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I | , j . J | i I | a s i | | HARD TO GET GREAT WINNER . i Lord Rosebery Accomplished His Aim, but _ Kennedy Jones Failed Badly. Racial newcomers in all corners seem to possess the idea that it is easy to select a winning thor- j Highbred horse. As a matter of fact it is harder g to get hold of | Man o War. a Morvich or an J Epsom Derby winner than to amass a fortune in - business. l»rd Bjeseheey in England is credited J with the saying that he would sit in the House of «i Lords, be Prime Minister and win the Derby, j Wonderful to write he accomplished all three aims. fi His Epsom Derby winners were Lnlas 1894. Sir j Yisto MBS and Cicero MBS. But his was the fi other side of the racing task. Mr. Kennedy fi Jones, and English mercantile magnate, gathered j: huge fortune in commercial lines before he died , some months ago. When in health he expressed 4 the opinion that "ai.y man could win the Epsom fi Derby if he went to work the proper way." In j support of his contention he spent a lot of money on tiloodstock. bat, so far from winning the Derby, not one of his horses was successful in any race of s importance. Of those raced by him during the past year the best was the two-year -old Flaming J Orb, which was third to Golden Coin and Polyhislor in the Middle Park Plate. 1
