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A B C OF THE DERBY LOUISVILLE Ky May 7 Many turf fans who find it enjoyable to play the horses have devious methods of selecting their favorites outside of the generallyaccepted system of picking them on their past performances workouts and breedings Names pretty ones invariably appeal to women while many lesshardened punters among the gen ¬ try rely on their dreams the stars numerol ¬ ogy eenymeenymineymo and a hundred and one other forms of hocuspocus which come under the general heading of select ¬ ing winners winnersIt It is a curious fact that those who employ these lessorthodox methods have just about as much luck as the belabored students of form and they have just twice as much fun Many persons in the vast crowd at Church ¬ ill Downs on Derby Day will pride them ¬ selves on being hunch players and those who are fortunate enough to select the win ¬ ner will have numerous different systems for arriving at their choices choicesThe The alphabet or letter system is one which is certain to get a heavy play in the Derby and those with a bent for this method probably will concentrate on horses whose names begin with the letter B inasmuch as B horses have been the most successful in the sixtytwo previous runnings of the big race No less than ten times during that period have horses whose names begin with B stepped down in front frontTwenty Twenty of the twentysix letters of the alphabet are represented among previous Derby winners and a Daily Racing Form correspondent with nothing better to do at the time has determined that only one more character the letter N can be added this year The letter N is represented by No Sir which is given here for what it is worth worthFor For the benefit of the letter players the sixtytwo previous Derby winners arranged alphabetically follow followA A Aristides Apollo Azra AlanaDale Agile B Baden Baden Buchanan Ben Ali Ben BenBrush Brush Behave Yourself Black Gold GoldBubbling Bubbling Over Burgoo King Brokers BrokersTip Tip Bold Venture VentureC C Chant Clyde Van Dusen Cavalcade D Day Star Donerail Donau E Elwood Exterminator F Fonso Flying Ebony G George Smith Gallant Fox H Hindoo Halma His Eminence J Joe Cotton Judge Himes K Kingman L Lord Murphy Leonatus Lookout Lieut LieutGibson Gibson M Montrose Macbeth II Manuel Meridian MeridianMorvich Morvich MorvichO O Old Rosebud Omar Khayyam Omaha P Plaudit Pink Star Paul Jones R Riley Regret Reigh Count S Spokane Sir Huon Stone Street Sir SirBarton Barton BartonT T Typhoon H Twenty Grand V Vagrant v vW W Wintergreen Worth Whiskery Z Zev
