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ALL EYES ON THE DERBY ICENTUCKYS GREAT RACE AROUSING KEEN INTEREST THROUGHOUT COUNTRY. Round the World, Favorite for Premier Contest of Churchill Downs Spring: Meeting:, Likely to Race at Lexington as Fart of Her Preparation. Louisville, K.v., April 15. Round the World, favorite for tin; Kentucky Derby, may go to Lexington lo race as part of her Kentucky Derby preparation. W. G. Yanke. her trainer and manager, seems to think it is wise to give her a race on the eve of the Derby lo put her thoroughly on edge. Kound the World has started so far this season in seven races. Tile resume is interesting: February 7 Won Zacateeas Handicap, seven furlongs, ill: iHjunds, 1:25. March 17 Won San Patricio Handicap, one and one-sixteenth miles, 115 pounds. 1:45, equaling record on the Juarez course for the distance. .March 5 Won Juarez Oaks, one mile, 122 pounds, 1:1193. April 2 Won Juarez Derby, one and one-eighth miles. .121 iMiuuds. 1:545. track slow. February 11 Second in Tabasco Handicap, won by Follie Levy, six furlongs. 1:11s. HO pounds, beaten two and one-half lengths. February 22 Setou-d in Washiuglou Handicap, woii by Intrinsic, one mile. 1:111, track heavy. 110 ihjuihIs, beaten four lengths. March 12 Third in Priniavera Handicap, won by Trance, six furlongs. 1:11?,. 114 pounds, beaten two noses. .1 i in Basey being second. Kound the World conceded weight to both Intrinsic and Trance and had about an even break with Follie Levy. This record dispels the idea that Kound the World has done too much racing this year. Seven starts in three mouths does not show that she has been asked to race excessively, as 1h-Heved by some. The Juarez Oaks and the Juarez Derby were easily achieved victories for her. She was really only ealled upon to do her best when she struggled against older horses. It was the general opinion among the. best-informed horsemen at Juarez that there was not a racer there that could beat Kound the World at a mile, weight for age. They regard it: as ridiculous that any three-year-old in traiuing has a chance to defeat her in any kind of a race. They believe that 1 luiuiiig-iig.tiiist opponents of her own age" she will stay over any route, and they predict that in another season she will le as invincible among older horses as linp In her palmy days. It is no secret that W. !. Yanke. who is one of the most spectacular of bettors, would not hesitate to match her for 0,000 against any three-year-old in America at equal weights. The ehances are that he would be willing for the owner of the opposing horse to name the distance. Kound the "World will be ridden in the Derby by M. MeGcc, who piloted her iu both of her victories in the Juarez Oaks and Derby. McGee insists no three-year-old iu training has a chance to beat her. lie regards her victory in the Kentucky Derby as a foregone conclusion. Governor Gray, winner of the Derby at Jacksonville. Is second choice. Other prominent contenders are Captain Cnrmody, Meridian. Silver II rush, La-bold, Fez. lteach Sand and Dell Horse. The field will be of fair proportions. W. G. Yanke. trainer of Kound the World, favorite in the Derby, has arrived from California. He is pleased with the condition of his great lilly and took occasion to compliment the stable bands on the attention they had given her in shipping from Juarez. From now on he will devote a great part of Iiis time to keying her up for the big race of May 1.!. Mr. Yanke shipped Jupiter Joe and Gllpy lo Dallas. Jupiter Joe has been fired and will not be raced again until next winter. Kound the World was given some fast work this mornlug at the Iown,s for the first time since she was a two-year-old. She strided beautifully. A horseman at the Downs discussing the work of the Derby maiden candidate, Colston, in the mud. said: "If the track is heavy oii Derby day. Colston, with his twelve lounds allowance, is sure to have a chance. He worked one mile and a quarter in 2:1". pulled up. Another Derby maiden. Mud Sill, from W. H. Fixers stabhi. is working well. He is a half-brother to Pinkola and has raced but once. Colston will get into the. Derby at lo". Mud Sill will carry but 101. Governor Grays weight will be 11! and Kound the World will carry 117. They lose all allowances by reason of their winter Derby victories. At the same time their successes in those races will not penalize either of them. W. II. Fizer is working Boca Grande daily. This liorse is training well. He pulled up sore the last time he raced at Jacksonville, but lie is going soundly now and is on the coiu-se every morning with Rye White. Jockey A. Burton is here. Pat Dunne has arrived from Kansas City. lie inspected his racers this morning at the Downs. He has Sebago, Pilaih and the filly Damson. Edward Jasper, acting secretary of the New Louisville Jockey Club, will be in Cincinnati tomorrow. The Downs and Douglas Park courses "will be fast by tomorrow. W. St. Vincent of California is here with his racers. lie has Sam Barber and others. The Douglas Park rail-birds like John Louis, the western horse in- J; H. Meades stable. Chapultepec is also in good form. Hugh McCarreu has reached here witli ten horses, mostly two-year-olds from his breeding stud. He had to rent a stable for his string outside of the Downs. He did not fancy going to Douglas Park, and Acting Secretary Jasper had no quarters- for his stable within the inelosure of the New Louisville Jockey Club. Kvery stall at the Downs is now tilled or engaged by horsemen yet to come, but there is still abundance of room at Douglas Park. J. P.. Kespess -will transfer his stable from the latter place to the Downs In a few days. The Kespess string has been doing so well at Douglas Park that he has delayed breaking camp there, but he has always trained at the Downs, so he will return to the track on which he fitted Wintergreen for his Kentucky Derby triumph in 1900. Ill-advised legislation having temporarily banished thoroughbred racing from the tracks iu the state of New York quite naturally the turfmen who have heretofore operated upon the metropolitan