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LAWRIN SHATTERS ALL DERBY TRAINING RECORDS WORKS MILE IN 1:38 Finishes Mile and an Eighth in 1 :52 Under Light Urging. Definitely Establishes Himself as Threat for Chief Honors in 0,-000 Added Kentucky Derby. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 27. Shattering-all known training records for horses receiving their Derby preps in Kentucky, Herbert M. Wuolfs Lawrin blazed a mile trail over the Churchill Downs course this morning in 1:38 to definitely establish, himself a powerful threat for the 0,000 fixture to be run here a week from Saturday. The strapping home-bred son of Insco and Margaret Lawrence travelled the early furlongs of his sensational trial at a terrific pace and after completing the mile coasted out an additional furlong under light urging, being timed for the mile and an eighth inl:52. POOR WORK HORSE. This move was all the more remarkable Lecause of Lawrins reputation as a poor work horse, although this morning was the first time that trainer Ben A. Jones really called on the Missouri three-year-old and his gratifying performance bore out a prediction by Jones that the Woolf horse would be as good, if not better for his Derby engagement than he was at the time he won Hialeahs Flamingo Stakes and the three-year-old championship of the Florida season. In preparation for the trial, Lawrin made a gallop of a little more than a mile and then sent into the stall gate in the mile chute where, after a short delay, he sprung into motion. Displaying high speed from the beginning Lawrin went the first quarter in :23. Reaching the main track, he unreeled the next furlong in :11, then added another in :11 to complete the half mile in 46 seconds. Starting the swing around the turn, the Woolf hope reached the end of five furlongs in :584,and. While still negotiating the elbow he accomplished three-quarters in 1:11 and then through the stretch straightaway passed the seven furlongs marker or eighth post in l:24?s. As already said, Lawrin, naturally tired by the early effort expended, eased himself perceptibly after about a mile, but even so his time for the eight furlongs constituted a performance the equal of which has never been recorded here by a Derby horse In a training move. TRACK CUT UP. In his phenomenal mid-morning workout over a track which had been cut up by heavy training earlier in the day, Lawrin had Esco-high as pacemaker the first three furlongs and during the last half mile he was accompanied by Belle Sharmeer. Escohigh, under a drive, had to reel off three furlongs from a very fast start in :34 to keep slightly in the van of the Derby colt. Picking up Lawrin after he had sped five furlongs In Continued on twentieth page. LAWRIN SHATTERS ALL DERBY TRAINING RECORDS Continued from first page. :5846, Belle Sharmeer easily kept pace with him while doing a half mile in :53, which included the furlong Lawrin galloped out. Until Lawrin came along to set work-watchers goggle-eyed, the Derby favorite Stagehand and The Chief, another classic starter in the same st?ble of H. Maxwell Howard, had provided the chief topic conversation by rattling off five furlongs in 1:00. They worked together on even terms and did their trials in handy fashion. Working from the five-eighth post to he wire, they clicked off each furlong in identical time of twelve seconds. Trainer Earl Sande was well pleased with performances of the two colts and said that he now considers starting The Chief, which has not been to the post since last year, in a six furlongs race on Saturday, opening day, and the two Howard horses in the Derby Trial Stakes on Tuesday. WISE FOX ARRIVES. Overnight, another Derby candidate and probable starter joined the local colony when Wise Fox, A. G. Tarns winner of the Louisiana Derby, arrived here from Aurora by van. He was accompanied by the horse Ritz Brothers and made the trip under the personal care of his owner and trainer. Tarn said that Wise Fox probably would start in the Derby Trial Stakes and would have, his first workout of importance- here Satur- i l i : 1 " t s r f i l - i - i day morning. The horse has been doing well in his training at Aurora and while he may not measure up to Derby requirements, Tarn believes that he is entitled to a chance to qualify. Mountain Ridg-, owned by Mrs. Ethel V. Mars, was the only other Derby prospect to work, trainer Robert McGarvey sending the son of Royal Minstrel a slow five-eighths for which he was timed in il:04and.
