HISTORY OF THE 



horse he is well made and showed he possessed more speed than 

 anything in the race. Take it all in all, one cannot help but 

 say that they were a bad lot of Derby horses, and if such a 

 horse as Ben Brush, Ornament, Halma or Alan-a-Dale had been 

 there they would have looked like $200 selling platers. It was 

 a nice race to look at, every horse looked to have a chance the 

 entire route, well bunched they struggled hard and did their 

 best. The time, 2:08^2, was good when you consider the time 

 made in previous Derbies. Judge Himes won the Derby in 2:09, 

 Alan-a-Dale in 2:08%, His Eminence in 2:07%, Lieut. Gibson in 

 2:06 I A, Plaudit in 2:09, Typhoon II., in 2:12^ and Ben Brush 

 in 2:07%, all carrying the same weight. 117 pounds. 



THIRTY-FIRST DERBY 1905 



Louisville, Ky., May 10, 1905. Weather clear. Track muddy. 

 \% miles. Value to winner $4,850, second $700, third $300. 



Time 2:10%. Nominations ( ). 



Agile, 122, J. Martin 1 



Ram's Horn, 117, Lyne 2 



Layson, 1 17, D. Austin 3 



Betting 3 to 1 on Agile, 2 Horn, 15 Layson. Won by three 

 lengths, ten lengths between second and third. 



Agile, bay colt, 3, by Sir Dixon — Alpena. Owned by Capt. 

 S. S. Brown. 



DESCRIPTION OF RACE. 



Today is Derby Day in Louisville and the thirty-first run- 

 ning of the Kentucky Derby was won by Capt. S. S. Brown's 

 Agile, with Ram's Horn in second place and Layson third. 

 The attendance was the largest in the history of the famous 

 track and the twenty thousand people who stood and watched the 

 race looked like a solid mass of humanity. At 1 o'clock the 

 track was a sea of mud, but after an hour's working it had 



