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. 4 CONCERNING- THE REVIVAL OF A GREAT RACE FOR THE STAR THREE-YEAR-OLDS 4 The last racing over a Chicago track took place at Worth, Monday, October 31, 1904. Quite a long time ago that. Today the long interregnum ends. King Horse comes back to play his pleasing part in displays of his matchless speed over the Hawthorne race track. Moreover, Chicago is to have an American Derby again. It will not be the American Derby of glorious memories and associations, because unlike the famous Washington Dark race, it will not be run at the correct Derby Distance of a mile and a half. However, that does not matter much now. The big thing is that the Derby is to be run. It will not lie contested by the big field that was hoped for, but it will be a real horse race for all that. Every colt going to the post is a good one. With a big field starting, the spectators have only a fleeting impression of a mass of swiftly moving horses and riders without being able to separate them visually. A small field of good and well-matched horses furnishes a more satisfactory spectacle, for the reason that details of the action of horses and jockeys can be scanned from start to finish. Such will be the case today in the running of the Derby and it should afford highly exciting entertainment. The American Derby at Washington Dark in its later years was the most important and valuable race of America for three-year-olds. Annually it drew a greater assemblage of spectators to view its decision lain did any other race run in the United States. In a racing way it was a big thing, and Chicago rises in a big way to the call of a big thing. It did then and, with an equal attraction provided, it will again. The present revival of the name and race is experimental. If it turns out to be successful there is no reason why, in the years to come, Hawthornes American Derby should not grow into air even greater standard of importance than formerly attached to Washington Darks American Derby. Particulars .of the decisions of the big race at Washington Park are given in the following interesting table: Year. First. Jockeys. Wt. Second. Wt. Third. Wt. Val. Time. 1554 Modesty Murphy.. 11" Kosciusko 117 Dob Cook 115 0,70; 2:42vi 1555 Volante Murphy. .123 Favor 123 Troubadour ...123 9,570 2:491. 1SS0 Silver Cloud Murphy.. 121 P.lue Wing 121 Sir Joseph 118 S.100 ,2:37l 1SS7 C. II. Todd Hamilton.. US Miss Ford 113 Wary 110 13,090 2:3C.. 1SSS Emperor of Norfolk . .Murphy. .123 Falcon 121 Los Angeles 110 11,310 2:-UVj 1SS9 Spokane Kiley.,121 Sorrento 118 Retrieve . 110 15,110 2:41i 1890 rude Dob Kiley..ll5J Santiago 118 lien Kingsbury.1031 15,200 2:55:, 1891 Stratlnneath Covington. .112 Poet Scout 115 Kingman 129 18,010 2:49, 1892 Carlsbad 11 Williams. .122 Zaldivar 122 Cicero 115 10.930 3:01t 1893 P.oundless Garrison. .122 St. Leonards 122 Clifford 122 49,500 2:31! 1891 Hey cl Santa Anita Van Kureii.,122 Senator Grady 122 Despot 122 19;750 2:30 1898 Pink Coat W. Martin.. 127 Wnrrenton 122 Isabey 122 9,225 2:42", 1900 Sidney Lucas Pullman. .122 James 122 Lieut. Gibson.. 129 9,125 2:10i 1901 Robert Waddell Pullman. .119 Terminus 127 The Parader. . .122 19,275 2:33 1902 Wyeth Lyne..122 Lucien Appleby 122 Aladdin 122 19,875 2:10 1903 The Picket Ilclgesen. .115 Claude ....127 Pornays 122 27,025 2:33 1901 Highball Fuller. .122 Woodson 122 Rapid Water. ..122 20,325 2:33 1895, 1S90, 1897, 1899, 1905 and 1900, no racing. Club disbanded and track dismantled in 1901.
