KENTUCKY DERBY 65 



The surprise was in the awful performance of Ulysses. Those 

 who had seen the colt work did not like his going, but in the 

 name of wonder what was "Brown Dick" thinking of to throw 

 away that hundred starting money on a dog which may not win 

 it back in his whole year's campaign. Surely a trainer like "Dick" 

 could not have been so deceived. I am of the opinion that 

 irresistible Secretary Price buncoed "Dick" into starting a colt 

 who had no more pretentions to being a Derby horse than honest 

 "Dick" has of being a dude. 



Semper Ego somewhat redeemed himself for his poor showing 

 at Lexington, and may be dangerous to some of the cracks yet, 

 and The Dragon ran his usual good, honest race, doing the best 

 that is in him. Parson and The Winner had no business in the 

 Derby and nobody thought they had, but probably only started 

 as a compliment to a very popular track management. 



With the aid of the form sheet below the story of the race 

 is soon told. The Dill starting machine, which resembles that of 

 Curly Brown and is the work of a Louisville man was used in 

 all the races except the Derby, but in the big race Col. Chinn 

 used the old flag flat-footed and unaided. There were several 

 break-a-ways in all of which Ben Brush was prominent, and 

 which were principally caused by First Mate's fiery desire to 

 run. Incidently, it was comical to see what a difference was 

 presented by this degenerate son of Shipmate when he reached 

 the same spot again after going once around the yellow circle. 

 Then he wanted to lay right down and be put to bed. He never 

 cared if he never saw another horserace as long as he lived and 

 his craven heart called loudly for action by the humane society 

 forbidding the use of spurs. 



They were finally off with Ben Eder in the lead, but First 

 Mate shot to the front at once and nearly pulling Thorpe's arms 

 from their sockets set a merry clip past the stand, down the back 



