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HANDICAP TRIAL GALLOPS Candidates for Excelsior Handicap to Be Run May 7, Occupy Limelight at New York. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 25. Top candidates for the Wood Memorial, to be run at Jamaica Saturday, and the Kentucky Derby a week later, that are training on Long Island, had a restful week-end. Nothing of importance was shown in a training way, though several of them were under saddle gallops and some are due to be sent along Tuesday morning. Candidates for the Excelsior Handicap, to be run on the same date as the Derby, had useful trials. At Belmont Park Sunday morning, Jack Healey brought out his fathers Tatterdemalion, and he ran a mile in 1:40. The son of St. Germans and Elf, purchased at the C. V. Whitney sale last fall, won himself out handsomely during the Florida season, and he wound up that campaign brilliantly when he took down the 0,000 Tropical Handicap the final day of the season. This gelding, while racing under the Whitney silks, frequently showed flashes of class, and he has since learned to leave the. post more alertly, which adds to his racing usefulness. CHAMPION ELIGIBLE. Of course War Admiral is an eligible for the Excelsior, but with the champion out of the way, Healeys campaigner takes on im portance. Another Excelsior candidate, and one that was also purchased at the Whitney sale, is also coming up to the race nicely. This one is Piccolo, which now races for R. A. Moore. He did his training Sunday morning, also, and when he went a mile and a furlong in 1:55 over the training track at Belmont, it suggested a readiness for the races. Hirsch Jacobs is training Caballero H. at the Jamaica course, and he worked yesterday morning. This South American importation has been steadily improving since his return from Florida, and. when asked for some speed, reeled off a mile in 1:42. ! Infantry, from the MUlsdale Stable, was only breezed three furlongs, and some of the older horses, destined for the Excelsior, were ! out for light exercise. i
