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| i i i DERBY VALUE IS ENRiCHED e- 1 I Gold Plate of ,000 Added to Race by Kentucky Jockey Club. ♦ 1 With Dozen or More Starters, This Years Winner Will Receive Over 5,000. ♦ LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 1G— The Kentucky Jockey Club has arranged to make the Kentucky Derby more valuable than it was at first announced. Arrangements were perfected this week by Col. Matt J. Winn, vice-president and general manager, to have made a solid fourteen-karat gold six-piece buffet service, which will go to the owner of the winner. This will make the Derby the most valuable of all the 0,000 stakes of the year. The gold set is to cost ,000. Brainerd Lemon, a Louisville jeweler, spent several days in New York consulting with the Gor-ham Company and selecting designs. The lucky winner of this gold service will have something to be proud of. This service is one of the most important that has been given for any competition. It consists of a combination loving cup and center piece seventeen inches high, with hand-pierced mesh for flowers. This will set on a solid gold plate eleven inches in diameter. There are two candlesticks nine and one-half inches high and two compote or bonbon dishes. The service, which is in the rennaissance style, is embellished with fine hand engraving, with acenthus leaves and scrolls as the motive. It is also enriched by heavy honeysuckle and lambs tongue mounts characteristic of the period. This is the first time that a cup or piece of plate has ever been given away with the Derby, which has grown more in value from year to year until it has become one of the richest of American stakes. The Derby, to be run on May 13, will inaugurate the giving of the gold plate in addition to the money and it is announced that there will be similar gold plates given each year hereafter. It is figured that with a dozen starters, which there no doubt will be in the Derby, the winners share of the 0,-000 added event will amount to 8,300 ; adding ,000 in gold plate to this will make a winning of 5,300 for the horse finishing first in Kentuckys most famous race.
