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Balmoral I By J. J. Murphy Domino Honors One of Turfs Great Names Speedster Won Hyde Park Stakes in 1893 Fly Wheel to Race On Chicago Circuit WASHINGTON PARK, Homewood, 111., June 11.— One of the new stakes on Chicagos racing calendar this season is the Domino, to be run here Wednesday. It is named for a turf great of three score years ago who was winner of the • great majority of his 25 starts and who was victorious in the Hyde Park Stakes at the old Washington Park course in 1893. In taking the event Domino earned 6,900, a rather fabulous sum for that era. Domino, who was a horse that did not care to go much over one mile, made only two appearances 1U bllG VyllllagU llyl/. X1C Wil3 unplaced in the mile and a half American Derby of 1894, that event being won by Rey El Santa Anita, who we believe, was owned by Lucky Baldwin, on whose property the present Santa Anita race track was built. The records show that Domino figured in two match races and ran a dead heat with his rival in each. The first was at Sheepshead Bay in which he finished all even with Dobbins, arid the next, one year later, at Brooklyn when tied with Henry of Navarre. At the end of his rather brief career Domino was the worlds leading money-winning horse with earnings of almost 00,000. Although his career at stud was short, he formed the foundation of one of Americas greatest breeding lines. Wednesdays Domino Handicap will be worth 0,000 added and will be at seven furlongs for three-year-olds arid upward.
