Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-22
ORBYS VICTORY
RECALLS SCANDAL
Crime Committed on English Turf
p With Derby Favorite
The Victim.
SON FULLY AVENGED SIRE.
Startling Declaration by Duke OF West
minister That Ormc Has Bccn Pcis.
oned-Horsc Would Have Won.

Among the mighty throng on EPSON
Downs who saw Richard Croker's Orby
score one of the easiest Derby victories
on record there We're thousands in
whose minds arose the memory of the
fate of his sire, orme whose poisoeing
when favorite for the Derby IN 1897,
which he could not have lost. brought
about one Of the greatest turf scandals
IN history.
For those veterans in racing tho tri-
umph OF Orby possessed an added de-
light In truth the son had fully
avenged the wrong to his sire.
Orme, greatest OF the sons OF the
great Ormondc and, like his sire and
Erandsre, the property of the Duke of
Westminster was justly the idol of the
public no less than the aristocratt
rlungers whom as q 2-year-oid he had
so often saved from disaster ana ruin
IN his first year of racing he haa
swept the board Of the principal races
Cor a-yoar-p lds. his victories including
the classic Dewhurst and Middle Park
Plates and the Richmond Stakes and
Prince of Wales Stakes at Goodwood.
his only defeat being when suffering
from A slight cold. He was beaten a
short head by the flying Signorina in
5he Lancashire Plate at the Manchcs-
Ter September meeting. No one of his
S-year-old rivals. with the possible cX-
centioh of Common, who, in the abb
aence OF Orme, actually won the Two
Thousand Gulneas, the Derby and St
ledger had ever approached within 20
pounds OF his form.
lheSc thrce classic races were at the
mercy of the Duke of Westminster
" men on the morning of April 80 the
news came that orme, trained az
hihgsciere, had. after splendid gal
Top with Nasistas, one of the best trial
hoIses in the country. fallen Ill.
oRME WAS POISONED.
Following this announcement came
lne startling declaration by the Duke OF
westminster that Orme had been poi
Aonec. IL had been at first supposed
tnat Orme's atlment was caused by an
Nscerated tooth and there were few
Who accepted the dukes theory. John
Porter the trainer of Orme. defending
ne credit OF his stable. declined to be-
HeYe that such an act would be possible
win a colt as carefully guarded as
prmc was at that time but his con-
lnued Illness. rendering 1t impossible
Tor him to run for the Two Thousand
sulneas' first of the 3-year- old classics.
ana an extended examination by yeter-
mary surgeons. esta blished the fact
tnat Orme was indeed suffering from
me effects of strychnine poisoning, and
that - fatal dose had been admins
tered to him some time between his
salop with Naslstas on the afternoon
oil April 20 and his appearance at ex-
efcise-his coat ragged, his eyes dun
and listless. his step dragging-on the
morning Of April 80
The excitement aroused by the
CT me was almost without a parallel
me Englishman's love of a good
horse the general respect for his
owner. who had done much to lend
olsn'ty TO the turf; the common ha-
ped OF the bookmaker and the senti-
hieht OF humanity arose dominant
aDoNc all considerations For many
GAYS while Orfge hung between life
and death, crowds stood outside the
newspaper oftcos In Fleet street
awaiting tho bulletins that announced
each change in his condition, and
,here was general JOY when it was
KNOWN mat orme would live. As
h.atter OF course. he was struck out
OF the Derby.
LEGAL INVESTIGATION.
Then came the legal investigation
extending over many months. Il was
SHOWN mat several Of the leading
speculative bookmakers In England
and on the continent had laid long
prices against Orme for the triple
event and for the Derby alone. and
mat TO them his victory meant ruin
j was intlmatod that an attache OF
the stable had administered the poip-
on. But The effort OF the Scotland
Yard detectives to trace the connec-
ton between the tool and tho gang
az blaekless who had organized the
conspiracy failed
Ii N perhaps In the Fitness of things
that Orme should win the Derby, for
ne IS directly descended from a line
OF Derby winners. Those who saw
hum bowl down the Epson hill prob
hbly recalled the laundering rush OF
his great great -grandsire. Doncnster.
down the same hill. in which he swal-
lowed mp kalscr ana Gang Forward,
and frightened everybody with a VIC
tory az odds of 40 TO |; OF Fred Arch
cr'S wondrous finish, his left leg half
over tho rail, on Orhy's great grand
sire Ben d'Qr, p son Of Doncaster in
the Derby OF 1850. and OF the Triple
Clown triumph of his grandsIre. Or
monde son If Ben dor Through
Doncaster too, orby - descended
from Stockwel, famous st. Lceer
victor, and the progenitor OF lnnumor-
able famous racers In this country ana