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ECHOES OF EPSOM DERBY Great Crowd of 300000 Peopfe Sought to See the Race How Spion Kop Won Real Facts About His Beaten Trial Donoghues Mishap s BY E E COUSSELL LONDON England June 9 There were wonder ¬ ful scenes at the record Derby It is estimated there were more than 100000 people present at Epsom on Time 2 It is quite safe to assert tlinjt less than half that number saw little if any of the race To catch a glimpse of the Derby field teris of thousands had to take up positions on the Stands at least three Hours before tins Derby was timed to be run Descriptive writers without end have attempted to picture the scenes at what Is after all a great British national event Those who were in a position to view the rate saw a Derby run as it ought to be run From start to finish the horses were at full stretch That is the only way to obtain a true test The result was we had a record time timeOf Of course there has been a lot of discussion con ¬ cerning the Gilpin Derby trial in which SpipnICop finished behind Sarchedon and Paragon It has been revealed since that Comrade bumped the Derby winner in the trial It would seein that the real test was between Spion Kop and King John The latter was struck out of the Manchester Cup iini nnmliutVijy the DCrhy trial tcok place so the In ¬ ference is obvious Spion Kop is a goodlooking colt with great heart room and plenty of length powerful strong quar ¬ ters and good limbs nincli better than most Spear m5 its Archaic however is a better looking indi ¬ vidual than Spion Kop The latter is the fourth living foal of his dam and llammerkop was seven ¬ teen years old when she bred him Previously she had failed twice to Spearmint to which she also produced a dead foal Her other living foals were by Buckwheat and Lavcno She was a great stayer llammerkop is the first Cesarewitch hero ¬ ine to produce a Derby winner winnerOrpheus Orpheus the third in the Derby also comes of the same immediate family as Spion Kop His dam Electra which won tiie One Thousand Guineas wa sired by Eager Sirenia sister to llammerkop Sf renias best distance was one mile though she did win the Jubilee Stakes over an eighth farther Both llammerkop and Sirenia were sired by Gallinulc They were from Conclusion whosc dam Astwith was a halfsister to Moorhen the dam of Gallinnle GallinnleABBOTS ABBOTS TRACE AND DONOGHUE DONOGHUEThere There was little delay at the post in the Derby race Abbots Trace at once tore away at the head of the field followed by Sarchedon and Tetrateina and Poltava with Spion Kop about fiftli or sixth and Allenby close up At about seveneigjifhs Allcnby broke a blood vessel and was pulledaip Down the hill and round Tattenham Corner Abbots Trace kept his lead Tetrateina had tried to over ¬ haul him but the hill had beaten the favorite Pol ¬ tavas great speed down hill carried him into second place behind the leader Soon after entering the straight Spion Kop led the field Archaic which came along at a great pace hereabouts became sec ¬ ond with Sarchedon and Orpheus in attendance Abbots Trace on the rails a hundred yards from the post came down as though his heart were broken rolled over his rider and lay perfectly still A shudder of apprehension swept the spectators whose attention was thus divided At this stage it looked as though Archaiac with his tremendous stride might catch Spion Kop but the latter had too mucU in reserve and passed the post a clever winner by u couple of lengths in record time Orpheus a length and a half away was third with Sarchedon fourth followed by Daylight Patrol and Poltava next in order The remainder of the field were lost in the desite to see what had happened to Donoghue He hail had a miraculous escape The accident was alleged to have been caused by Sarchedon No one on tllte press stand saw any bumping It looked as though Abbots Trace had raced himself to deatji with the great pace lie set and just collapsed Anyway lie brought out the qualities in the stayers in the Derby field and incidentlly beat the favorite at a mile It is clear Tetrateina possesses brilliant speed but no stamina Archaic the bcst looking horse in the race was easily second on his merits Poltavas position was a surprise and made it appear that Allenby might have won as he is so milch in front of the gray colt I gathered later that He Goes and Polumetis were sprawling down the hill which was just what we expected from their conformation
