The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-26
PUGH'S MAIDEN COLT
MAY CAPTURE DERBY
Covington Politician Has Good
Candidate for the Kentucky
Event.
CRACK IS BRIGHT ARCH
He Has Grown Into One OF the
Grandest Looking Three-Year-
Odds in Training.
CRACK IS BRIGHT ARCH

LEXINGTON. Ky. Jan. 25.-Tnless JOS
eph w. Pugh. the COvington (hy) poliu-
clan and owner of an extensive racing
stable. has badly overestimated the merits
of his colt. maiden will win the Kentucky
Derby in 1904. The supposed crack in ques-
ton is Bright Arch. a bay colt by Rainbow
out of Ferona. by imp. Glenelg. and is one
of four colts Pugh bought in a lump last
spring from w. S. Barnes for $500. He was
not broken until January two-year-od,
and being growthy. Pugh instructed his
trainer TO make no effort to race him last
year. Ee was tried out however, in the fall
with trial horse like FOnsoluca. and so
satisfactory was his showing that the Cow
! ington turfman has left him in all the big
stakes and is now willing to close any
Derby book that may be opened at any rea-
sonable odds laid against the son of Rain
bow. This winter Bright Arch has never
had bad day. He has grown and spread
out into one of the grandest looking three
year-old colts in training, and. barring ac-
cidents is sure starter i'm Louisville :
classic event. His dam was herself bril-
liant stake winner and own sister to
Ferida, of the queens of the American
turf. The latter is the granddam OF Jean
Bereaud, winner of over $4,000 In the East
In the twenty mine years history of the
Kentucky Derby no performer that did
not race as a two-yearrold has ever landed
this rich prize. In 1873 Falsetto ran second
TO Lord Murphy, and the son Of Inquirer
did not start a two-year-old. But to show
what difficult task ii is to win this race
by colt with no early track education,
1t is only necessary to mention the fact
that 1t was the only race Falsetto ever
lost, and on an ultimate average he was
pounds better horse than Lord Murphy.
Leonatus the Derby after retiring in
| his two-year-old form a maiden. but at
| that he only started once at the latter age.
and then second in a big field. Drake
| Carter. second in Leonatus's year. like Fall
setto, was never raced as a two-year-old.
and but for meeting one of the greatest
colts of any year would have won the race,
and in fact. he had class enough to win
any nine out of ten Kentucky Derbies be-
| fore or since run. His three-mile time, 5:24.
| is still the worlds record, and 1t has stood
| Tor twenty years. 1t remains to be seen II
| Bright Arch can do what two such sensa-
tional horses as Falsetto and Drake Carter
| just failed to accomplish. Pugh says he
will do the trick.
The Covington turfman's string will be
| trained at Latonia the coming spring, and
| Louisville will be the first racing point of
the stable. He has another promising maid
/ ell three-year-old i'll The Black Eagle, but
his Derby engagements do not include the
| Louisville event He, however. is entered
| in the Latonia and Brighton Derbies. and il
| is the calculation of his owner to send him
| East for the last-named event. as he will
| have big pull i'll the weights in that rich
| trophy.
| Two great mares have proven barren this
| year. and neither the famous Sallie McClel-
| land, owned by Mrs. Byron McClelland, or
| Bonnie Bird, dam of Grand Opera and Bon
/ ne Lissak, located here, but owned by
| Frank Gray, Fort Worth. Tex. will have
foals in 1904 The former is barren to imp.
| Hawkswick. H. T. Oxnards high-priced
| English horse and the latter missed TO imp.
Wagner Bonnie Bird will be bred back TO
| Wagner. but with the consent of Millionaire
| James r. keene, Sallie McClelland viii be
| mated TO Ben Brush. This is the second
| season in succession the great daughter of
q foal in 1903. so the filly now two-year-
old. in German 81 Bauer's stable, is her last
| foal to date.