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EASTERN STARS REACH DOWNS Challedon and Porters Mite Arrive on Scene of Derby. Third Degree and Hash Declared Out — Heather Broom to Start — Viscounty May Get Chance. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 28— The safe arrival from Maryland of Challedon and Porters Mite, two of the principal figures in the Kentucky Derby picture, the return of three lesser candidates, Viscounty, No Competition and On Location, from Keeneland, and the entry of Technician, one of the favorites and the Wests foremost hope for the 0,000 race, in an overnight event to be run here tomorrow, were the main Derby developments at Churchill Downs today. Meanwhile at Lexington the Derby status of three other eligibles was clarified, Heather Broom, winner yesterday of the Blue Grass Stakes, being announced as virtually a certain starter in the Churchill Downs fixture with Hash and Third Degree, which met defeat in the same event, being declared out of it. ~ Challedon, owned by W. L. Brann, and Porters Mite, the three-year-old star of W E. Boeings pretentious stable, arrived in charge of their trainers, Louis J. Schaefer and Ted Horning, respectively, and both shipped in excellent fashion. Air Chute, a stablemate, accompanied Porters Mite while Challedon had only a stable pony for company on the trip from Havre de Grace. CRACK TRAINER. Schaefer, a former jockey who has become a signal success as a trainer, said that ho does not plan to start his triple Futurity winner until he fills his engagement in the Derby. He pointed out that the colt is in excellent condition and needs only enough work to keep him on edge for next Saturdays classic. Jockey George Seabo, who will handle Challedon in the Derby, is due here Thursday, according to the trainer. Horning,, a native of Loiusville, who is returning here after an absence of twenty-five years, plans to start Porters Mite in Tuesdays Derby Trial Stakes as a final public prep for the Derby. He too says that his charge has been training splendidly and will come up to the Derby in splendid condition Horning said the Boeing coifs rider, Johnny Adams, would be here Monday from the East. The decision to. keep John Hay Whitneys Heather Broom in Kentucky was reached at Lexington this morning in a three-way conference among trainer Earl Sande, Major Louie A. Beard, head of the Whitney thor- Continued on thirty-fourth page EASTERN STARS REACH DOWNS Continued from first page. oughbred operations, and "Jock" Whitney, who is in London and was contacted via the short wave telephone. Heather Broom, which turned in such a good performance in capturing the Blue Grass Stakes, is to be given another workout at Keeneland Monday or Tuesday and if he shows he is improving, will be sent over to Louisville for next Saturdays stake. It was after the defeat in the Blue Grass Stakes of Hash and Third Degree, owned by the first lady of the turf, Mrs. Payne Whitney, mother of J. H. Whitney, that these colts were withdrawn from the Derby field. Failing to measure up to Derby qualifications, the Greentree Stable three-year-olds, along with other members of the string, were sent to New York. STILL POSSD3DUTY. Viscounty, Jthe hope of Emerson F. Woodwards Valdina Farms, and No Competition and On Location, two of seven Derby eligi-bles in the Milky Way Farm stable of Mrs. Ethel V. Mars, returned from Lexington today, their records during the Keeneland meeting hardly recommend them as ranking Derby challengers. The Mars Stable has not announced its intentions regarding starters in next Saturdays race, but Valdina still is inclined to give Viscounty a chance to win fame and fortune in the Churchill Downs special. Mrs. Bessie Franzheims Xalapa Clown, another of the more fancied candidates quartered at the Downs, made a gallop here this morning and there was no change in his characteristic choppy way of going. It was indicated today that the Eternal colt would pass up the Derby Trial Stakes next Tuesday and make his next public appearance of the season when he comes out in the Derby parade. Mrs. Cecil Gregorys Lostagal, which is receiving his Derby preparation at Douglas Park, developed a slight soreness in a shoulder after his last workout, but was much improved today and, according to trainer J. R. Gregory, will start in the Trial, if no further mishap befalls him.
