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SILVERDALE A DARK HORSE* May Be Dangerous in the Ohio Derby — Record of Six Consecutive Victories. Continued successes of E. B. McLeans colt Silverdale, a son of The Porter— Margaret Ogden, have finally won for the colt enougk respect to count him as a stake possibility and a dark horse in the Ohio State Derby. Silverdale last week won his sixth consecutive race on Kentucky tracks, but on Monday he was beaten in a close finish by tlie older Royal Julian. Silverdalcs winning record to date is very similar to that of Ervast, the western sensation, which, after sustaining defeat by a closa margin in his first start, von a like number of races before finally meeting defeat again in the Tijuana Derby. Ervast, like Silver-dale, started only in sprint races while in bia winning glory and met with the same embarrassment the first time he was asked to go more than a mile. Silverdale did not show anything of a startling nature as a two-year-old. but it appeared that he was just beginning to give an inkling of his quality when his first season of racing came to an end. In the last race he ran as a two-year-old he was considered good enough to be backed into favoritism over Double Heart, Nora D., Little Cyp and others. This was at Lincoln Fields and he finished third to Double Heart and Nora D. Permitted to grow and develop in the nearly nine months that he was out of competition, he came back to the races a little more than a month ago at Pimlico and was beaten by a nose in a three-quarters of a mile race by Water Lad. Then followed his winning streak of six in a row.
