latter three-fifths of a second slower, although except for the fraction of a second difference in their times, there was little to choose between the two works. Gerald, working under the direction of trainer B. B. Williams and accompanied for a time by Flying Breeze, went the first quarter in :24, the half in :49 and the three-quarters in 1:15. Flying Breeze was driving to go the eight furlongs in 1:44. SANDES CHIEF RELIANCE. Sceneshifter, accompanied by Fencing, also eligible for the Derby, was under stout restraint through his work while Fencing was being urged to go the full distance in 1:43. Their fractions were :24, for the quarter, :49 for the half mile and 1:16 for the six furlongs. Trainer Earle Sande was well satisfied with the effort of Scene-shifter, which is his chief reliance in the 0,000 special. Followers of Derby horses had their first view of I. J. Collins Bernard F. in some- Continued on nineteenth page. MILKY WAY FARM STABLE EXPECTED AT LOUISVILLE Continued from first page. thing more than a gallop Sunday morning when he breezed five furlongs for his first real work since arriving here from Florida. Collins and a party of friends motored here from Lexington, where they attended the opening at Keeneland and watched the home-bred son of Sun God II. go through his paces, and they were well pleased with the move. Breaking at the five furlongs post with Debate, a stablemate, Bernard F. was timed for the five-eighths in 1:03, and at no time during the spin was he extended. He went out three-quarters of a mile in 1:18. Debate managed to keep up with the Derby nominee for about three furlongs, and then began to drop back, its time for the five furlongs being 1:0-1. TO RESUME TRAINING. Bernard F., which was given a brief respite after his victory in the Tropical Park Special, can be expected to continue with his regular training program from now until he fills his intended engagement in the Derby. Earl Sande had the two H. Maxwell Howard nominees, Sceneshifter and Fencing, on the track for short spins in preparation for longer works later. Keeping abreast of each other they went three furlongs in :37, the quarter in :24. Bernard F.s fractions were :25 for the quarter mile, and :51 for the half. Although the weather was pleasant Sunday and the track fast, it was not work day for the remaining Derby candidates here, and they indulged only in slow gallops. One of the biggest crowds of the spring was out to view the activities, and they saw few Derby candidates in action. Plenty of others were out to hold the attention of tho visitors, however.
