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INTEREST IN DERBY GROWS HORSE WORLD LOOKING FORWARD TO BIG EVENT AT CHURCHILL DOWNS Many Important Stables Already Booked for New NewLouisville Louisville Jockey Clubs Meeting in May Derby Entries Soon to Be Announced Louisville Ky March C Alreadr many stables have applied tor quarters at the New Louisville Jockey Clubs course during the twelveday spring meeting at Churchill Downs which will open this season on Saturday May S on which day the Ken ¬ tucky Derby 10000 added will bo run There is keener interest in the rich classic this year than ever before in its history of forty years and its list of entries which closed last Monday showed a re ¬ markable array of threey earolds including practi ¬ cally all ot the twoyearold stars developed bv the racing of 1014 Of course there have been times when the star twoyearolds of one season were bv no means the cracks of the Derby racing of the following year Some colts and fillies develop much earlier than others and frequently threeyearolds have displayed sensational form at that age which were most ordinary youngsters the year previous A ease in point was E J Baldwins Key el Santa Anita which in winning the American Derby of 1804 defeated such remarkable champion twoyear olds of the season previous as Domino and Senator Orady The latter had only been beaten once as a youngster while the Kcene crack had quit the turf as a twoyearold with au unbeaten record It recordIt is this uncertainty of racing that has made the Kentucky Derby one of the most spectacular races of the American turf of today Its annals arc strewn with instances showing the niicertaintv of great races in which great horses met The mistake of a rider has often turned the tide of what seems almost certain victory for a colt into decisive de ¬ feat Had Pike Barnes kept Proctor Knott straight in the Kentucky Derby of 1SSO ho would have had l lcyond cyond a doubt won the event that season instead of being nosed out by Spokane Twice dur ¬ ing the race Barnes lost control of the big chestnut geldlug and even with that disadvantage the first Futurity winner was defeated only by an Inch or two Sam Bryant went to his grave believing that tho placing judge had made a mistake and that Proctor Knott won the Derby so close was the finish that afternoon afternoonCapt Capt J T Williams always thought that but for a heavy track he would have won the Kentticky Jlerby with Kams Horn in Agiles year and the poor tiding of Koscoe Troxler caused Governor Gray to he beaten in the big race by Meridian in 1011 There are many who hark back to the long ago and remember when the mighty Falsetto was beaten by Lord Murphy in the big race of 1870 That was the only defeat that ever came to the great sou of Enquirer A mouth later and Lord Murphy would have had no chance in a race with Falsetto over the Derby route Kecalling the history of the K u tucky Derby for many years back it is doubtful if any greater horse ever was defeated in that race than Falsetto His victories later on over the great Spendthrift in the Travurs and Kenner Stakes estab ¬ lished his wonderful ability and when he went to tin stud he filled America with his fame Few horses were more successful in the stud than Fal ¬ setto It Is odd that in this respect his name is so strongly linked with the big race which marked his only defeat on the turf Chant His Eminence and Sir IIuou all Kentucky Derbv winners are bv Fal ¬ setto and he sired George J Longs lastnamed great hoi e when he was twentysix years old Falsetto was bred and raced in the Derby by J W Hunt Keynolds a Kentucky turfman whose breeding stud was located near Frankfort and known as Fleet wood Farm He was a gentleman of tho old school having inherited a large fortune and he invested heavily In thoroughbreds breeding horses only for racing purposes in his own colors In fact h would never have sold his great horse to Pierre Lorillnrd for even 18000 which was the price the master of Kaneocas paid for him had he not been in ill health at that time He did not live long after the mighty horse had made Fleetwood Farm so famous but though now long since dead his place is secure for all time In history as the re markiible performer which carried Ids colors has gone down in the annals of racing as one of Ameri ¬ cas greatest race horses of all time Falsetto really introduced to the turf jiic of the greatest riders of any age in the famous Isaac Murphy known as the black Archer He rode the noted performer In all his races and always said that of all the horses he ever rode Salvator was his only equal He was on Salvator when that horse ran his mile in 1 5 which is still the American record for the distance Murphy though beaten on Falsetto lu tho Derby won the Kentucky classic more times than any other rider that ever had a mount in the race lie first wea It on Buchanan five years after ho rode Falsetto and he also won it u Kilev in 180 and with Kingman the following season This famous rider even made a greater record In the American Derby for he won the big Chicago race four times on Modesty Volnnte Silver Cloud and Emperor of Norfolk Many of the owners of elig Ibles for this seasons Derby would doubtless like to have a rider like Murphy was at his best ou their cracks in tho hig race at the Downs the coming spring but at that there will be an abund ¬ ance of capable riders available for the coming stake Jockeys J Kederis T Kice J Loflus A Mott C Borel K Goose J McCahe K Martin I Connelly ami A Neylou are among those who have either been engaged already for the race or expect to be shortly shortlyEugene Eugene Elrod Is making arrangements for the usual srcdal train to carry the horses from the Jua ¬ rez track to the Churchill Downs course as soon as thi winter meeting is over at the Mexican track He writes that the train will leave El Paso ou thu noon following the closing day of the meeting at Juarez the date of the closing there coming this year on Sunday April 4 This will bring the special into this city not later than Thursday April S SSecretary Secretary II C Applegate is busy classifying the entries for the various stakes to bo run at the Downs this spring aside from the Kentucky Derby These events have all tilled well and embrace the Kentucky Oaks the Clark Handicap the Frank Fchr Bashford Manor Debutant and Jnvenib Stakes It will not be long now before Manager M J Winn will also be ri the scene and in another week or two tho Down will be once again all bustle and activity with all the world talking Derby and ineisuring the class of the great stars which Avlll contest for the rich prize this spring
