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the huge bouquet of American Beauty roses and also tendered 

 his congratulations to Messrs. Weir and Applegate, the joint 

 owners of the winner. 



Old Rosebud, the winner, was bred by J. E. Madden at 

 Hamburg Place. His sire, Uncle, was bred by Col. E. F. Clay 

 and his breeding partner, Catesby Woodford, in Bourbon County, 

 and his dam, Ivory Bells, was bred by E. S. Gardner at Avondale 

 Stud, in Tennessee. She is by Himyar, the sire of Domino, and 

 out of the wonderful race mare Ida Pickwick, by Mr. Pickwick. 

 The latter horse is a son of the English Derby winner Hermit. 

 The next dam was Ida K., by King Alfonso, she being the dam 

 of Indigo, that produced the Suburban Handicap winner, Go 

 Between. 



Old Rosebud was purchased, along with four yearling fillies, 

 in the season of 1912, by H. C. Applegate & Co., for $3,000. He 

 won his first race, the Yucatan Stakes, at Juarez, Mexico, in 

 the winter of 1913, and also won another race at that track 

 before being brought to Kentucky last spring. Little Nephew, 

 also by Uncle, is the only horse that ever beat Old Rosebud 

 in a race. 



Last year the Derby winner won twelve of his fourteen starts. 

 He ran three most remarkable races as a two-year old at 

 Douglas Park, first winning at five furlongs in 0:58 4/5, again 

 in 0:58 3/5 and again 0:58 2/5. In all of these races he beat his 

 old rival, Little Nephew. He has only started once before this 

 season, that being a mile race at Lexington, which he won with 

 ease. That race was intended as a preliminary trial for his 

 Derby race to-day, and it must be admitted that it brought him 

 to the post in the Derby in the very pink of condition. The 

 great gelding was trained by F. D. Weir, who is famous in turf 



