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W and yfjW p DODGES GREAT CAREER Among the two-ycar-clds of 1915 Dodge was emphatically the champion mud-runner. It dots not follow that he could not run fast on a dry track. His first three races were over fast tracks and he wen them all in excellent time. But nature has gifted him in superlative measure with that way of action which enables a horcc to gallop at cate in heavy going, where others not so favored dip and sprawl into exhaustion. It is not in the least discrediting this gcod colt to tay that, in all probability, George Smith would have given him weight and a beating in the Latonia Derby had th; track been at its best for racing wh-n that event was decided. Last year Dadgc gallantly earned a place in the foremost rank of the years two ycar-dis. Starting in seventeen races, he wen ten, was secend in four and third in cue. In mency wen he shared with Dominant, Thunderer and George Smith the distinction cf being one of the two-yecr-clds in the list of earners of S 10,000 or more. This year, in five races, he has won three, his crowning feat being his easy defeat of George Smith, Dick Williams and four more aspirants to Derby honors in the thirty-fourth running cf the Latonia Derby, June 17. He belongs to a liable that is singularly well equipped, in being in possession of two first-division celts. His stablcniatc, Franklin, is supposed to be his superior in speed on a fast track. Both are American Derby candidates and both will probably be sent to the post. Franklin ran third to George Smith and Star Hawk in the Kentucky Derby, a half length before Dodge. As the track was fast that day, this finish did not point to any great difference in . their respective ability to race well and stay well over a fast track at a high rate of. .speed. Both ran in better than 2:05. ; DODGE, WINNER OF THE LATONIA DERBY, JUNE 17, 1916. , ; . .1. A
