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KENTUCKY TO HAVE ITS RICHEST DERBY THIS YEAR I i Louisville, Ky., February 7. The Kentucky Derby of P.H4 will be the richest race in the forty years history of this Inqiortaiit event. Secretary Lymau 11. Davis has just announced the conditions of the coining Derby and for the first time in the history of the race 0,000 in added money is to he given by the New Louisville Jockey Club. This, with the subscriptions and starting money, will make the. race a .0,000 event this season. The greatest amount ever before added to the race was in 11115, when i?,",000 was given. Previously the event was a guaranteed stake of .1914.sh,010, of which the winners share was ,,S."0. The richest Kentucky Derby ever run up to last year was in 1NU0, when Riley won the event, which was wortli .,400 net. This season the added money alone will he in excess of the amount that Riley won twenty-four years ago. The first Kentucky l.Vrby, in 1.S75. won by Aristides, was worth only and it was not until Aifollos year in 1SS2 that the event attained a value of .:l,r00. Last year, with ,000 added, the Derby was worth .,173 net lo the winner. Doiierail. Of the .0,000 added to the big race this season, the winners share is to he ,000. while the second will get ..0u!. the third ,000. and the fourth horse will save its fees. The Kentucky Derby of this tcason will be the richest Derby in the United States since the passing of the American Derby at Washington Park. Chicago, and the St. Louis Derby, which were last run in 1001 and 1JI03, respectively. It Js contemplated that the race this year, which closes for entries March U. will have listed in its entri.-s !1k greatest three -year-old aggregation in its forty years of history. Manager M. J. Winn and President Charles F. Grainger of the New Louisville Jockey Club have both had assurance from -rouiincut eastern turfmen that they will enter liberally in the stakes of this track the coming spring and with such a valuable ollering it is safe to say that the best three-year-olds in the land will be named by their owners for the Kentucky Derby this year. Prominent anions the certain entries are Old Rosebud, the accepted champion American two-year-old of FJKJ; Pennant, the Futurity winner: Little Nephew, the only horro to beat Old Rosebud: I lodge, which won more races than any other two-year-old last season: Ralph, unbeaten on the Kentucky tracks last fall, ami for which .0i0 was refused: P.ringhurst, holder of the Kentucky record of 1 :04; for live and a half furlongs: iiupor.itor. the P.reeders Futurity wi;i-ner: Milton Kohloe and I.Ob llenslcy. useful thiv-v car-olds at Juarez this winter: Klack Toney and Kradlevs Choice, two of the cracks or L. 11. Brail-leys stable, and such oilier likely three-year-olds as Roainer. Surprising. Superintendent. Salon, Korf-hage. Old Ken, Sasius. Anytime, John Guild, Beach Comber which sold for 4,000 at auction as a yearling I. Magnet. Pebico. Waterbass and P.elloc. From those named above there can be secured a most remarkable field for Hk Derby this year. In fact, it is the greatest array of eligibles in any three-year oid event run in America recently. The distance for the Kentucky Derby this year will be. as usual, one mile and a quarter, with the subscriptions each and SHOO additional to start. The usual three-year-old weights will prevail this season. 1 pounds on colts, 11! on geldings and 1 17 on lillies. Non-winners of a three-year-old race of the value of ,300 will be allowed 5 pounds and maidens 1- pounds. Six other stakes will be offered by the New Louisville Jockey Club for the 1014 spring meeting, with the added money totaling 0,000. All will close for entries on the same date as the Kentucky Derby, March 2. They are: Kentucky Oaks 40th running, for three-year-old lillies. one mile and a sixteenth, ,000 added. Clark Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, one mile and a sixteenth. ,000 added. Frank Felir Stakes, for three-year-olds and upward, selling, one mile, ,000 added. P.asliford .Manor Stakes, for two-year-old colts and geldings, four and one-half furlongs. ,000 added. Debutante Stakes, for two-year-old fillies, one-half mile, ,000 added. Juvenile Stakes, for two-year-olds, selling, live-eighths mile, ,000 added. As last season, there will be no purse of less than in added money at the Downs the coming spring and there will be special purses and overnight handicaps ranging from 00 to ,000 in added money. The dates for the spring meetings in Kentucky this year have not as yet been apnoimced by the Kentucky State Racing Commission, but will doubtless be promulgated at an early date by that governing body. Manager Winn will ask for thirteen days racing at the Downs this spring, which js the same number as last season. It is anticipated that the. Kentucky racing season of 1014 will be a record breaker and the attractive program offered t.y the parent association of the big tracks in this state goes to prove the confidence Manager Winn and his associates in the New Louisville Jockey Club have in the racing outlook at the present time. In offering the rich program for thirteen days racing above Loted. the management also shows an appreciation of the support always accorded to Churchill Downs by the horsemen, which was illustrated on a previous occasion, when twice during one meeting, without solicitation, .Manager Winn ordered the purses raised, a condition practically without precedent in the annals of the sport in this country. He and his associates in the control of Churchill Downs have been ever willing to share the protits of the great plant with the horsemen, who furnish the horses to race. There has seldom been a Derby race which has aroused more general ink-rest than the big event will furnish this year. The two-year-olds of 191:5 wore of high quality and many, stars developed dur-Ihg tl season. There is much speculation as to how Old Rosebud. Little Nephew and Ralph, the three Kentucky favorites among the youngsters last season, will turn out as Derby possibilities this year. Bradleys Choice. Pennant. Hodge. P.ringhurst and Ini-perator also have many friends among good judges at quality. It may be a horse now lightly considered that will win the race, however, as Donerail did last season, paving his hackers the odds of !1 to 1. Two things are sure. The Kentucky Derby of 1014 will, as usual, class with the greatest turf events of the season In America, and Churchill Downs is certain to be the scene of a brilliant meeting in May. with racing of as high class as ever has been seen in the west.
