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• ; - • ■ 1 ; 5 . 5 1 1 . ; - i - ; - f 1 1 e 1 s 1 Four Derby Candidates Test Muddy Downs Strip Fire Power, Diavolaw, Alorter And Rockwood Boy Work Out LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 12— Nothing in the way of trying tests were asked of Derby candidates at Churchill Downs to- day, the training period being conspicuous by the absence of Brolite Farms Challenge Me, Dave Fergusons Bell Buzzer, Erlangers Shut Up and Mandel B. Goffs Skytracer. The latter finished second to Stir Up in the Flamingo Stakes, the other three carry- ing off the laurels in the Arkansas Derby. W. C. Davis Rockwood Boy, Neville Dunns Fire Power, W. Campbell Hobsons Diavolaw and Alorter, were the only Derby eligibles to try the muddy strip. Rockwood Boy and Diavolaw went seven furlongs in .1:35 and 1:34, respectively; Alorter six furlongs in 1 :20 and Fire Power was timed 1:06 for five furlongs. While Challenge Me only has been called upon for two strong gallops since his ar-t rival from the Vapor City, his popularity has not subsided. Today many horsemen were anxious to get the latest quotations on the son of Challenger n., and one of them was Kirby Ramsey, who purchased the colt from Lieut. Warner Jones and then lost him in a claiming race for ,000. "I always believed he was a good horse," said Ramsey, "but no races were filling for him, so I took a chance and now it looks like I lost a top horse." Bell Buzzer will be called upon for slow breezes, said Charles Sanborn, his trainer. His sire, Bel Aethel, who died last summer, led the sires in number of juvenile winners . last year. Bel Aethel was a three-parts brother to Bull Dog and Sir Gallahad III., and was imported during the first year of j the war by Walter Salmon. Although he finished third to Challenge Me and Bell Buzzer in the latest edition of the Arkansas Derby, Shut Up failed to attract admirers. He was well beaten in the nine-furlong Oaklawn special and, prior to that, failed to play an important part in two and three-year-old racing.
