The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-14
KINGMAN'S VICTORY.
The Kentucky Derby Won by
Half a Length.
The Winner and Rider Cheertd by an
Immense Crowd Of People.
AuSpiCiOuS Inauguration Of the Spring Meet
ing Of the Louisville Jockey Club.
Two Dead Heats.
Special to THE MORNING CALI.

LOUISVILLE, May 13 - Although the
Derby proved tame. fiat aud uninteresting,
the regular spring meeting of the Louisville
Jockey Club was most auSpiciously inaug-
urated at Churchill Downs to-day. The
city was overrun with strangers attracted
here by the Derby, and the Democratic
State Convention adjourned in honor of
the occasion. The field and every prom
inence without the enclosure was black with
people. The grand stands, enlarged since
last year, and the newly terraeed lawns
were jammed. and on top of the stands so
great was the crowd perched there that ap-
prehensons were felt that there would be a
collapse. The attendance was nearly forty
thousand, and among them was the largest
number of ladies ever seen in the ladies'
stands, clubhouse and lawns. The betting
stand was occupied by fifty boOk-makers,
and they had great deal more than they
could attend to.
1t had been announced that the starters
in the Derby would be Hart Wallace. Val
lera, Georgetown, Balgowan, kingman, aud
Easton and Larabe'S pair High Tariff and
Poet Scout Hon. Bill Owens of George
town, owner of Georgetown, concluded that
his colt was not fit and refused to subject
him to the trying ordeal, and he was an
nOunced a nOn-starter. ScOggin Brothers
also decided not to try any experiments with
Valera, whom they wanted to save. Easton
let High Tariff, the best OF his pair,
remain in, and these, with kingman and
Hart Wallace. made the field. King
mans. great race at Lexington entitled
him to the first class in the betting,
and it was a liberal 50OR-maker that laid
the odds of $500 to $500 on the winner.
Balgowan was second choice at t. 2. with
and 10 to l obtainable against Hart Wall
ace and High Tariff. When the Derby was
called Kingman came out first. ridden by
Isaac Murphy, and the recognition of the
horse and rider was followed by cheers that
the surrounding knobs and hilltops took up
and echoed back again. The others also
were given a cordial reception by the crowd.
Ranged up they were given the flag at
the first attempt The pace was set
with High Tariff making the running,
BalgOwan at the saddle girths and
Kngman and Hart Wallace well up. The
pace was slow and at the half the positions
were unchanged They passed the stand in
the same order. but on the back stretch
Hart Wallace and High Tariff joined strides,
with Balgowan at the same old place. The
pace quckened as the mile was finished.
Kingman's stride was regular aud his head
was in the air, although Murphy had been
gradually improving his position. A fur
long from the post Kingman was on
even terms with Bagowan and the
rest beaten back. The struggle was
brief; another kink of Murphy's lines went
ont, the whip descended and the colts re-
sponSe was a burst of speed that shook the
hard-whipped and hard-ridden Balg0wan
off, and sent him winner OF the Derby by
an open length. Ba!gowan was second a
length from High Tariff, Hart Wallace
half length TO the rear.
Nobody expected fast time for their was
nothing to make Kingman run, and with
the track heavy with dust, there was no
disappointment when the time 2:52A, was
hung up. The distance was the regular
Derby route, one and half miles and each
horse carried 122 pounds. The pecuniary
value of this Years Derby is about S4700.
Following is a summary OF the other races:
Six furlongs, weight for age, .three-quarters
of a mile, Too Sweet won, Jubilee second,
Bob l. third. Time, :16.
Three-year-old handicap, weight for age,
one mile, Milt Young won, Mabelle second,
Sir Abner third. Time. l Al.
Two-year-Olds and upward, five furlOngs.
COverton and John Berkeley ran a dead
heat, Unadilla third. Time, 1904. Purse
divided.
Three-year-oldS and upward, three-quar-
ter S-of-a-mile heats. SullrOss won, Royal
Garter second, Duke of Highlands third.
Time, IA. Second heat, Sullross and
Royal Garter ran dead heat, Ed Hopper
thild. Time, :16A. Run-Off won by Sull-
ross from Royal Garter. Time, :16.