The evening times., 1896-03-23
RUNNERS It :. louisville j
Over Five Hundred Horses Await
ing Spring Engagements.
WILL BEN BRUSH START ?
Bettors Worried Over the Uncertainty
of the Dwyer Entry Taking Part In
the Kentucky yDerby-Plenfy ofTwo-
Year-Oldsat the Downs-McClelIand
Has Some Promising Animals.

Louisville March 23.-Will Ben Brush
start? This is the one question that is
causing the pla yers OF the future book
on the Kentucky Derby no little concern.
He Is still quoted at 4, and Willie his start
ing is a matter of uncertainty and with
the big field against him he il being pla yed.
and that heavily. Mike Dwyer's instruc-
tions to Secretary Price TO Keep the colt
in until post time is considered encourage
ing TO the speculatively inclined.
Can't Dance is being played some and he
has been cut to 90. Eye Witness is also
liked by some at the same odds. Semper
Ego has many followers. and the colt has
wintered so well that he is looked on
as dangerous. There Is Information to the
effect that Sir Vassar Will spring sur
prise and 1t has caused slump In the odds
form 100 to 80.
Probably no track In the country ever
had so many horses quartered SO early
in the season as are now 10 be found
ut the course Of the New Louisville Jockey
Club. Almost every day adds TO the num-
Der, and by actual count there are now
over 500 at the Downs. While the ele-
ments for several days during the past
week were against work, the prepara-
tions for early spring engagements &c
steadily on, and some lively brushes may
be looked for the next week.
MCLELLAND's THREE-YEAR-OLDs
Among the lot which Byron McClelland
brought down from Lexington are Prince
Lief, Cacsarian, Nimrod, and Moyian.
Nimrod is Mr.. McCielland's entry in the
Oakley and LatOnia Dcrbies. He Is
good-looking chestnut colt, by Spring
box Edith, by Imp. Saxon. The only event
of consequence which went TO linn last
year was the Sensation stakes at LatoDia.
Nimrod is a much stronger, better looking
colt than he was last fall, and while not
an assured fact, IL is very likely that
Mr. McCielland will send him to the post
at the big event at Oakley and Latonia.
Prince Lief, handsome chestnut colt
by King Erie Elemi, probably the be st
three year-old In the West, II their two
year old performance is TO be considered.
is one of Mcclellan nd's trio OF three year
olds, TO which more than one stake is 81 re
TO fan. Prince Lief was in line sixteen
times last year with nine firsts TO his credit,
three seconds and one third
As wo-year-old Mr.. McClelland ran
him against aged horses, and at Morris
Park he won al n mile md an eighth against
ged horses He captured the Youthful
Stakes at Brooklyn and the Flatwood Stakes
at the same place.
Moylan, q speedy bay colt by Bradford
Elsa Rosalind. completes the list which gives
Mr. McClelland the best trio Of three year
olds in the West. Moylan started seventeen
times as a two year-old wOp five. finished
second three times and third twice.
OLD PROBAsCos WORK.
Old Proba SEQ, who more than won his
oats last season for Smith and Ferguson,
is far advance in his work and the service
able old platter is expected to win Few
brackets this spring. He has worked mile
in AS the first of the week.
Both Declare and Axiom, the property
of Phil Dwycr, are being given strong
gallops by Eugene Leigh, and will stand
training for the season.
The best looking twoyear olds at the
track are TO he found in the stable OF
IIankiDs & johnson, and include Little
Ocean, b. c., Little Minch, Ocean; Lonlon
r., ch. T., Terra Gotta, Marie Foster:
Paul G riggs gr. c., imp. Order. Lucy Lisle;
Font Cliff, b. C.. Fonso. Glencliff; Fon-
land. ch. C., Fonso. Jennie. Mcfarland;
Thompson b. c., Terra Gotta, Florence e.
David TenDy. b. c., Tenny. Mamie b.;
Fornich, b. c., Fonso. Annie Richards'
Terra Cha. gr. c.. Terra Gotta, Cycha- Inc
Youngsters are far advanced, and are ex-
pectcd to give a good account OF them
selves.
| When II comes to two-year -olds Ed
| Brown has about sixteen as good-looking
as will be raced in the West this season
He looks upon Everest. brown colt by
| Inn. Esher- lola. as being the best OF the
| lot All OF Brown Dicks strain wintered
well. and his careful attention is clearly
! evidenced in their condition.
Jim Murphy has in his string two-year-
old Tenton colt which is possibly the most
| generally admired youngster at the track.
| Last fall Mr. Murphy offered to match hiin
! against any yearlng for one furionS FOR
| ST 900.
Byron McCleiand has had Caesaria Tired.
| and the colt is just recovering from tue
| the operation. =
A three-year-old filly. Summer Hours. Is
| looked on as having chance for the Men
| lucky Oaks.