The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-15
DERBY ENTRIES
 WORKING HARD
Prominent Candidates Are
 Training Faithfully For Big Classic Late This
 Summer.

Now that Eternal and several
 other prominent candidates for the
 Kentucky Derby have arrived at
 Churchill Downs training, interest in
 the big race is growing apace. Last
 seasons champion money winning
 two-year-oId still is the probable
 favorIte. He has performed brilliant
 ly in his workouts at Hot Springs,
 where he won his one start without
 being extended.
 Every move made by Eternal is
 public property. He is known 10 aa
 in grand condition and for that
 reason the list of his supporters is growing daily. Billy Kelly, his most
 dangerous rival, is being prepared at Laurel, and what he has done is more or less of a secret. However, he is in the best of hands and it is more than probable that when the day of the race comes around H. c. Bedwell will send this remarkable little geld I.ing 10 the post fit to run the race of his career.
 Billy Kelly will have one race to help tune him up for the big event and his first appearance under colors will he viewed with the greatest Of interest. for there are many who fear that he was raced too much last year and that the hard campaign he went
 through before being fully developed will have a bad effect on his future career.
 last season Billy Kelly raced right trough from early spring to late in the fall and he took part in many a I,o T ed to the limit 10 get down in front. Before Commander J. K. L. Ross purchased him last August several other prospective buyers were in- | clined to bid for him, but were pre- vented from doing so by the report i Of a noted expert. who declared that 1 in his opinion the little gelding had ! already been raced too much and l could not be expected tu last much l longer. The geIding's later perform i ances showed that this opinion was l incorrect, but it may be that his | srueIIingr race with Eternal at Laurel i took a great deal out of him and his i supporters will not rest easy until he
 has shown something worth while 1 this season.
 The failure Of Campfire. the cham | IICL lW N6dI-Dlu 'l l'Ipr LO ildhN i good as a three-year and the failure of Papp and Tippity Witchet l to come back last year are cases too | recent to be forgotten.
 Dunboyne the Futurity winner, 1 has done his preliminary training for
 the Derby at Belmont Park. Trainer ] Hogan has taken his time with Dun, boyne, but this crack colt is fast
 rounding into shape and soon will 1 he burning up the track. Those who ! have seen Dunboyne work are con- | fdent that he will make a great dis l tance horse and he will have many hackers among the local horsemen ] when he starts in the Churchill l Downs classic.
 Sam Hildreth's Purchase is anoth- 1 CT prominent Derby entry that Is do- ing well at Belmont Park IIildreth is just as confident as George Odom, the former trainer of the colt. that ! Purchase will be Q wonderful three i year-oId. HNdreth also has Cirrus 1 entered in the Derby and if both colts round into form on time he may start both in the big race.
 Squire Ebbets has promised to go hack to Jacksonville next spring, and tho Tanks probably will return also. However, no definite arrangements ! have been made. There Is a possi- | bility of the New York Club training . in Miami, Fla. for about two weeks ] next spring and then working north slowly The Boston Nationals form | erly trained at Miami Colonel Rup- pert heard so much about Miami when he was down here last week that he plans to go there next winter to look the place over.