St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-13
The KENTUCKY DERBY
Interest in the Great Blue
Grass Event of To-Morrow
Very Great.
Gallifet a Hot Favorite--The
Other Horses That
Will Start.
Twenty or Twenty Five
Horses May Start in the
Kentucky Handicap.
Killen and Conley Each Post
a Forfeit Of $500 for
a Fight.


at Churchill downs will witness the in
auguration of what promises to be the
greatest race meeting in the history of
the Kentucky turf. Horses aggregating
between 600 and 700, and possibly more,
Will meet here and battle for the great
turf trophies offered by the Louisville
Jockey club-eQuine giants from Cali
fornla, the flower of Kentucky and the
South, together with fair sprinkling
from the cream of the East. All the old
stakes have been fattened up by an in
crease of the added money, new ones
have been created, and the purses have
been swollen 25 per cent. There will be
ten days racing in all, and the follow
ing review will give a foretaste of the
quality and nature of the sport to be eX-
pected: Of course the principal event
of the first day-as we'll as the entire
meeting is
THE GREAT KENTUCKY DERBY,
mile and half, for three-year-olds.
1t is the blue ribbon event of the Amer
lean turf, and while it may not in in
trinsic value equal several of the i'm
portant events both East and West, to it
attaches greater prestige than to any
race run On American soil. 1t enhances
the value of the winner as racer and
as stud. Take the derby winners from
1875 to that of 1SS7-Aristides, Vagrant,
Baden Baden, Day Star, Lord Murphy,
FOnso, HindOO, Apollo, Leonatus, B IL
chanan, Joe Cotton, Ben Ali and Mont
rOse-and it will be found that there
was not cold-blooded animal in the
lot. Montrose, it is true, is not world
beater, but he is anything but ''plug,"
despite the fact that his capture of the
derby last year was something of a
fluke. With the exception of Fonso,
who went to pieces with lung fever
shortly after the race. all were winners
again in good company. HindoO, Aris-
tides, LeOnatus, FOnsO, Baden Baden,
Day Star and Buchanan are making
fame for themselves and gold for their
owners in the stud to-day, while Joe
Cotton, Ben Ali and MOntrOse are still
equine generations. So much for past
Derby winners; now as to the coming
new one. OF the
THIRTY-THREE CANDIDATES
remaining undeclared there will prob
ably be twelve starters, as follows: The
Chicago stables Macbeth, by Macdutf,
dam Agnes; George Rye's Zeb Ward,
by Hindoo, dam Galatea; d. Gibson's
Autocrat, by imp. Prince Charlie, dam
Blomida; F. B. Harper's Patton, by
Ten Brock, dam Lizzie Stone;
the Melbourne stables Gallifet, by
Falsetto-India, and The Lion, by
Billet-Vida; BaldWin's Wonderland,
by Grinstead-Sister Anne, and Prince
Charlie, by imp. Prince Charlie-Sa-
lima; Labold Bros The Chevalier, by
imp. Prince Charlie-Miss Haverly;
w. o. Scully'S White, by King Ban
Hegiaz; J. L. McGowan'S Ed Mack, by
Ten BrOeck-Lizzie Billet, and E. Cor
rigan's Window, by Ten Broeck-imp.
Queen Maud. To these may be added
Long Roll, Glen Fortune and Tenacity,
but it is doubtful if the field is larger
than twelve, and those first named Ger
tainly have the call at present. OF
these Gallifet will be decided favorite
Monday, and by many he is conceded
the race already. Macbeth is thought
to be tritie stale and Overworked, but
the public shouldn't depend solely on
appearances. Macbeth is, it is true,
running second or unplaced in num-
Der of races at present. but there is no
good reason why this should not be done
for the purpose of deDreciating his stock
in the Derby and afford the owners
chance to
MAKE A "KILLING
on the great Kentucky event. Persons
who have seen Macbeth run recently
are fully satisfied that the horse has not
been pushed to win race for a couple
of weeks. 1t would, therefore, be wise
policy to keep all eye on the Chicago
stables entry and not depend too much
on appearances. Zeb Ward is still in
excellent trim. but the company he will
meet Monday is likely to prove too rich
for him. Autocrat is much-tipped
horse, and may show up among the
leaders, but he will hardly be first.
Wonderland is enveloped in an appar-
emily impenetrabie cloud; nobody
knows what he can do but his stable,
and they are as dumb as oysters.
Prince Charlie, his stable com
panion, proved himself sec
Ond PendenniS at Nashville in his
single public trial there, and will prob
ably only be put in to cut out the run
ming. The Derby route is said to be a
tritle too far to please Patton, and, as he
not had an opportunity to demonstrate
otherwise by performance this year, he
will be handled very gingerly by the
betters when he comes to the post. The
Lion. with whom the stable would
sooner win than Gallifet, is evidently
much overrated animal and will hardly
figure in the race after the stretch is en-
tered. Ed Mack and Window are
doubtful quantities in the race at best,
and can be left out of the calculations
with safety. The Chevalier's excellent
performance in the Phoenix Hotel
stakes, at Lexington, Tuesday last, in
which
HE GATHERED HOME
from Macbeth and Autrocrat, winning
the race by three open lengths, in 2:10,
shows that the owner knew what he was
doing when he closed the books on him
in the Derby several weeks ago. He
has not covered mile and half as vet.
however, and this may prove his weak
point. Of that nothing is known out
side of the stable. Taking it altogether
and summing up the performances, both
public and private, the consensus of
| opinion points to Gallifet as the winner.
with Macbeth and the Chevalier we'll
| up. The other races on the first day
| are club purse of S400 for
maiden two-year-olds, five furlongs;
purse of s4O0 for all ages, one and
| one-siXteenth miles, selling, and the
| Frank Fehr Brewery purse of $500, a
| selling race for all ages, three-quarter
mile heats. The event of the second
| day will be the Hurstburne stakes. five
| eighths of mile for two-year-old fillies,
| $1,000 added. In it are the pick of the
Southern youngsters, among them
Blessing, Laura Stone, The Lioness,
Monita Hardy, Baldwin's Lady Lulu
Sister to Lucky b, Sunlight, the Chi
| cago stables Vendetta and others.
There are eighty-three entries in all, of
which fifteen to twenty will come to the
! post. The other races are selling
dash of mile for a purse of S40O, for
| two-year-Olds: three-quartes mile
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