The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-02-16
FR[NCH.PA|R ARE.
DERBY D |: FA A ! I
Betting Confined Ali1losttS& En-
tirclySto Blanc's$ Colt and i#
. English Cicero.
F:R 1 &: AFTER sHoNoRs.
Seems Destined to Play Large
Part ii English Racing
'rhis Year. ~

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4 i LONDON, Fob. 15.--Betting On the English,
I. derby Is confined almost entirely 10 Cicero
tho Etgllsl, colt, ahd N Edmund Dlanc.si
i frying Fox. n colts Val Z OF and Jnrdy. Tie.
French pair are fuvorites at prcHeiit, III Ito
beler than three 10 ono being laid against
them and around q Ito 4 coupled. Cicero hos
been heavily supported at . -? to 4, money
\ AZ that amount being snapped up TO consider
Ablo sums Soma layers nrc offering a to -
shout Cicero, but they will mot accept any
large beta, ana eyri Mt As not a great amount
will DO taken. Establishment have q habit OF
selecting Tho winners Of big events far ahead
I. OF their decisions. Last year only two ana
ona.haf 10 one was laid at this time that
i Pretty Polly would not win tho loo guncas
and Oaks. stiia others went fur her and laid
q to 4 TINT she would not In addition win the
81. ledger. Those who accepted these odds
nit The bookinakcrs heavily. Cicero md the
French pair really stand out from, the other
slgihes and tho betting. therefore, In really
resolving itself Into a question OF selecting
ons possibility In Two. II IS probable that It
the Flying Fox colts were owned In England
4 they wpuli ba al IL still shorter. price. Il
Jat.dy liz liked because OF his success In the
Middle Park Plate on the occasion OF his only
running In England THAT event las captured
y, conn, on Gantsr from a. field that N.
Z clnded nca rly15 AL the Deft younsstcrH Oh LINZ
teaso,, WITH exception &c cle.ro. Iis vas
giving Weight to AL but Two of HIS opponents
and .tie Serernl opinion that ne scored
on August Nth, when he won the y F,rtx
2Yacowlef hy six lengths from a fed OF twelve.
Attn BY ten lengths. and On october Sth. five
+ days before tho 1Middle Park Plate was run.{
y no ca ptnred the crtterim Int irrational In q,
canter Thus. his four appearances ~ pub
{lit were marked by victories. In none OF which
WAS he fully extentcd and HIS uctua form Is
known to only his own stable. Ills dam IS
tho Oaks. winner. Avia anu II 9 races y Pys
Ayrshire Lady lAlluync g5E! "A;
f5val I'd Or'H dam In Vfondora.s by Bruce
Windfall yyandora hal ALREADY bred Vinic!usN
3dition race at DeauyIllc ON August 18th. tho
I,rtxB la RochGtta at Paris, on september ith
the gCrlterium hfaSons Lnfittt, on September
18th. Id which he carried big weight, ana the
Grand Critsriutn on September 18th His re-:
cord is considered aquitn ~ good az Jardy,s
Newmarket. ms well us tho Epson derby.
Whether they Will be sent 10 England or
not is az got undecided " !, M a
"A NJ Blanc who seems destined to play n
Year, ms four studs Just out Of Paris. II
another Flying Foxs son. Ajax, q nd the third
SAXON who, like Ajax. Ia winner sof ting
French, derby Flying Fox has +. already eataP.
siished his reputation as a stallion. while. his
took part last season. begins stna
lie thiy year. Saxon was not. despite MS
victory, In the French derby, q race horse
Of tho same class as Flying Fox and = 1nx; but
shrine and his dandy Clairdeaux or lso-
EInonly-,yas a marc TINT carried the Duchess
OF Niontrose's colors with credit SOME Twelve
or thirteen years al 4,