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DERBY HOPEFULS WORK OUT Tiger, Mountain Ridge and Lawrin Expected Arrivals. Josh Works Five Furlongs in :59 Under Mild Drive Employer to Besume . Hard Training. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 4. A busy weekend was experienced by many of the candidates for the sixty-fourth Kentucky Derby, to be run here May 7, and their activities served to enliven interest in Churchill Downs rich spring feature. Two of the more formidable hopefuls, Mrs. Ethel V. Mars Tiger and A. C. Comptons Sun Egret, further distinguished themselves last Saturday by accounting for important races. On the Maryland racing front at Bowie, the Compton horse, one of the outstanding winter developments and a bang-up third in the Santa Anita Derby to the current Kentucky Derby favorite, Stagehand, scored an emphatic victory in the Howe Memorial Handicap, while at Oaklawn Park, Tiger romped to an easy win in the Arkansas j Derby. Meanwhile, Co-Sport, owned by Bert Friend, arrived at Churchill Downs from Florida, where he campaigned with a great deal of credit, and Tiger was to arrive today accompanied by Mountain Ridge, another potential Derby threat from the Mars stable. I Also en route here was Lawrin, Herbert M. Woolfs spectacular winner of the Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah, the principal Florida race for three-year-olds. Lawrin, along with a division of the Woolf establishment, which will be represented in Kentucky this spring by forty-odd horses, was reported to have leftHialeah Park and is due here Tuesday. TIGER REGAINS ADMIRERS. As horsemen view it, Sun Egrets Rowe Memorial victory might have been expected off his good winter form, but Tiger needed his convincing Arkansas Derby score to bolster the confidence of his admirers, which had been somewhat shaken by his Santa Anita Derby effort, though it was known, generally, that Robert McGarvey was too severely handicapped by unfavorable conditions to do the colt justice on the West Coast. Besides Tiger and Mountain Ridge, the Milky Way Farm invades Kentucky with thirty other thoroughbreds, many of which are eligible to compete in other of the numerous spring stakes to be run here. Morning visitors to Churchill Downs Saturday and Sunday saw several Derby . nominees in workouts. On Saturday, Valdina Farms Lassator, accompanied by Valdina, i reeled off five furlongs, on a fast track, in 1:01, the quarter in :23, three-eighths in 1:35, and a half mile in :48. Valdina was timed in 1:01. The same day J. S. Hawkins Pepper went a mile in 1:49., the quarter in :26, half mile in :53 and three-quarters in 1:20. : . Mrs. Thelma Otts Employer, getting ready to resume hard training following a short lay-off , as a result of a mild illness, was called on for a slow quarter mile. " Edward Grates Cooks Memorial covered three-quarters in 1:20 and Morris Vehons Invincible went five furlongs for which he was timed in 1:08. Sunday morning,when the track was even in better condition than the day before, James C. Stones Stands Alone breezed three-eighths in :39. JOSH TRAINS WELL. Indicating that he is training in fine fashion, and also reflecting the excellent condition of the racing strip, Ferguson and Hern-dons Josh sped five-eighths in :59. He finished under a mild drive, after having covered the quarter in :22, and four furlongs in :46. Shining Heels, which started out working with Josh, failed to keep up. One of the outstanding horses to breeze Sunday morning was Mrs. E. H. Bartletts handicap ace Zevson, which accounted for several important races at the New Orleans track and, in his last winter appearance, 9 finished second to War Admiral in the Wide- i ner Challenge Cup at Hialeah. Trainer J. J. Baumbach, who at this time is going along slowly with the son of Zev, merely asked him to breeze an easy five furlongs, for which he was caught by the timer in 1:07. With the arrival of starter Hamilton with several of his assistants, schooling will be inaugurated here immediately. Hamilton plans to accommodate horsemen at both Churchill Downs and Douglas Park, where his chief assistant Reuben White, who did the starting at Oaklawn Park, will be in charge. Hamilton will direct similar operations at Keeneland.. As the stables at those three Kentucky courses receive more horses daily, the schooling classes will increase.
