Heres Strong "Hunch" For Derby: W. S. Kilmer Buys Frogtown for Big Race--Will He Prove Another Exterminator?, Daily Racing Form, 1919-05-08

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HERES STRONG HUNCH FOR DERBY W S Kilmer Buys Frogtown for Big Eacc Will He Prove Another Exterminator LEXINGTON Ky May 7 Acting for Willis Sharpe Kilmer trainer Henry McDaniel this morning purchased the threeyearold Frogtown by Magneto Beth Miller from J C Milam and the colt will be Kilmers representative in the Kenucky Derby next Saturday The price paid wa not made public but is said to be in five figures Some are inclined to find in the purchase a possible repetition of his ¬ tory as to the Derby outcome for it was about this time last year when Kilmer bought Exterminator from Milain when Sun Briar began taking his Derby prep in bad style and Exterminator was left to be the Kilmer representative in the Derby Frog town has worked some fast trials recently and it would not surprise many who have viewed his preliminaries iE he duplicated Exterminators suc


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