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to bear as Alan-a-Dale has broken down and it is doubtful if 

 he will ever face the starter again. 



TWENTY-NINTH DERBY 1903 



Louisville, Ky., May 2, 1903. Weather fine, track fast. l l A 

 miles, time 2 :09. Value to winner $4,850, second $700, third $300. 

 Nominations not given. 



Judge Himes, 117, H. Booker 1 by ^-ls 



Early, 117, Winkfield 2 by 4-ls 



Bourbon, 110, Crowhurst 3 by 6-ls 



Bad News, Woodlake, Treacy also ran. Betting 5 to 3 on 

 Early, 4 Bourbon and Woodlake coupled, 12 Himes. Poor start. 

 Won driving, place easily. Himes ran an excellent race. 



Judge Himes, ch c by Esher — Lullaby. Owned by C. R. 

 Ellison, trained by J. P. Mayberry. 



Within the shadow of the wire, Judge Himes snatched from 

 Early the twenty-ninth Kentucky Derby at Qiurchill Downs 

 to-day. It may have been the over confidence of Winkfield that 

 lost to the favorite the blue ribbon event of the Blue Grass State. 

 Bourbon, six lengths off, was third, while Bad News, Woodlake 

 and Treacy finished in the order named. It was a Derby 

 run and won not by the touted, odds-on favorite, but by the 

 much despised outsider, but be it said to the credit of colt and 

 jockey, he was well piloted and when Judge Himes passed under 

 the wire winner of the classic event, it was to the plaudits of 

 all Kentucky. The victory was a surprise even to Mr. Ellison 

 who had not thought his colt good enough to win. 



A Kentucky Derby always marks an epoch in Kentucky his- 

 tory; time and incidents are reckoned from one Derby to the 

 next, and the event of to-day was characteristic, for there was 

 the same surging, jostling, mass of humanity, crowding stands 



