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INFLUX FROM WINTER TRACKS Churchill Downs Is Mecca forMany Stables From Other Points. Fern Creek Breezes One Mile in 1:49 J. C. Milams Decatur Training in Impressive Fashion. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 4 Activity at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park picked up early this week as additional racing stables began to arrive from Hot Springs and Florida. It is estimated that by the middle of the week another 200 thoroughbreds will be quartered at the two local tracks. The heaviest influx is coming from Hot Springs, where the Oaklawn Park season ended last Saturday. Track superintendent Tom Young has issued another plea to horsemen, urging them not to ship to Louisville unless they have been assured stalls. There haye been no additional arrivals of candidates for the Kentucky Derby, but among the horses which came in the last few days are many eligibles for other stakes to be run during the local season, which opens April 29. One of the most important shipments expected momentarily from Hot Springs is the Milky Way Farm stable of Mrs. Ethel V. Mars, an establishment which has made liberal nominations to Churchill Downs stakes. Included in the string coming here in charge of trainer Roy Waldron are seven eligibles for the Kentucky Derby, namely, No Competition, On Location, Up the Creek, Giles County, Magic Key, Rule All and Sports Writer. MILKY WAY PROMINENT. The Milky Way colors have been prominent in Louisville for a number of years, and plans are being made to invade the Downs with another powerful representation this spring. Besides the horses which took part in the Oaklawn Park meeting, the stable is expected to be augmented by a number of horses from the farm, at Pulaski, Tenn. Among the newest arrivals at the two Louisville tracks are the horses of W. F. Morgan and E. E. Fogelson, which Robert McGarvey shipped to the Downs from Texas, and the Brown Hotel Stable of James Graham Brown, Louisville patron. Others to come in the last few days were the racers to be campaigned here by William Crump, J. P. Ebelhardt, Tom Jolley, Leonard J. Wilson, L. V. Bellew, Jr., F. C. Podesta, I. J. Collins, M. J. Schmitt, John Allgeyer and A. N. Lape. Meanwhile, the training hours continued to present busy scenes on the track itself. Continued on twenty-second page. INFLUX FROM WINTER TRACKS Continued from first page. Several Derby eligibles, among them Mrs. Bessie Franzheims Xalapa Clown, indulged , in workouts on the fast track which pre-j vailed Monday morning. The Clown, traveling in company with Gay Troubadour, rattled off three furlongs in :37 and did not have to be urged to accomplish the task. The longest trial of the morning was turned in by Dan Lehans Fern Creek, which ran a mile, breezing, in 1:49. This fellow went the half mile in :55, and three-quarters in 1:22, hard held all the way. J. C. Milams Decatur continues to train in impressive fashion and in covering five furlongs in 1:02, was simply breezing. Ope-lika, a Derby eligible in the same stable, went the distance in 1:03 in handy fashion. Other Derby eligibles in training moves were Mrs. Kate Weils Sleepy Tom and Buddy Rogers, and Theodore E. Muellers Timeful. Sleepy Tom breezed three-eighths in :36, and Buddy Rogers covered the same distance in :39. Timeful was sent six furlongs which he negotiated in 1:20, breezing.
