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CAMERONIAN DERBY CHOICE Special Cablegram. LONDON, England, May 4. — Cameronian, winner of the Two Thousand Guineas last week for J. A. Dewar, is now the favorite for the Epsom Derby, which will be run June 3. His price today was 9 to 2. The French-bred Goyescas, owned by Marcel Boussac, is the second choice at 12 to 2. Jacopo, owned by the American sportsman, Marshall Field, which had ruled the Derby choice before the Two Thousand Guineas, from which he was withdrawn, is the equal third choice, with John Rutherfords Orpen at 100 to 6. Goyescas finished second in the Two Thousand Guineas, with Orpen third. It is persistently rumored that Jacopo is ill. the illness being diagnosed as red worm, a parasite which infests pastures.
