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KING PRIAMS PROMISING DEBUT Pirnmerns victory in the Two Thousand Guineas had the Immediate result of making him favorite foe the Epsom Derby jit the short price of 7 to 4 King Priam being second choice at 5 to 1 The latter fine colt started in the mile and a half Chippenham Plate on Guineas day and won easily from the fourrcarolds My Prince and Vanadium leading Sporting Life of the next day to say King Priam came r ut of his clothes yesterday a grand specimen of a weightcarrying threeyearold To have had any pretensions to classic honors he was entitled to have been an oddson chance for the Chtpenham Plate and to win readily into the bargain Much Interest was centered In the colts first outing cs a threeyear old and it can bo said that the son of Your Majesty has abnormal muscular development and there is no doubt that his heart is as big as Ills frame He is not of the tearaway sort but is something of a sing that will race with anything which may have deceived onlookers as to how lie yesterday won Wing had to shake him iii once and then if the colt slowed down on his own ac ¬ count it was because he had come to the coil clnsion that lie had done all that was required of him King Priam is in the Burwell Plate nt tile next Newinarket meeting therefore he caii be stripped again efore Derby day One tiling that his owner docs know about him is that he stays
