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DERBY WINNER AT A LONG PRICE. The Argentine Derby was run recently at the Palermo track, Buenos Ayres, and no more sensational win has ever been recorded for a big racing event in any country in the world. The race was worth 0,000 aud it was won by tho rankest sort of an outsider a colt named Volador. He was absolutely friendless as the horses were stripped for the race and the long price of 125 to 1 could be easily secured against him. A week or so previous the colt performed wretchedly in a. minor event and in mediocre company, so that In the big race hardly a dollar was risked upon him. The distance of the race is one and a quarter miles and it was only in tho last 100 yards or so that Volador was noticed, when he came with a rush and won by a neck from a colt named Sixpence. Volador is by the French sire Val dOr, and his granddam is an own sister to the granddam of Minora, the Epsom Derby hero of 1909, which earned his last clnssic bracket for the late King Edward. Volador was bred by Senor S. J. Unzuc, the well-known South American breeder. The third animal in the race was a filly named Aldeana, and she is by Kendal, a half-brother to Ormond, whose home is now in South America. The time of the race was 2:03.
