MORVICH 



Part III 

 DERBY DAY 



This is the eve of Derby Day. 



I am stabled at Churchill Downs, not far 

 from the city of Louisville, Kentucky. This 

 is the very heart and capital of all the Blue 

 Grass Region where since Daniel Boone and 

 his fellow pioneers first followed the Wilder- 

 ness Trail through Cumberland Gap from the 

 Eastern Shore, the horse has been king. Through 

 all the dark years when the breeding and rac- 

 ing of thoroughbreds languished in other parts 

 of the country, when legislatures and purity 

 leagues combined to close the great tracks, 

 racing has been kept alive here. For fifty years 

 the annual American classic of the turf, the 

 Kentucky Derby, has been run here. Tomor- 

 row it will be run again and — I will be out to 

 win it. 



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