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TECHNICIAN HEADS DERBY TRIAL STAKES FIELD Nine in Overnight Field Including Porters Mite, and Viscounty Mile Contest at Churchill Downs Will Have Effect on Next Saturdays Derby Field — El Chico Among Mondays Arrivals at Louisville LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 1.— The mile Derby Trial Stakes, the last important race for nominees of Saturdays Kentucky Derby, is to feature tomorrows program here at Churchill Downs. Following its running, the field for the 0,000 added fixture this week-end is expected to take definite shape. The Trial, for which nine three-year-olds were named, is to determine whether a number of the less-fancied eligibles have the qualities required of Derby horses. It also will determine whether Herbert M. Woolfs Technician, the Wests first-ranking challenger, is to make any inroads on the position of William Woodwards Johnstown as the Derby favorite. While Johnstown was running away with the Wood Memorial Stakes at Jamaica last Saturday, Technician gained new admirers by the manner in which he accounted for the Daniel Boone sprint at the local course. To closely approach the Woodward star however as the Derby choice, the Kansas-bred Technician will have to show the spectacular tomorrow. There is not the remotest chance for the Woolf colt to displace Johnstown as the Derby favorite if the race is run on a dry track. Technician must win tomorrows engagement to rule the second choice this weekend. However, if he wins tomorrow and the track on Saturday is not fast, the son of Insco might be installed a favorite over Johnstown which, horsemen believe, would be handicapped by muddy or dull footing . FORMIDABLE OPPOSITION. In the Trial tomorrow Technician will be called upon to meet William E. Boeings Porters Mite, Thomas D. Taggarts Yale oNine, Emerson F. Woodwards Viscounty, William H. Whitehouses American Byrd, Mrs. Cecil Gregorys Lostagal, and others. The most important Derby horse among Technicians rivals tomorrow is Porters Mite and the Belmont Futurity winner will be out to retrieve prestige lost since he launched his three-year-old campaign. The West Coast colt is expected to come through with a brilliant performance tomorrow, his connections appearing more satisfied with the son of The Porter than at any previous time. Should he win tomorrows Trial he would be accorded healthy respect in Saturdays supreme test. While tomorrows race was being drawn, El Chico, last years unbeaten juvenile champion and early favorite for the Classic, arrived from New York where the William Ziegler, Jr., star was beaten in his only two starts this year. Accompanied by Our Mat, another Derby nominee in the Ziegler stable, El Chico arrived in good condition and apparently none the worse for the interference he suffered in the Wood Memorial last Saturday. EL CHICOS IMPEDED. Trainer Matt Brady, who accompanied El Chico and Our Mat, said the Ziegler stars final long Derby prep is scheduled for Wednesday. He said that in the Wood El Chico met interference several times and he Continued on ninth page. TECHNICIAN HEADS DERBY TRIAL STAKES FIELD , Continued from first page. thought the colt turned in a splendid effort, all considered. Johnstown and Joe W. Browns T. M. Dor-sett, which was fourth in the Wood Memorial, left New York today and are due in Louisville around noontime Tuesday. Challenge, also eligible for the Derby, is accompanying Johnstown, but it is assumed that he is making the trip to serve as a workmate for the Woodward star. John Hay Whitneys Heather Broom, now at Keene-land, where he received his last long Derby prep this morning, is expected here tomorrow. In his final trial the Whitney colt, winner of the Blue Grass Stakes, traveled the Derby route of one and one-quarter miles in 2:06, a corking accomplishment. Several Derby horses indulged in sparkling private trials over the Downs course yesterday morning as another step in their preparation for Saturdays test. Porters Mite and W. L. Branns Challedon rattled off speedy five-furlong drills, while Mrs. Bessie Franzheims Xalapa Clown ran the mile and an eighth and Junius W. Bells Steel Heels traveled a mile. XALAPA CLOWNS FRACTIONS. In his good distance effort Xalapa Clown went the first quarter in :24%, half mile in :49%, three-quarters in 1:15%, mile in 1:41%, and mile and an eighth in 1:55%. Gay Troubadour accompanied the Franzheim colt the first three furlongs and Top Man joined him for the last three-quarters. Steel Heels, in covering a mile in 1:41%, went the first quarter in :24%, half-mile in :49, and three-quarters in 1:14%. Porters Mite, paced by Air Chute and breaking out of the stall gate in the chute, accomplished his five furlongs spin in :59%, galloping out three-quarters in 1:13%, while Challedon, working alone on the main track, sped the distance in one minute flat. Each of them ran the first three-eighths in :35, with Porters Mite going the half-mile in :47 and Challedon in :47%.
