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ONEILL AND NASSOVIANS DERBY Whes the "free handicap" of this year PITC Mi!viu!i Fields Goldos Corn fisi place among the two-year-olds of Baglaad it was the first time is -i-; years for a filly to ;. to the head of the list. Iii nlla Was given tt ill Pair, and she WOB the Derby and Oaks or ItlC As the 1M6 Derby wai run Mfiaella wss probably lucky to win. a brother jockey, who palled oil on a beaten horse, enabled Chillis to sqaeeae tliroogh in the nick of time to beat the Ameriesa- os I Nasaoviaa. ONeill, likely eaoagh, had vir- . aally to throw t;.it Derby away throagh circumstances wliiii denied him any aei]uain;aiiee with bis mount nri-r to being tossed into the saddle on the day Of the event. Spear had been riding the colt in his previous i.i and in much of his previous work and the psrt-iii : hip had got on well enough. But John Sanford, the owaer, finally decided to eagage ONeill, v.iio was on holiday in the States at the time, and that jockey virtually stepped off the boat on to tin-horses back. The colt had cost Mr. Sanford S17.000 as a year-tiag ii 11j14. .N.i-sovian was addicted to little peculiarities in his races and. to cut the story briefly, the jockey ■was as much handicapped la the rhrcaasstaacss as wsi Maker when he rode Llangwm in Signori-ncttas year. a
