124 HISTORY OF THE 



He was bred in Mercer County, Kentucky, at the Fountainbue 

 Stud of Chinn & Forsythe, and was sold at a fall sale of yearlings 

 at the Latonia track for $1,600, being the second highest priced 

 yearling sold at that time. Ed McBride, at that sale, left con- 

 siderable money with Lou Tauber to buy three yearlings, one 

 of these was George Smith, another was Tom Elwood, and the, 

 other was Eddie Henry, both of which have won stake races 

 for McBride. 



SUMMARY 



May 13, 1916. Track fast. $10,000 added. Value to winner 

 $9,750, second $2,000, third $1,000. Time 22 2/5, 462/5, 1.121/5, 

 1.38 4/5, 2.04. 



George Smith, 117, J. Loftus 1 



Star Hawk, 117, W. Lilley 2 



Franklin, 117, T. Rice 3 



Dodge, 117, F. Murphy; Thunderer, 117, T. McTaggart; The 

 Cock, 110, M. Garner; Dominant, 117, J. Notter ; Kinney, 117, 

 L. Gentry; Lena Misha, 117, E. Dugan. 



Winner black colt, by Out-of Reach — Consuelo II. Owned 

 by John San ford. Trained by H. Hughes. 



FORTY-THIRD DERBY 1917 



Mindful still of the war time, but mindful more of the play 

 time — of Kentucky's great play day of the May time — 35,000 

 citizens of everywhere came from the high and low places of 

 earth to-day to make Derby Day in Louisville what Derby Day 

 always had been. 



When a Maytime sun flushes the bluegrass of Churchill 

 Downs, dapples the satin coats of thoroughbreds and touches 

 to brilliancy the brave green and gold of paddock, lawn and 

 infield, when a hawthornscented breeze, straight from the wooded 



