Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-19
CLYDE VAN DUSEN
SPLASHES THROUGH
MUD TO W|NDERBY
Naishapur Second and Pan
chic, Outsider, Third-Race
Is Run in Rain.
CLASSIC is MARRIED
BY TERRIFIC STORM
Half of 10000 Spectators Drench-
ed-Victor Pays So to Win.
21 Horses Compete.
BY ALAN J. GOULD.
Associated Press Sports Editor.

SE1OEISf11LL OoWNS, LOUISVILLE,
KY, May ia flash of lightning, a
clap of thunder, whirling rush
through the mire-and Clyde Van
Dusen splashed home through the mud
and the rain today to victory in the
fifty-fifth running of the historic Ken
lucky Derby.
This great 3-year-old gelding, first
son of Man O. War to win the classic
prize, lived up to all his advance
notices as a mud runner, by dashing
out in front, holding the lead against
succession of spirited challenges and
beating the hope of the Far West,
Chaffee Earl's speedy Naishapur, by
two good lengths in fine closing drive.
An outsider, Panchio, representing
the Three DIS Stock Farm of Fort
Worth, Tex, finished with a rush to
beat the favorite and home-bred hope,
Col. e. r. Bradley's Blue Larkspur,
for third place. Blue Larkspur, 2 to
/ In the betting, as compared to to
for Clyde Van Dusen, tocis fourth
place.
Nearly $4,000 See Race.
Close to $4,000 spectators, a notable
gathering, at least half of which was
drenched by terrific storm that broke
an hour before the Derby and lasted
until 1t was over, saw the gallant little
offspring of Man o. War ridden to VIC
tory over 20 rivals in masterful style
by Linus CsPony") McAtee. The vet
eran Jockey thereby scored his second
triumph in three years, having had the
mount on Harry Payne Whitney's VIC
torious Whiskery in the 1927 Derby.
The race, having value of $64, ATS,
owner, Herbert r. Gardner of Amster-
dam, N. Y, who received the $1,000
gold cup from the hands of Gov. Samp-
son of Kentucky In the colorful cere-
mony that followed the running. The
victor'S share Of the Spoils Is the second
largest on record, surpassed only by
the sum of s55, ,375, which went to Reigh
Count last year, when q record field of
% horses started.
Clyde Van Dusen paid SO to win,
1910 for place and $306 to show, on
the basis of each So ticket in the
mutuels. Naishapur paid $4.72 to place
and 1925 to show. Panchio's price to
show was $3.50.
The elements, the track, the mud and
the rain all seemed made to order for
Clyde Van Dusen, and the chestnut
gelding, bearing the name Of his
trainer, made the most of 1t.
Caught In jam.
The race, In the verdict of most ex-
perts, was won and lost on the first
turn and in the first half mile. In that
distance, Clyde Van DuSen took the
lead. At that turn, Blue Larkspur was
caught in the jam and so was Naisha-
pur, losing considerable. ground. The
early advantage thus gained by McAtee
proved too much for any Of the others
to overcome.
The only real drama of the race was
packed into this stretch drive and the
outside possibility of Naishapur making
up the distance between this Western
colt and the flying leader.
For a few moments it seemed that
the son Of Omar Khayyam might over
take Clyde Van Dusen. It was q fleet
ing hope. McAtee shook up his mount
bit in the stretch and held his posi-
ton safe.
Blue Larkspur's defeat was a bitter
blow to the Bradley colts legion CT
hackers, who had made the son of Black
Servant a favorite ever since his SEN
the favorite, although caught in an
early jam, had few excuses and under
the conditions was decisively outrun.
Panchio, the star of the Three DIS
stock farm, which raced prominently
for the entire trip, barely stuck his
nose in front of Blue Larkspur to gain
third place in one of the few exciting
episodes of the finish, but Panchio was
three good lengths behind Naishapur.
$4,000 to Naishapur.
The only consolation there was for
these horses, was the distribution of
$4,000 of the money to Naishapur, SO 900
to Panchio and 81 900 to Blue Larkspur
Windy City, owned by F. M. Grabner
OF Chicago, raced evenly and held on
stubbornly enough to take fifth place,
half length behind Blue Larkspur and
a head in front of Voltear, the entry of
Charles T. Fisher of Detroit.
The order of finish otherwise follows:
Seventh, the Nut; eighth, Folking;
ninth, Karl Eitel; tenth, Upset Lad;
Beauty, stable mate of Blue Larkspur
thirteenth, Chicatie; fourteenth, Paul
Bunyan; fifteenth, Essare; SIX
teenth, Lord Braedelbane; seventeenth
Minotaur; eighteenth, Ben Machree. the
only filly in the race; nineteenth, Chip;
twentieth, Prince Pat, and twenty-first
Paraphrase.
This was the second successive year
in which the Derby has been run in the
rain, but it is doubtful whether anything
has quite swamped the track as today's
cloudburSt, the climax of a succession
of showers. 1t was bad to start with
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