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US i M dBS MRS. J. 1. HERTZ. GOLD TROPHY TO OWNER Governor of Kentucky Presents Beautiful Gold Cup to Mrs. John D. Hertz. LOUISVILLE. Ky.. May 19.— Hon. Flem D. Sampson, governor of Kentucky, presented the gold trophy to the owner of the Derby winner in the following eloquent address : "Friends, Kentuckims. Amrrrm0 r~ -•••-men all: allow. me to present to you Mrs. Hertz, the owner of the winner of u»i a»..-tucky Derby. "At this moment, around the world, is sounding the name of a horse — a Derby winner. ID has contend. d, he has achieved, he has made glorious history. His name shall be emblazoned eternally in the Hall of Fame among heroic horses and go down the rges as the proud winner of the Kentucky Dei by of 1928. The race was like a beautiful poem, an epic, picturesque in setting, in surroundings and execution. "Instituted as an annual event more than half a century ago, the Kentucky Derby is the classic sporting event of America. Today brings to both the conqueror and the concourse a new and more vivid thrill of triumph of victory and of pulsating delight than in any other pastime. There is and can be no sporting contest more colorful, more tense than the triumph of a thoroughbred horse in a well conducted race. Mans innate fondness for the horse, the animal next to humans, intensifies his interest and multiplies the subtleness cf the sporting delight which emanates from the sight of fervid contest. So has it been in this grand old commonwealth of song and story, of entrancing beauty and soul-stirring shrines of untold natural wealth and waiting opportunity, of tradition, romance, courage, sentimentality and love, sine* Aristides, the little red horse, was acclaimed king of thoroughbreds at the first Kentucky Derby in an ancient day. "To the owner we present the trophy, a beautiful gold cup, in testimony to the excellence of his skill and accuracy of his judgment. We salute the gallant rider of the winner as a true horseman, and felicitate the owner and trainer upon the marvelous results of their efforts to produce the best horse. "Amid the claims of the countless throng of lovers of clean and honorable sport, gained from every clan and clime, upon historic Churchill Downs, made sacred to turfdom by the flying feet of many renowned Derby contenders, we, in one voice, proclaim and declare — the stoutest of heart, the fleetest of foot, the champion of all horsedom and crown him with a garland of American beauty res. -a as the winner of the Kentucky Derby, the king of the American turf. "May horse racing, the sport of kings, crowned and uncrowned, ever remain fair and clean, and may the best horse always win." •
