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SAW BLINK BONNY WIN THE DERBY. Not many men are now about who saw Blink i F.oimys Derby in 1*57, but that fine old sportsman, . Peter Ryan, the registrar for Toronto East, is one. and he retains a vivid recollection of the ,. terrific finish in which the IAnson marc got home c a nose in front of the despised Black Tommy and X twenty -eight other runners. Intil the numbers s went up it was impossible for any but the judge I to say which had won. Nor was the keenness of f the battle confined to the leading pair, for Adamas s was beaten only a short head for second place, - and Strathnever a neck awa . In fact, the margin separating the winner from the seventh horse e to pass the judges box was only about a length I and a half. A number of remarkable wagers were o KCM I -d in connection with Black Tommy, for, •, though the public regarded the colt as a negligible e quantity, the owner held other views. Among g other l.ets were 10.000 to 20 and 10.000 to 150: i; but the most weird of the lot was one of 20,000 0 pounds to a coat, waistcoat and hat. The event t is recalled by the announcement of the death of the old-time jockey. James Covey, who rode Hlack k Tummy. He had reached the age of eighty-four. -. Dlink Bonny was the MCMJC filly to win the Derby, r, which has fallen to one of h. r sex only five times •s since Dioincil won the firsi race in 17S0. . Eleanor in lsol was the first, and Tagalie, in 1912. I. ; the last. Hliuk F.onn.v also won the Oaks, and d is famous in turf history through her performances ■s and her progeny. And oblivion has fallen on the e name of Black Tommy, though she was but the merest fraction of distance better than him in the greatest of races. So much is the difference in position, even if the distance be infinitesimal. — Francis Nelson iu Toronto Globe.
