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Big Work Tab With Fast Track at Downs Course Hypostyle and Whirl Blast Caught in Half-Mile Moves CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky., May 6. — Training activity on the fast track here today found a record number of thoroughbreds out for morning trials and several clever moves were registered. Three of the better-regarded candidates for the 1947 renewal of the Bashford Manor Sakes, which is to be decided here next Saturday, visited the course and William Mikels Hypostyle, a homebred who raced well during the New Orleans winter meeting, stepped a handy half mile in :48%. Calumet Farms Whirl Blast, a son of Whirl-away, and Free America, one of the quicker Calumet juveniles, breezed a halt mile in company and the pair was timed in :492/5. James C. Stones Syls Bobby and Ston-ette were out for mile spins and Syls Bobby worked the eight furlongs in l:421/5, while Stonette completed her task in 1:43%. Both the Stone middle-distance stars accomplished their works in handy fashion. J. H. Rouses Three Dots, a very useful sprinter, stepped six furlongs in 1:14, handily, and trainer Jacob Lowenstein sent Porterfield three-quarters of a mile in 1:14V5. Porterfields last start was in November, when he finished third to Jo Agnes and Eternal Reward in an overnight handicap here. Calumet Farms highly rated three-year-old colt, Fervent, who was fired for a splint last March, is training satisfactorily, according to Ben A. Jones, and the son of Blenheim II. and Hug Again breezed five furlongs this morning in l:03ts. Fervent, who whipped the 1947 Kentucky Derby starter, Faultless, by a head margin in the Walden Stakes at Pimlico last autumn, pulled up nicely after his breeze.
