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SLIEVE GALLION IS DERBY FAVORITE. London, June 4.— A tremendous throng will see the one hundred and twenty-eighth reaming of thu Derby at Epsom Downs tomorrow. Captain Greers SUeve JalUou will start a hot. favorite anil M i.jor Lodera GaSvanl, Lord Roseberys P.e-BOnisn and Riclinrd Crokors Or by will have strong backing. Willi. mi MiLt.-s. who was tin- premier jockey of 1908, will have the mount on he favorite, and he is confident of winning. Slievo BaTHon is the picture of health and he is as lit ;|S in he for the graelttag race at one mile ami a half. Fanny Maher will have the mount on Bssoaian, and ii hi- I.ii!- it will h.- his foiii i h Derby, lie rode Beck Sand in loo::. Cieerq in 1900, and Spent mint hud year. Johnny Reiff, another American, will have Hi,- inoimt on Orby, the colt in which Americans are ssssl Interested, because he is owned by the former Tammany chief, because be is out of an Americas nine ami because he will be ridden by an American jockey. Laden Lyne will ahm have a m.inut i ?i the race.
