The evening times., 1896-04-27
BEN BRUSH IN KENTUCKY
Stood the Journey to louisville
Well and Is Restlag.lI
ALL EYES ON THEa CRACK
Ulysses VIII Not Start Unless He
Shows Much ImprOvement-Firs
Mate I he Only Horse Likely to Give
the Dwyer Candidate Any Kind of
an Argument for the Big Event.

I
about whom more has been written OF late
| than concerning any other horse in the coun-
| try. stood the Journey from New York to
| this city splendidly. Tie horse is Just a
| trifle rleshy. and will have TO be worked
down somewhat.
| The Derby is but two weeks off, and
| Campbell, Brush's trainer, says that he
| must rest him for week, at least. This
| leaves but one week TO train Brush To
| the point, and have his wind as sound as
| il is possible for him to be.
| The men handling him. though, promise
| TO do this, and say that Brush VIII go
| to the post in good condition.
Ulysses, Brown Dicks entry, which has
been looked on as Brush's most dangerous
competitor. was sent a mile and quarter
in a:12. The distance was reeled off rath-
er sluggishly, though.
First Mate the Eastn & Larrabie entry,
went the same distance in 2:10 81.
Attention is being turned to the other
entries now as having the horse that can
beat Brush. On The day of thcrace Dwyer's
colt will be a big Cdds-on favOrite. while eff
forts will be made to pick dark horse from
the other entries.
ULYSSES WILL LBESEVERELY TESTED.
Some day before the day for the Ken
lucky Derby Brown Dick will take Ulysses
out place Derby weight on him, and, under
whip and spur from the time the watches
click on him, will send him the Derby dis
tancc. On this will depend largely whether
this horse will start or not. Every bit OF
speed in him will be brought out. and then
II Brown Dick thinks he has sho VII himself
al
fit competitor of Brush he viii start him;
otherwise he will not.
Hart WaHacc has The Winner entered
IN few races at Lexington. These are
simply that he may get line on the colt
and tell what he is able to do. On this also
depends whether this colt will start.
First Mate, Semper Ego, Ramiro and
lockwood are all tipped as entries aud
will bear watching.
The great work OF the two-ycar-olds at
the track is still attra citing attention.
Turtle Dove, Jones Teutou filly, is among
the most generally admired at the Do wns.
She is said by judges to be among the
greatest two-year-olds OF the year. and she
will be eagerly watched by those who have
witnessed her sensational work In training
BRUsH's FIRST TRIAL.
There was large crowd a, the race
track yesterday to see Ben Brush given his
FIRST real Derby prep Nor was lie the
only one who was asked the Question Five
others were also either sent the Derby
route or portion OF it.
The first one to show on the track was
Ulysses. He was sent a mile and an eighth
in sc l-2. He was not pushed. and flu
ished strong. The next one TO show was the
Basbford Manor horse, Parody. The best
lie could do was mile in / Al.
Then came Ben Brush, and there was
craning OF necks 10 see the crack Dwyer
colt. He broke from the balf-mile pole, 60
ing the first half-mile in 90 3-4, the three
quarters in 1917. the mile in 1:43. and the
trifle tired. Ronkwood and Loki, stable COM
panions and Derby candidates, were sent
mile in 1:47.
The best work Of the day. however. was
made by First Mate. uncovered the Derby
route in 2:10, going the last quarter in "a.
Local turfmcn think he is the horse that will
beat Ben Brush, if any one does.
GOT ENOUGH OF BEN BRUSH MONEY.
The first OF the pa st week the odds on Ben
Brush were cut to even money. but little
later ''full'' was marked. opposite his
name Oh the board. Roth Leonaise and Sir
Vassar have been pla yed. with the result
that the former was cut to 40 and the lat
ter 10. The follow are the latest quo
tatiOns: