The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-05-20
KENTUCKY'S GREAT DAY.
KINeMAN WINS THE DERBY EASILY.
There Was No other Horse In IL from the
start-Forty thousand People Pres
ent-rhe Tune Very slow Other
Sportiag Events OF the Day.

Louisville jockey club was most aus
piciously inaugurated at Churchill Downs
today. Early in the morning low, black
clouds gave promise Of rain. The wind
blew in frightiul gusts and made the
streets OF the city disagreeable. 1t turned
cooler towards noon, the clouds were
driven away, the sun shone out brightly.
but the dust and the wind remained.
The seventeenth Kentucky derby, the
frstsevere race for western three-year-olds,
was 10 be run IN the afternoon aud derby
day in Louisville and Kentucky means
what all holidays put together and rolled
into one might do in other places The
city was overrun with strangers attracted
here by the democratic state convention
that assembled at noon and adjourned in
honor of the occasion.
Attracted by the races people followed
the horses from Nashville and Lexington,
and the whole state emptied in Louisville.
where the coming equine champions were
TO meet in a heartbreaking test OF stamina
and speed on the turf Scotch Irishmen
from all over the United States were here
TO attend their convention, and of course
they helped swell the crowd. Advance
delegations of Elks, a day in advance OF
their national meeting, were here and
there We're thousands OF strangers from
southern Indiana, north and Central
Tennessee. West Virginia and Ohio, who
came in just TO see the derby. Vehicles
OF every kind were in demand and as
early as II o'clock the asphalt drives and
bouIevards leading 10 the Downs were
lined with coaches. carriages, hughes,
traps, pony carts, express wagons. omni-
buses and vehicles of all kinds, and the
tide of pedestrians and street car pas
sengers was pouring into the course.
The field inside the track ratings was
full and people OF every class and occupa-
ton stood Tor hours there in the hot sun
and the blowing dust, maintaining uncom-
Portable positions for the sport that was 10
come. by 2 o'clock there were % 600 peo-
pie in the field ami every prominence
without the Enclosure was black with
people.
The grand stands, enlarged since last
year and the newly terraced lawns were
janmed. On top of the stands SO great
was the crowd perched there, that appre-
tensions were felt that there would be q
collapse and a great accident.
Enough people paid admission to swell
the attendance to 10000. and among them
was the largest number OF ladies' ever in
the ladys stands. club house and lawns.
The betting stand was occupied by fifty
book-makcrs and they had great deal
more than they could attend to. II was
here that the jam was great and ii was a
serious undertaking to attempt to work
ones way from one book-maker's stand to
his neighbors. Betting was OF the lveliest
kind and the bookImakers made a money
haul. OF course the derby was the great
attract on and the public took what luck
gave them in the preliminary races with
the greatest good humor.
1t had been announced that the starters
in the derby would be Hart Wallace,
Nalleria, Georgetown. Kingman, Balgowan
and Eastin, Larabie's pair High Tariff
and Poet Scout. The Hon. Bill Owens OF
Georgetown, owner OF Georgetown, con-
cludcd his colt was not fit and refused TO
subject him to the trying ordeal and he
was announced asa non-starter. This
was disappointment to the pnblic who
expected to see q colt that wassuch good
one last year be right up in the hunt. The
Scoggan brothers also decided not TO try
any experiments with Valleria whom they
MAUttu IO SAW, anu DOOhlnAhClo uiGN q
blue line across his name. Eastin let
High Tariff, the best OF his pair, remain in,
and these with Kingman and Hart Wal
lace made the field.
Kingman's great races at Lexington en-
titled him to first call in the betting, and
it was q liberal bookmaker that laid odds
OF 500 to $500 on his winning. Balgowan
was second choice ut to >, with and 10
to | obtainable against Hart Wallace and
High Tariff The place odds against
Bagowan were 2 To ) on. Some book
makers laid to against the field, and
those who thought history would repeat
itself and that the odds on favorite would
again be defeated, laid against Kingman
in this fashion.
The trumpeter's "boots and saddle" at
4 o'clock cleared the betting stands, and
then there was n stampede for advantage
Gus positions any point where even
any kind of view of the course could be
obtained Everything was expectancy
and excitement, and betokened great in
terest in what was to come. The course
was cleared of teams and scrapers, and
from the west cato a clean-limbed, strong
ly-muscled trim, but large-boned
colt gracefully cantered down the track.
AS he drew nearer his cleaning, glossy
flanks, his clean limbs, his movements,
his sinews and his every motion promised
strength and speed, Under the wine, yell
low and blue of Mr.. Kinsea ). Stones ia
Goblin stable appeared Kineman, king of
equines, bestrode by Isaac Murphy, the
colored Archer, and recognition OF horse
and rider was followed by cheers that
the surrounding knobs and hills-tops took
up and echoed back again. Gracefully re-
moving his cap. Murphy swept by. and
the black and white star of the Balgowan's
stables, Balgowan, next attracted atten-
ton.
The colt was ridden by the black Over
ton, and il conqueror was 10 be found
for Kingman, Baigowan was his name.
Kiley on Hart Wallace, ami Williams on
High Tariff, cantered past the crowded
stands and TO the half mile pole where
Starter James B. Ferguson awaited them.
Ranged up they were given the flag at the
first attempt They're off," from thous-
ands of throats came next. The seven
teenth derby was making, and there
never was such crowding and jamming
for first view of the racers. Slowly the
pace was set. with High Tariff making the
running. Balgowan at the saddle eirths.
and Kingman and Hart Wallace we'll up.
The pace was slow and at that half the
positions were unchanged all along the
way from the wire. They passed the
stand in the same order, but on the
| back stretch Hart Wallace and High
| ~ .;n ,n;,ad otr;3oo with polcouon of his