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DERBY INTEREST IS KEEN ROUND THE WORLD AND GOVERNOR GRAY HAVE GREATEST NUMBER OF PARTISANS. Prominent Candidates for Notable Contest at Churchill Downs May 13 Training1 Satisfactorily Records of Previous "Winners of Race. Louisville, Ky., April 22. That interest is already intense in ilie thirty-seventh renewal of the Kentucky Derby is attested by the fact that every morning now at both of the loeal tracks Churchill Downs and Douglas Park crowds gather to see the various candidates takes their work for the big race. The Derby is down for decision Saturday, May 13, only three weeks off, and trainers are sending their charges along daily, as no time ean be wasted in fitting the three-year-olds to go the Derby route of a mile and a quarter. When uot noting the work of Kound the World. Colston, Silver Brush, Captain Carmody, Mud Sill, Raniazan. Exemplar and Sir Dawn, which arc in training here, horsemen can be noticed eagerly scanning the dally papers for news from the other tracks of the work of entries to the race, like Governor Gray. Meridian, Iibold. Beach Sand. Bell Horse, Marlborough, Tay Day and Star ORyan. They compare what they read with what they sec, and at times discussion waxes hot over the merits oT the various candidates. The turfmen from Juarez picture Round the World leading from the flag fall to liuish and winning, as she has so often done, off by herself, while the horsemen from Jacksonville see Governor Gray closing on her at the eighth pole in the stretch and beating her to the stand, thus serving her with the fate which has befallen so many favorites in this great race. There never was a Derby run in which the owners of the various candidates were so confident of the success of their respective representatives. W. G. Yanke, trainer of Round the World, acts as though he thinks he has only to go to the secretarys otiice and get a cheek for the Derby stakes of ,000. -while they say at Lexington that J. T. Williams and Ills racing partners are equally sure of Governor Grays victory. The Missouri turfman, Barney Sehroiber, thinks both of these camps are countiug tlieir chickens before they are hatched, as he believes Captain Carmody has a chance to beat them both. And so it goes. It is a marked feature of the work of these horses iliat all of them are training splendidly. Of course,. Kound the World. Governor Gray and others in the lot which have raced the past winter are really lit now for a Derby nice with a little tightening up, while those that did not participate in cold weather racing are farther advanced in training this season than ever before. As a result, there will be no excuse for condition for any of the starters this season in the big race, and they will be beaten on their merits and not because of lack of work. There has never been a meeting held in Kentucky which ean approach the coming spring carnival of twcnty:throe days here in the general class of the contestants among the horses. It will be a great Derby. The twoi.vear-oId stakes and other features will all have excellent fields. The purse races and overnight handicaps will be far above the average in quality. The class of riders piloting the various horses will "represent the pick of American jockeys, and the premier of American starters. Mars Cassidy. will be at the barrier to see that every horse facing him gels an even break. From almost the beginning of racing. Derby trophies have been the most sought after prizes of the turf. Though sometimes an insignificant value has been attached to such contests, as compared to other races, a halo has always enshrined the winners of such contests. The winning of sueh a trophy has rendered perpetual the fame of nearly every horse first under the wire in the Kentucky Derby. Frank Forrester, in his "Horses of America," published more than lifty years ago. describes a race the material for which he claims to. have found in one of limners volumes. Forrester drew the deduction that this description applied to the worlds lirst Derby. The first Derby in history was decided at Epsom, Eng.. in 17SO. It derived its name from. Lord Derby, compiler of the conditions of the race. The lirst Derby winner was Dioiued. which was subsequently . imported to America. Both Round the World, lirst choice, and Governor Gray, second choice in the 1011 Kentucky Derby, trace to this great horse. It is interesting to review past winners of the Kentucky Derby and note the achievements of many of its brilliant winners. The compilation herewith, the first of its kind, shows the turf records of the thirty-six winners of