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P0MP00N IN " SPARKLING . U . MILE WORKOUT Kentucky Derby Favorite Goes Distance in Good Time of 2:08 3-5 Proves Ability to Carry His Speed Over a Route, Being in Hand at All Stages of Impressive Trial at Jamaica Trainer Much Pleased NEW YORK, N. Y., April 26. After Samuel D. Riddles War Admiral had galloped off with the Chesapeake Handicap at Havre de Grace Saturday, Pompoon, his most dangerous rival for the Kentucky Derby, was brought out at Jamaica Sunday for his best distance trial, when he was permitted to gallop along for a mile and a quarter in 2:08. The son of Pompey was in hand all the way, and it was a move that will do much to silence any fears of his ability to race over a distance at Churchill Downs a week from next Saturday. Trainer Clarke was naturally well pleased with the move of his charge, for he has contended right along that the Futurity winner of last year would run just as far as any other horse. This mile and a quarter trial will carry Pompoon along to the mile and seventy yards of the 0,000 Wood Memorial of next Saturday, his next objective, and he is sure to go to the post for that prize a prime favorite. There was a hope that War Admiral would be started in the Wood, but with the Riddle colt out of the way there does not seem to be anything else in the probable Wood field that has shown enough to threaten the Louchheim champion. In his Sunday trial at Jamaica, after going a first furlong In :12, Pompoon went to the quarter in :24, the three furlongs in :37, half in :49, five furlongs in 1:02, six furlongs in 1:15, mile in 1:40, mile and a furlong in 1:54, and the mile and a quarter in 2:08. At every stage of the gallop the colt was well in hand, and he could readily have shaded every quarter of the work. John Hay Whitneys Flying Scot, an eligible for the Wood Memorial, but not for the Kentucky Derby, galloped a handy mile and a furlong at Belmont Park In 1:55, as a part of his preparation for the Saturday Jamaica feature, and he appears to be ready.
