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KEENELAND TRACK SLOPPY Menow, Bourbon King and Others in Trial Gallops. Numerous Kentucky Derby Candidates on Lexington Track for Usual Period of Training Work. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 9. Despite wintry blasts and intermittent snow flurries, Menow, Hal Price Headleys Kentucky Derby and Blue Grass Stakes candidate, and several other eligibles for these two coveted prizes went through excellent drills over a sloppy track at Keeneland Park this morning. The track, which was floated last night, had a firm bottom and this enabled Menow, which was one of the first to reach the course, to go five furlongs in 1:00 and pulling up six furlongs in 1:16. The son of Pharamond II. and Alcibiades was on the track shortly before 6 oclock and, displaying brilliant speed from the time he commenced his task at the five and a half furlongs post, he ran the distance in :ll, quarter in :23, three-eighths in :35 and half mile in :47. Preeminent, which is assigned top weight of 132 pounds for the Phoenix Hotel Handicap, opening day feature on next Thursday, accompanied him and they went along as a team. LIKES MUDDY FOOTING. Bourbon King, also from the Headley barn, displayed a distinct liking for the slop by turning six furlongs in 1:15, breezing. He was clocked the half in :48. Although not eligible to the Blue Grass Stakes, Bourbon King, which was runner-up to Lawrin in the Flamingo Stakes, is eligible to compete in the Kentucky Derby. It also was workday for Copy Cat and Dah He, also from the Headley stable, and the former ran six furlongs in 1:17, handily. Dah He breezed a slow three-eighths in :40. Congressman and Ball-o-Fire, the pair of Kentucky Derby candidates Tom Young is training, breezed six furlongs each, the former being clocked the distance in 1:21, and Ball-o-Fire in 1:21. Mrs. A. M. Creechs Sir Ally breezed six furlongs in 1:19 in company with Sister Polly, and Valdina Farms Lassator, with Eagle Pass as a running mate, was clocked seven furlongs in 1:34. MAIN MAN SHOWS SPEED. Main Man, J. B. Respess sparkling homebred four-year-old, which was assigned 120 pounds for the Phoenix Hotel Handicap, splashed three furlongs in :40. At a meeting of the board of directors of the Keeneland associaton the present officers were re-elected: Hal Price Headley, president; A. B. Gay, first vice-president; Dr. F. W. Rankin, second vice-president; W. H. Courtney, treasurer; Brownell Combs, secretary; Miss Martha Brown, assistant secretary, and Roy Carruthers, general manager. Only routine business, which consisted of approving the erection of the two new barns and plans for the eleven-day meeting, was discussed. Jack Weaver is bringing three horses, the property of W. E. Smith, to Keeneland Monday.
