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ATTENDANCE OF 100,000 ♦ Washington Park Management Expects Largest Crowd of Year to See American Derby —All Best Three-Year-Olds Among Prospective Starters • Romance and glamor have enshrined the American as it has the Kentucky Derby. "Winners of two these turf classics of the Middle West have dashed to victory amid spectacular surroundings; they have marched to enduring fame in a number of cases greatly enhanced by successful careers in the stud. In the years of the running of these events the interest created by them has surpassed that attaching to any other events of the turf in this country irrespective of value or the scene of action. These Derbys reflect a peculiar sentiment, absent in all other struggles for supremacy between thoroughbred aristocrats. Old Washington Park, like Churchill Downs, enjoyed a distinction all its own. The new Washington Park, planned by its president. Col. M. J. Winn, who made Churchill Downs and, in the making, actually saved the Kentucky Derby, converting it into the premier classic of this country, is to offer on Saturday, June 15, all of the thrills of a Kentucky Derby. The prospective field for the American Derby sparkles in quality, including as it does the acknowledged stars of the three-year-old division. Such as Blue Larkspur, Clyde Van Dusen, Jack High, Karl Eitel, Naishapur, Dr. Freeland are among the almost certain starters. At the present time It appears that the field will come from the following : Horse. Jockey. Clyde Van Dusen C. Metrosson Blue Larkspur M. Garner Jack Hish L. McAtee Karl Eitel R. Jones Jean Valjean L. Pichon African K. Leonard Naishapur C. E. Allen Essare F.- Stevens Minotaur R. De Prema Beacon Hill R. Workman Bargello A. Robertson Leucite L. Fa tor Chip E. Shropshire Plumbago L. McDermott Current E. Pool Panchio F. Coltilettl Curate W. Garner The Choctaw H. Philpot Soul of Honor G. Fields Lord Braedalbane J. Heupel "Windy City L. n.irdy Boris K. Russell Hermitage Earl H. Sande Silverdale A. Paseuma Voltear E. Legere Dr. Freeland L. Schafer MeGonigle C Meyer Colonel Winn has announced that the occasion is to be one of Chicagos most remarkable holidays. It will be, in fact, he said, something like the Epsom Downs Derby in England. He is devising plans along this line. It is his belief that the American Derby will be the greatest of the year in performance and interest. If close to 100,000 people witness the spectacle he will not be surprisd, he said. Since Decoration Day, when 40,000 visited the course, he has been engaged in providing facilities to take care of more than 100,000 people. North of the grandstand he is placing seats and benches to accommodate hundreds. On Derby Day there will be forty mutuel machines in that section. "Chicagos newest race track," said Colonel Winn, "can take care of the biggest turf assemblage the West has known. We shall prove it June 15. All that is desired is a fair day. I am confident Chicago is to become the capital of the American turf because I believe this city is to become the greatest in the world."