this historic race. Hindoo, sire of Hanover, still stands as the biggest money-winning horse to figure as a Kentucky Derby winner. Ben Brush is second and Agile is third. There are others in the Derby roll of honor that would not have a place iu the list of ,000 turf winners had they not captured this race. These embrace Fonso, His Eminence, Iink Star. Stone Street and Wintergrecn. No less than sixteen winners of the Kentucky Derby have won more than 0,000 on the turf, which illustrates that, in many cases, it has been no ordinary three-year-old that lias crossed the winning line In this the greatest of all turf events in Kentucky. Leonatus is the only Kentucky Derby winner which was unbeaten as a three-year-old. That horse lost but one race, and that was when he was a kindcr-g:irtenx performer. The Kentucky Derby winners which have become the greatest sires are Fonso, Hindoo, Leonatus. Buchanan. Riley. Halma, Ben Brush. Plaudit and AHan-a-Dale. Halma was the only Kentucky Derby winner to sire another winner of the race, he getting AIIan-a-Dale, which won in 1002. Halma won it in 1S95. The table of Derby winners with their racing records follows: Year. Winner. Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Won. 1S75 Aristides 21 J 5 1 S,550 1S70 Vagrant S7 20 12 is i:;,si:: 1ST" Baden Baden 10 4 :; 2 9,000 1S7S Day Star 42 11 7 5 11.3S0 1ST! Lord Murphy 14 0 5 .. 11,400 isso Fonso i :: 1 1 0,700 1SS1 Hindoo 35 .10 3 2 71,875 1S2 Appollo 25 9 0 4 14.500 1553 Leonatus U 10 1 .. 21.4:55 1554 Buchanan 35 S 14 9 i::,110 1555 Joe Cotton 52 17 5 7 30.S45 1SS0 Ben All 10 "" 1 20,745 1SS7 Montrose 32 12 7 0 1S.570 1S8S McBeth II 105 20 IS 1.. -22.275 1SS0 Spokane 1" 5 4 2 27.290 isoo iiiiey 05 30 17 5 42,715 IS91 Kingman 2S 10 4 9 19,280 1S!2 Azra 2.! 5 3 7 21.000 M iso:: Lookout oo 17 13 r, 17.515 W 1S94 Chant 0--. 22 14 7 18,000 1S95 Halma 19 s :: :: i5,si." 1S90 Ben Brush 40 25 5 5 C5.217 IS97 Tvphoon II 41 IS 12 3 23,325 1S9S Plaudit 20 S 5 .. 33.770 1S99 Manuel 21 4 4 5 9,710 1900 Lieutenant Gibson.. 24 10 5 3 23,210 1001 His Eminence 24 5 4 0 7,090 1902 AIIan-a-Dale 37 17 0 2 24.S25 1903 Judge llimes 70 10 21 10 22.S05 10O Hlwood 42 0. K 12 17.950 1005 Agile 70 15 2 10 49.059 190G Sir Huon 22 .- S" 0 3 32,180 Year. Winner. Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Won. 1!RI7 Pink Star IS 4 3 2 $ C.1S0 1 90S Stone Street . 55 7,. 12 0 7.0S5 1909 Wintergrecn TV. V.2Z97?Sr,toand 1010 Donau . .. 55 20 8 15 14,810 After careful consideration and the fact that Kound the World had no stake engagements at the Kentucky Association meeting, W. G. Yanke. trainer of the great filly, finally concluded not to take her to Lexington to race before she started in the Derby. He figures that she is thoroughly seasoned and that all that is necessary now is to keep her in her present condition. Horsemen, had hoped that he would give her a final trial before she is sent to the post in the Derby, believing that she would run a faster mile and a quarter than any other horse ever has at the Downs. As good a trainer as II. R. Brandt says, however, this is unnecessary. He advises that a mile in about 1:45 and then in a day or two another mile in 1:421 or 1:43, on the eve of the race, is the thing for her. Then, he believes, on May 13, Round the World will do that which no other filly has ever done win the Derby. Some critics incline to the opinion that the lilly is too light in Ilesli. Those who saw her race in Mexico take no stock in this objection, as the daughter of Lackford raced there at her best when uot looking so robust as she looks now. Round the World probably has more speed tluin any three-year-old that has ever faced the barrier in the Derby. Even her detractors admit this. They only question her ability to go one mile and a quarter. Those who saw her win the Juarez Derby at a mile and an eighth do not doubt that she can travel the route. She is from a family of stout horses, many of which lacked her dazzling speed, hut were good longdistance performers. Col. M. J. Winn, who returned this week from a trip to 1 lie Pacific coast and British Columbia following the terniation of the 110-days race meeting at Juarez, is gratified over the prospect for a magnificent Derby and a glprious season of racing here. Last fall he planned many improvements at the Downs. Upon his return he found everything complete and he expressed great satisfaction with the work performed. On Thursday twenty-one new pari-nintuel machines were tested and they worked perfectly. Churchill Downs patrons will not know the course. Colonel Winn says, .by reason of 4he many innovations and added conveniences.
