Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-05-25
INTEREST IN BIG DERBY
Several American Horses Have Been
Entered In Derby to Be Run at
EPSON Downs Wednesday.
CHerald Specially

London, May 25.-Interest in the
Derby at EPSON Downs tomorrow is
at fever heat The fact that several
American horses are entered in the
great race has added to the popular
interest in the event. Many bets are
being placed on the American colt Sir
Martin, owned by Louis Winans, who
bought him from the American horse
man, j. P Madden.
Should an American horse win the
Derby it would be almost without pre-
cedent. In all the one hundred and
thirty years of the famous contest
the Derby has been won but once by
an American-bred horse. This was in
1881, when Pierre Lorillard's colt Iro-
quois finished first, with Peregrine
second and Town Moor third.
The EPSON Derby, the most famous
and highest priced of the so-called
Classic" events of the English turf,
has been raced for continuously since
the year it was instituted, 1880, but
in spite of its fame, it is not the old
est of the great English races, the St
Leger first run in 1776, and the Oaks,
for fillies three year old, companion
race to the Derby, first run in 1879,
both antedating the event whose title
has been a synonym for a supreme
tria.
The first Derby, run over the turf
course of EPSON Downs, over nearly
the same ground that the race, still is
decided on, was won by Sir c. Bun
bury's Diomed, horse who late in
life was sold out of England and i'm
ported to the United States, to be-
come one of the most potent influ-
ences on the blood horse of America,
Diomed, more than any other horse,
figuring in the pedigrees of the Amer
lean race horse, and also being a
fountain-head to which is traced the
stoutest and fastest of the American
trotters. Diomed's Derby was at
distance of one mile, but the race was
increased to a mile and a half the
next year.
The history of the EPSON Derby
would amount to history of the Eng
ish turf since the famous event was
instituted. Even in the present time,
however, when half a dozen other
races of greater value are annual fix
lures on the English turf, it still is
the highest ambition of the British
turfman to win the Derby. an honor
the present King of England, and
which earlier jim Derby records was
earned five times by Lord Egremont.
with Assassin in 1882, Hannibal in
1903, Cardinal Beaufort in 1903, Elec-
ton in 1907, and Lapdog in 1926, and
four times each by two other famous
racing men, Sir ]. Hawley having
won four times, with Teddington in
1851; Beadsman in 1858; Musjid in
1853, and Blue Gown in 1868, and the
late Duke of Westminster having won
the same number of times, with Bend
Or in 1880; Shotover, the third fiIly
to capture Derby honors, in 1882; the
great son of Bend Or, ormonde, in
1886, and with the one hundred and
eighty-six thousand horse, Flying Fox,
in 1900 In 1905 Lord Rosebery real
lied the ambition of years when his
famous. Cicero captured the classic
event. One of the greatest disappoint-
ments to the English turfman was
two years ago, when Richard Cookers
Irish-bred colt orby captured the
Derby
The fastest Derby ever run was
that of 1906, when Major Loeder's
spearmint was first in 2::36 As.
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