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GOVERNOR BACKS NAMESAKE FRANKFORT,, Ky., April 22. Gov. A. B. "Happy" Chandler of Kentucky could not slight his thoroughbred namesake and has a modest wager riding on the Kentucky Derby, which will be run at Louisville on May 7. It became known here today that Governor Chandler bet on Gov. Chandler, the son of Reigh Count and Saucy Sue, which Joseph C. Metz named for him. Gov. Chandler is 30 I to 1 in the future books, if the governors bet has not cut his price. "His sire won the I race in 1928," said the governor of Kentucky; I He also disclosed that he flaunted a tip from I Postmaster-General Farley, who wrote him i that Stagehand, the favorite, will win the classic. I
