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DERBY EL1G1BLES WORK j Candidates for Feature at Louisville ! Entertain Easter Sunday Visitors. I Distance Honors Go to Viscounty and ; Xalapa Clown Six Milky Way Hopefuls Also on Track. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 10. For the edification of Easter morning visitors candidates for the Kentucky Derby stood out prominently in another lively training session at Churchill Downs Sunday. Before a large gallery of thoroughbred enthusiasts and under good training conditions, many of the Derby horses were out for important moves, several of them turning in the most brisk trials they have accomplished since arriving at the Downs, where the Derby will be run on Saturday, May 6. Distance honors went to two Texas Derby hopefuls, Mrs. Bessie Franzheims Xalapa Clown and Emerson F. Woodwards Viscounty, a rising threat among the dark horses. For speed, Mrs. Ethel V. Mars Chicago-owned colts No Competition and On Location were standouts. Besides No Competition and On Location, Roy Waldron, trainer of the Mars stable, also worked four others of the Milky Way Derby eligibles. They were Up the Creek, Giles County, Sports Writer and Magic Key. The only other Derby possibility to work was the locally-owned Steel Heels, the property of Junius W. Bell. IMPRESSIVE MOVES. Trainer A. C. Dettwiler called upon the Santa Anita Derby runner-up Xalapa Clown for a mile test under his regular exercise pilot, Harold Kidwell, in company with Gay Troubadour. The two horses worked over the main track and, always on even terms, they reeled off the distance in 1:46, breezing. The first quarter was run in :25, the half mile in :51 and three-quarters in 1:17. Both horses came out of their trials in good fashion. With Earl Steffen, contract rider for the Valdina establishment, in the saddle, and the older Diavolo Boy as a running mate, Viscounty breezed a mile in 1:46, and since they started from the chute, they negotiated only one turn. Neither horse was ever extended as they went along head and head while completing the opening quarter in :25, the half mile in :51 and three-quarters in 1:18. It was a very fine performance on the part of the Derby eligible trained by John J. Flanigan. Waldron breezed Up the Creek and Giles County three-quarters of a mile and the-: I other Milky Way three-year-olds five furlongs each. In showing the highest speed of-the training session, No Competition and On Location sped along five furlongs in 1:01 as they drilled together. Their time for the first quarter was :23, and the half mile was rounded out in :48. They were in hand all the way. Up the Creek and Giles County, also rated on even terms, covered the distance of their moves in 1:17, the quarter in :25, and half in :50. Sports Writer rattled off five furlongs in 1:03, handily, and like Magic Key, which breezed the same distance in 1:06, worked alone. SMART TRICK DOES WELL. Smart Trick, Morris Vehons Chicago filly which is to pass up the Derby in favor of the Kentucky Oaks later in the meeting, breezed three-quarters in 1:20. Jake Lowen- Continued on sixteenth page. DERBY ELIGIBLES WORK Continued from first page. stein, trainer of the Vehon miss, decided some time ago that he would not rush Smart Trick so as to have her in prime condition before the Oaks. As a juvenile she accounted for four of her ten engagements, and in winning the Prairie State Stakes at Washington Park beat the Santa Anita Derby winner Ciencia, among others. The movement of stables, some arriving from various points while others got away for Keeneland, where the Kentucky spring season opens on Thursday, further enlivened scenes at both the Downs and Douglas Park. Divisions of a number of stables here have gone to the Lexington track, while many have been transferred from Lexington to Louisville, departures from Keeneland being made up chiefly of horses not expected to be ready before the local meet.
