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DERBY ELIG1BLES WORK Resume Brisk Preparations After Lull on Easter Sunday. Mountain Ridge, Lawrin, Stagehand and The Chief Among Those Clocked at Churchill. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 18 Following a lull on Easter morning, when none of the important Kentucky Derby candidates housed at Churchill Downs attempted any serious exercise, they swung back into brisk work today. Three of them, Milky Way Farms Mountain. Ridge, Herbert G. Woolfs Lawrin and Bert Friends Co-Sport, were called upon for long trials, while Maxwell Howards current Derby favorite, Stagehand, and his stable companion, The Chief, also slated to start in the. sixty-fourth running of the Kentucky fixture on May 7, took short gallops preparatory to distance conditioners tomorrow. Track and weather conditions are of the highest order, although there did develop a threat of rain about the time training activities came to a close. Tiger, also a Milky Way Derby hope and winner of the Arkansas Derby, Mrs. Payne Whitneys Gangplank and several other more lightly regarded nominees were confined to long, slow gallops. Tiger is expected to work a short distance tomorrow and the following day may have another route test. MOUNTAIN RIDGE ROGUE. Mountain Ridge, rogue of the Downs Derby colony, accomplished the longest of this mornings workouts, but did it under protest, the son of Royal Minstrel stubbornly refusing to put a great deal of effort into his running. He was timed in 2:01 for a mile and an eighth, the first three-quarters of which he negotiated in 1:17. Lawrin added another impressive move to his local training record when he breezed a mile in 1:45 and the same distance in 1:45, nicely in hand, marked another splendid move by Co-Sport. On the track together, Stagehand and The Chief clicked off three-eighths in :36, and the latter, declining to pull himself up as trainer Earl Sande had directed, went out a half mile in :50 before his rider could slow him down. Continued on twenty-second page. DERBY ELIGIBLES WORK Continued from first page. The trials of Lawrin and Co-Sport were carried out in even style, Lawrin getting over the first quarter in :25, the half mile in :50 and three-quarters in 1:16, while Co-Sport was timed in :26, :51 and 1:18. CANT BE FOOLED. In an attempt to fool the Foxy Mountain Ridge, trainer Robert McGarvey brought out Quick Getaway to join the Derby horse in the final half mile, but Mountain Ridge was not to be hoodwinked and the presence of Quick "Getaway did not influence him to extend himself in very kind order. As a matter of fact, Mountain Ridge worked more freely before he was joined by the other horse. Unaccompanied, he went the opening quarter in :24, and the half mile in :50. After five-eighths, in 1:03 he was "picked up" by Quick Getaway whereupon he showed an inclination to loaf. After completing three-quarters in 1:17, the sulking became more pronounced and considerable effort on the part of his exercise rider was required to get him a mile in 1:45 and the prescribed distance of nine furlongs in 2:01. Quick Getaway, his neck bowel by stout restraint, was never out of a breeze during the four furlongs he accompanied the Derby colt. Quick Getaway was timed in 57 seconds. The trial of Mountain Ridge started at the furlong post while Lawrin and Co-Sport went into action at the stand, and the Howard pair broke at the three-eighths pole. McGARVEY NOT ALARMED. Although Mountain Ridges manner of conducting himself might have disturbed a horseman not knowing his temperament, trainer McGarvey said that he is doing better from time to time and that he is not alarmed by the loafing tendencies. It is believed that the addition of blinkers to his equipment will cause him to take his work more seriously and as his Derby preparation call for a race or two, he should not want for sufficient conditioning for his big engagement. Churchill Downs officials were advised that Mrs. Payne Whitneys chief Derby candidate, Redbreast, would be shipped here immediately after the Wood Memorial Stakes at Jamaica. He will be accompanied by two other horses from trainer William Bren-nans main division of the Greentree establishment and they will be quartered in the same barn with the Western unit of the stable looked after by John M. Gaver. In all, Mrs. Whitney will have twenty-five horses here.
