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I WINNERS OF THE SEVEN DERBYS RUN IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA THIS YEAR + + When Star Shooter strode over the winning line, victor in the Nevada Derby at Bean last Saturday. tile last American race of this year vested with the name Derby was run. In all. seven such races have he, n decided and of them all only the Latonla Derby is run at the correct Derby distance. The tirst of the seven to he decided waa the long-established Ktntuckj Derby, which for the tirst time was won by a lilly. ; ml a lilly of high degree, indeed. IMty it is that one Could not have reaped the addled glory of having won it over tlie traditional Derby course of a mile and a half. There never was any -eusihle reason for the debasement wrought to that race, when its distance was cut down to a mile and a quarter, or. for that mailer, for the mole recent Shortening of the Brooklyn Derby to the aboard distance of a mile and an eighth. The abort Righted racing otticials who do such things thereby declare thai our hor.- s of today are deficient in stamina, as compared with those of a decade or so ago, a conclusion that has no Justification, in facts developed in racing. Who can doubt that Regret would have stayed a mile and a half in tin Kentucky Derby as easily as did its twenty-one winners at that distance, or as Roval II. did in the Latonia Derby 1 Of tl.e Derby winners of this year Regret, Royal II.. The Finn and Waterbtossom are all capital race horses and the now dead Norse King waa gifted .itli more than ordinary speed. There is not so match t , he said for Star Shooter and Stolen Ante, but the Dcrbya tiny won were in accordance with their class as racers. The table below gives the nanus of the Derby winners, owners, jockeys, other placid horses, values and times, as follows: Derby. Din. first. Wt. Owner. Jockey. Second. Wt. Third. Wt. Value. Time. Ktucky 1 1-T Regret 112 L. S. Thompson.!. Notter Pebbles. 117 Sharpshooter ..114 111,450 2:05j l.atoni;i .1 1-2 Royal II. ..122 J. Livingston.. C. Garni Tetaa.122 Dortcfa 122 10,123 2:32 Ham ton 1 14 The Finn ..12." 11. c. HalheckU. Byrne Rancher. 115 Commonada ..12." 3,030 2:054 Cnadlan 1 1-4 WtertoTaom 114 T. . MDwellE. Martin The Finn. 122 Royal II 125 2.t.2o 2:184 Itrkhn .1 1-8 Norse King.. Ill T. It. Lemalre.Jf. Ba tweU... Sharps ter. 118 Sam McMeekralll 2,27- i ■:,%" Colrilo 1 l-lf. Stolen Ante. 117 A. 6. l»unlap..K. Feeney Mda.107 Star Shooter ..114 1.345 1:48] Nevada .11-S Star Shooter.114 NeT. Stk. Tm.J. T. l.iirns. .Stol. Ante. 127 Oano 117 1,340 1:543