courses turn toward Kentucky, where the snort is secure and flourishing as never before. The spring meeting of the New Louisville Jockey Club, which opens May i:i. with the thirty-seventh renewal of the Kentucky Derby as the chief feature, promises to attract more easterners of turf renown and wealth than at any before since its establishment liv Col. M. Lewis Clark iu 1S75. The running of the Derby of 1911 will recall that great event iu the spring of 1S7G. when the multi-millionaires of the east gathered in the Downs paddock to see the famous Vagraut and the mighty Parole saddled for the big race. Vagrant had been purchased by W. B. Astor of New York. Pierre Lorillard. the New Jersey tobacco king, owned Parole. This race is recalled now because it lias special bearing upon the event of this season. This spring Governor Gray holds the reputation or being the liest of the two-year-old colts Continued ou second pajje. ALL EYES ON THE DERBY. Continued from first page. of 1910 in the west, while Bound the World ranked as one of the queens of two-year-old racing last year, both east and west. They are at present the most talked of among the Kentucky Derby candidates. In 1SVC Vagrant came to the Derby contest as the unquestioned champion of western two-year-olds of the previous season, and Parole was the first of his age in the east as a kindergarten performer. That day the owners of both these horses were the guests of President M. Lewis Clark, and they viewed Ihe running of the two geldings from the old club house, now used for other purposes on the south side of the track. Vagrant won the race, with Creed-moor second and Harry Hill third. Parole liuished fourth and ran as if a little sliort for the race. It was his first start as a three-year-old. Vagrant was more seasoned, having won the Phoenix Hotel Stakes -at Lexington the week previous. Vagrant was a gaunt gelding, racy looking and with a dazzling burst of speed. He raced on for several seasons, but the Derby was his most notable performance. iMr. Astor Anally sold him for. ,500 and Vagrant ended his days in the selling race brigade. Parole, though defeated in the Kentucky Derby by Vagrant, far outsrlpped him in succeeding years, earniug not only fame in this country but in England as well. Even at the age of six years lie defeated in England the great lsonomy, still rated in Great Britain as one of the best horses of the century. The Derby in 1S7C was not the only one won by Mr. Astor. In the spring of 1S77 he paid D. Swigert 2,500 for Baden Baden and captured the big race with the son of Australian. Baden Baden surpassed the achievements of Vagrant, for in 1S77 he won the rich Travers Stakes at Saratoga, defeating Brada-mailte. Baden Baden was established as a sire on the Astor farm near New York. For a number of years Mr. Astor raced horses, but on a limited scale. Jlis most notable seasons were those in which ho won the Kentucky Derby. P. Lorillard, upon the other hand, was the W. C. Whitney of the early days of racing around New York. He was the only American turfman that ever won the Epsom Derby with an Amerifan-bred horse, Iroquois. And he was, and is, the only American turfman that ever won the Doncaster St. Leger. In this event it was Iroquois which finished in front. Mr. Eorillnrd maintained the famous Bancocas Stud in New Jersey as long as he lived and annually raced one of the greatest strings of horses in training. The closing-out sale of the Lorillard racers, following his death, has only been duplicated in America when the elder August Belmont and W. C. Whitney died. It was at the Lorillard dispersal that Dwyer Bros, paid 9,000 for Dew Drop, which remains the highest .price ever paid at a public auction in this country for a three-year-old Ally. Coming to see the Kentucky Derby this spring is Cap. E." 15. Cassatt, a son of the late A. J. Cassatt, who was president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The elder Cassatt was a great factor on the turf in the Astor and Lorillard days. He won the Suburban Handicap with Burns and the Brooklyn Handicap with The Bard. lie also bred Cold Heels, another winner of the Suburban. Gold Heels was by The Bard Heel and Toe, with which he won the Manhattan Handicap. The appropriately named horse. Now or Never, was also raced by Mr. Cassatt. Now or Nevcrs dam was Bye and Bye. Another great mare raced by him was Equity. Still another was Maumee, the gramldam of Round the World, present favorite of the Kentucky Derby. Some of the horses that will be raced this spring at Churchill Downs by Captain Cassatt carry in their veins the strains of blood that. made the elder Cassatts Chesterbrook Farm In Pennsylvania so famous. In the days when A. J. Cassatt controlled the Pennsylvania system, horsemen were accorded every privilege on that line. One season three big stables left the west for Jerome Park and though the hill of lading, issued in Cincinnati, specitied the delivery of the horses, men and hoys in Jersey City, a conductor who assumed charge of the train at Pittsburg, forced the owners of these horses to pay additional fare from Pittsburg to Jersey City for themselves, the men and the boys. The money involved amounted to several hundred dollars. President Cassatt, who was in New York, opon learning the facts, immediately refunded from his own pocket the full sum collected and discharged the conductor. Evbn when his business affairs became so exacting that he found it impossible to see hut one race in a year he continued his breeding establishment and maintained his Jockey Club membership. Captain Cassatt is emulating his father in his affection for the turf. The elder Cassatt bred Nellie Bly, the dam of Round the World. He sold her when she was a yearling and she raced under the colors of E. J. McElmeer. And so it will bo with a fooling of keen interest that Captain Cassatt will witness the running of the 1911 Kentucky Derby, for which W. G. Yankes great filly is favorite. Captain Cassatt is delighted because in the winner of the Juarez Oaks and Derby of 1911 Nellie Bly has more than reproduced herself.
