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CO SPORT TRAINING WELL Certain Starter in Derby Has Long and Beneficial Trial at Downs. i Stagehand, The Chief, Mountain Ridge In Long, Slow Gallops Earl Sande Indisposed. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 26. Co-Sport, Bert Friends hope for a Kentucky Derby victory, which has been pointing for the 0,-000 race a week from Saturday, almost unnoticed, i got in another long and beneficial I trial over the Churchill Downs course here 1 this morning. The son of Cohort, whose 1 trainer, R. T. Runnels, announced that the horse would definitely start in the big race, i covered a mile and a furlong over the prevailing -1 fast track in 1:56 in handy fashion ; as another step in his preparation. He galloped the full Derby distance of a mile and i a quarter in 2:11. Although a small horse, Co-Sport has accomplished , every task asked of him in a . manner most satisfactory to his connections, and . daily more followers of the Derby horses ! are rallying to his support. The Cincinnati-owned i three-year-old, which raced well in : Florida during the winter after a successful campaign last year as a juvenile, has kept ; pace with the more prominent Derby candidates, and trainer Runnels is well pleased with him in every particular. Co-Sport will have another brisk work later in the week and next Tuesday is to make his spring debut in the Derby Trial Stakes at the Downs, a race which now shapes up as a real preview of many of the Derby contestants. Among others likely to be seen under colors in this added money event are the Derby favorite, Stagehand, and his stablemate, The Chief, Lawrin, Mountain Ridge, Wise Fox and possibly several of the colts still at Keeneland. AVOIDS DEEP FOOTING. Co-Sport, carrying about 124 pounds, which included his regular exercise pilot, jockey Raymond Yelton, was never permitted to get closer to the inside rail than about fifteen feet, the idea being to avoid the deeper footing on the inside. Working along the Ohio candidate went into motion at the eighth pole and nicely rated," covered the quarter in :24, half in :50, three-quar- f Continued on fifteenth page. CO-SPORT TRAINING WELL Continued from first page. ters in 1:16 and the mile in 1:43. Upon dismounting, Yelton said Co-Sport ran easily all the way and might have run in faster time, in spite of the great amount of ground lost as a result of the wide course he was asked to follow. While their trainer, Earl Sande, was slightly indisposed and remained at his hotel until later in the day, Stagehand and The Chief, which represent the Derby hopes of H. Maxwell Howard, another Ohioan, indulged in long gallops, each of them covering two miles. Sande is suffering from the lingering effects of an attack of influenza he contracted in California. Mrs. Ethel V. Mars Mountain Ridge, back from Keeneland, also went through a long, slow gallop, as did Herbert M. Woolfs Lawrin. Wise Fox, A. G. Tarns Derby eligible, Is expected from Aurora tomorrow. From information received Here, the Canadian turfman plans to start the Louisiana Derby winner in the Derby Trial Stakes, and if he qualifies he may be, expected to be in the Derby field.
