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GREAT DERBY WINNERS List of the Best Horses Which Won Americas Noted Race Cavalcades Name on Honor Roll of Outstanding Thoroughbreds Suc ¬ cessful in Blue Grass Classic When Cavalcade carried off the Kentucky Derby of 1934 the name of another great horse was added to the roster of winners of the now worlds famous Blue Grass clas sic Cavalcade was the outstanding horse of 1934 the largest money winner and the champion threeyearold He was beaten only once by his stablemate High Quest in the Preakness and besides the Kentucky Derby was victorious in the American and Detroit Derbys the Arlington Park Classic and the Chesapeake Stakes His total win ¬ nings for the year amounted to 111325 a sum that he might have greatly enlarged had he not gone wrong in July just when a tempting array of rich prizes were being offered for a meeting with him Equipoise and other stars Truly his marvelous record entitles him to join the illustrious winners of the Kentucky Derby whose names were Hindoo Leenatus Spokane Riley Halma Ben Brush Lieut Gibson Sir Huon Old Rosebud Regret Omar Khayyam Sir Bar ¬ ton Exterminator Zev Gallant Fox Reigh Count and Twenty Grand Thoroughbreds all and better still great horses every one deserving the appellation great for they could and did do all things well sprint stay or race with success over the intermediate distances in which great horses and great sprinters meet almost on a level levelBubbling Bubbling Over could be added to the roll of honor So could Black Gold and few would dispute their claim to inclusion in the select list but one had a career meteoric but all too short and the other was close to a great horse but somehow did not quite reach the standard set Sentiment probably more than anything else would prompt ad ¬ mirers of Black Gold to include him in the list a sentiment engendered because of his tragic end but then has not the Derby al ¬ ways been a race which tragedy stalks too vividly illustrated by the injury to Burning Blaze a few short days before the race and further emphasized by the defeat of the fa ¬ mous filly Top Flight after she had ruled the future book favorite from its opening to within seven days of Derby day HINDOO A STANDOUT STANDOUTHindoo Hindoo was one of the greatest of the great that won the Derby He scored his victory as long ago as 1881 but even today his name is frequently mentioned by turf followers when they wish to emphasize the speed of some horse when they say He is a regular Hindoo HindooBen Ben Brush small but mighty will never be forgotten for he was the sire of the great Broomstick and the connecting link to the potent Bonnie Scotland whose blood flow ¬ ing through his modern descendants made the name of Whitney one to conjure with on the turf turfLeonatus Leonatus owned by Jack Chinn romped to an easy victory in the ninth renewal of the Derby and while the race set the seal on his greatness he had already earned un ¬ dying fame fameOld Old Rosebud swaybacked but great and just how great nobody will ever know for he was never a sound horse and came back from retirement twice to astonish the turf world by his deeds achieved in a manner reserved only for the mighty mightyRegret Regret the only one of her sex to ever wintmar Khayyam the only foreignbred winner Exterminator or Old Bones as he was affectionately known Zev Reigh Count Gallant Fox Twenty Grand and I I CavalcadeI Cavalcade Turf history carries the name of Extermi ¬ nator as one of the greatest geldings ever raced in America Regret occupies her own niche among her sex and Hindoo sired the immortal Hanover to add additional luster to his shield shieldRiley Riley winner of 1890 confounded the turf world when he defeated the highly regarded Robespierre which the bookmakers thought could not lose the Derby Lose it he did and in very easy fashion for Riley was a great horse horseHalma Halma was a son of Hanover the latter latteras as stated above a son of Hindoo Halma Halmawas was a great horse and he holds a unique uniquehonor honor to this day that of having sired Alan AlanaDale aDale a winner of the Derby after having havingwon won it himself Halma besides being great greatwas was a beautiful horse In appearance he heI I was similar to Chilhowee but his head gave gaveI more assurance of determination than the I theI I speedy Chilhowees I ChilhoweesI Omar Khayyam winner of the 1917 Derby Derbywas was a bargain horse He was purchased for forI I Billings Johnson for 1500 and in the Derby defeated as formidable a horse as Cudgel Omar Khayyam was bred in Eng j Engj land by Sir John Johnson After his Derby victory he raced to still greater fame de dej j f eating the best in America in the rich stake stakeraces I racesI races Zev surely is entitled to rank among the j best of American horses For seven long i years he was the worlds greatest money winning horse until another great Kentucky Derby winner Gallant Fox exceeded his deeds and his winnings by making almost a clean sweep of the great threeyearold prizes of 1930 1930How How are we to measure the greatness of Reigh Count It is a difficult task because this sensational son of Sunreigh after con ¬ quering the American horses of all ages went to England and there after several heartbreaking defeats due to the unfamil iarity of his rider with English racing con ¬ ditions and his own early difficulties in ad ¬ justing himself to rolling grasscovered courses finally found himself and added a new star of the American turf firmament by winning the Coronation Cup and finish ¬ ing second in the Ascot Gold Cup He would probably have won the last named race also had the same rider been in the saddle that piloted him to victory in the Coronation Cup Continued cwt ninth page GREAT DERBY WINNERS WINNERSContinued Continued from second page Twenty Grand was the best threeyearold of 1931 and won eight out of ten starts in ¬ cluding the Kentucky Derby Wood Me ¬ morial Belmont Stakes Travers MidSum mer Derby Saratoga Cup Lawrence Reali zation and The Jockey Club Gold Cup He had all the requisites of a truly great horse extraordinary speed weight carrying ability and stamina to race as far as thoroughbreds are asked to go in these modern days His recent attempt to stage a comeback after an unsuccessful season in the stud attdcd much glamor to the training for and the running of the 100000 Santa Anita Handi ¬ cap is still fresh in mind He is now in England training at Newmarket for some of the notable long distance events of the summer and fall
