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AMERICAN DERBY WINNERS , Four Noble Horses Which Won Chicagos Glorious Turf Event. All Are Buried in Feelingly Marked Graves at Santa Anita Ranch. T,OS ANGELES, Cal., November S. Famous in llto, the race horses ol the late "Lucky" Baldwin are not to be forgotten in death. Their memory is to be kept as green as the grass on the infields which they circled. Out at the Santa Anita Ranch Mrs. Anita M. Ituldwin, daughter of the noted horseman, who is herself a horsewoman, is doing something which is unique in the annals of livestock history. Over a little mound in a clump of eucalyptus trees in front of the stallion paddocks she is erecting a monument to four American Derby winners, the last one of which was buried there only a few days ago. The Derby winners in question are Volante, Silver Cloud, Emperor of Norfolk and Key el Santa Anita. Once around the track at Washington Park in Chicago these four thoroughbreds won for their owner over 0,000 in American Derby prizes alone. In their day they are said to have captured stakes and. purses totaling more than 00,000. Rey el Santa Anita alone won nearly 0,000.. Santa. Anita Ranch enjoys the unique distinction of being "the only farm in the world to produce more than one .American Derby winner. It turned out four in rapid succession, and Miss Ford took second place behind C. II. Todd in 1887. The accomplishments of this speedy quintet from one establishment stands unequaled in the annals of the turf. The American Derby at Chicago was for seventeen yearsthe greatest turf event in America. Volante won it in 18S5 on a heavy track in 2:49, taking 1919.sh,570 in prize money. Silver Cloud captured it the following year in 2:37V. and brought home ,160 in stakes. Emperor of Norfolk carried the Baldwin racing colors to victory two years later by circling the 1 same track in 2:-10M- The prize was 4,340. This horse was the only one that ever finished first in the American Derby and followed it up by taking : the Sheridan and Drexel Stakes. All three events 1 were for three-year-olds. BALDWINS FOURTH AMERICAN DERBY. Key el Santa Anita in the season of 1894 added the fourth American Derby to "Lucky" Baldwins credit. He won the big race in 2:35 and equaled the tlien Derby record of Boundless, made in the : Worlds . Fair 1919.sh0,000 race, the year before. The ; stakes amounted to 9,750. Jn .addition to winning the American Derby, Rey cl Santa Anita won the Broadway Stakes at New r York ill 1C05, and won some of the biggest sums i offered on American race tracks. At one time his owner is said to have leen offered S0,000 for a i half interest in him. Itey el Santa Anitas last t public appearance was in 1915, when at the urgent t request of exposition officials he was taken to San Francisco, where he won first prize in his s class and was judged senior champion and grand champion thoroughbred stallion at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, despite the fact t that he was then twenty-four years old. Key cl Santa Anita died July 3 last. Santa Anita folks made his grave beside those of his. three great t predecessors, and in his tomb they placed his bridle ! nntf liultcr, his .silver-mounted saddle, his blankets, his jockeys riding colors and the many trophies he won on race tracks at home and abroad. Over the graves of four of the best horses that ever raced in their days in this country Mrs. Baldwin is rearing a lasting monument in the form of u eouerete Maltese cross six feet square. The : Maltese cress was the racing emblem of "Lucky" Budwin, and it hangs over the doorways of the paddocks at Santa Anita Ranch to this day. This gigantic cross will be finished in red, with , black crosslines. At the base of the cross the . names of the four famous American Derby winners j and their records will be lettered upon bronze tab-luts . a fitting memorial to four great thoroughbreds. .
