The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-14
THE COLT KINGMAN
Wins the Great Kentucky DERBY
Handily.
A GREAT DAY AT LOUISVILLE
The Time Was not Fast, but the Crowd Wss
One Of the Largest Ever Assem-
bled There

LOUISVILLE, May 13.-Although the
Deroy proved tame, fiat, and uuinterest-
lng' the regular spring meeting of the
Louisville Jockey club was most ansnic.
lously lnaugurated at Churchill Downs IN.
uay' Inc city was overrun with strangers
attracted by the Derby, and the Demo.
cratlc State convention adjourned in honor
Oh Inc occasion. The field and every nrono
lnence without the enclosure waz bIacl,
WIN people. The grand stands. enlarged
since last year, and the newly terraced
ia"ns' were damned, and on top of tbs
stdnas so great was the crowd perched
tnere tnat apprehensions were felt tbere
would be collapse The attendance woa
nearly forty thousand, and among them voa
tne largest number of ladies ever
~ tne ladies' stands. The club
mouse ard lawns and betting stand
were occupied by fifty bookmakers
ana they had great deal more than thew
couIa attend to. 1t had been announced
the starters in the Derby would be Hart
wallace, Valera, Georgetown, Balpowan
hlhgman and Easton and Larabie,s mai,
digh Tariff and Poet Scout. Hon Rrt
owens, OF Georgetown, owner of Georoa~
Town, concluded his colt was not fit and va
FUSED TO subject him TO the TRYING ordas /
anu ne was announced non-starter Scog'
gin brothers also decided not 20 try anu
experiments with Valera, whom they
wanted to save Easton LET Hipb Tar;SS
the best of his pair remain in a1d 49,
Wlt1 hIngman and Hart Wallace. made the
neiu. , hlngman's great race at I.exinoto1
enIIGIeo MIN to the first call in betting. and
IL was liberal bookmaker that iaid
0ads Oh S2OO to $500 on the winner
baIgoWan was second choice at 5 to Q with
. ana III TO l obtainable against Hart Wal
lace and High Tariff When tine Darb,,
was called Kingman came ont fret LAY 95oy
Dy isaac Murphy, and recognition of tbs
Morse ana rider was followed by cheers
Iha1 tne surrounding knobs and hiIItons
TOOK up and echoed back again. Others
were also gwen cordial reception nv this
crowd. Ranfed was up when given the
nag ab tne nrst attempt Slowly the pace
was set with High Tariff making the r,,I,
ming, Balgowan at his saddle o,irtbs IN
hlngman and Hart Wallace well mn rrbs
pace was slow and at the half positions
were unchanged. They passed the stand
IN Ihe same order. but on the back stretch
dart VILLAGE and High Tariff Joined strides
WIN Baigowan at the same old place. The
race qulckened as the mile was finished
hlngman's stride was regular and his hood
was In the air, although Murphv had been
gradually improving disposition. A fur
long from the post Kingman was on even
terms with BSlgowan, the rest heaten
Dack. The struggle was brief. Another
klnk, Murphy's lines went out, his wbiu
descended and the colts RESPONSE .yUas
burst OF speed that shook the hard
whipped and hard-ridden Balgowan off and
sent him in winner of the Derby nv an
open length. BalgoWan was second a
length from High Tariff. Hart Wallace
half length to the rear. No one exnected
the 1sst time, for there was nothing to mako
hingman run, and with the track heavy
with dust there was no disappointment
when the time 2:5215 hung up. The dis
lance was the regular Derby route. one
and half miles and each carried 100
pounds. The pecuniary value of this wears
Derby was about 81, 200.
The following is a summary of the other
races:
Six furlongs, weight for age. tbree-ouar-
tiers of mile-Too Sweet won, Jubilee sec.
ond, Bob L. third. Time-1 16.
Ihree- year old maidens. weight for age
mle-Mllt 4oung won, Mabelle second
Sir Abner third. Tlme-1:4
IWo-year-olds and upwards. five fur
longs-Overton and John Bepley ran a dead
heat, Unadilla third. Time-1 ;O4. Purse
divided. 80
Ihree-y year ODDS and upward, three quar-
tiers of mile, heats-Sullross won. ROYAL
Garter second, Duke of Highlands third.
Time ii.
Second heat-Sullross and ROYAL Garter.
ran dead heat, Ed Hooper third. Time
1:1611.
The run off was won by Sullross from
Royal Garter. Time-1 rs.