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hills of Jacob Park, ripples the gleaming folds of "Old Glory," 

 when Senators and Governors, multi-millionaires and interna- 

 tionally famous beauties foregather for the running of the 

 Derby, when the motion picture cameras are licking, when the 

 bands are playing, and the bugles sounding "Boots and Saddles," 

 it is time to heed Omar's advice: 



"Come, fill the cup, and in the fire of spring 

 Your winter garment of repentance fling!" 



There were, indeed, no "winter garments of repentance" in 

 evidence at the Down to-day but instead such Far Eastern 

 colors, such vivid touches of Chinese red and jade green, such 

 oriental embroideries, such swirling military capes and coats 

 that had their inspiration in the army as to convert the Downs 

 into a picture that suggested some vast canvas by Velasquez. 



The wise man who once declared that "four things greater 

 than all things are : Women and horses and power and war" 

 would have found his dictum translated into living proof to-day, 

 for added to the beauty of the women who graced the Downs, 

 added to the fleetness of the satin-coated horses, and the power 

 that is Kentucky, there was the suggestion of patriotism that 

 can only translate itself in war. The olive-drab of the First 

 Kentucky Infantry formed a fitting background for the striking 

 picture presented by clubhouse lawn, verandas and boxes. "Old 

 Glory" rippled and fluttered and the notes of the bugle stirred 

 the immense throng to one single impulse of patriotism. The 

 feeling that if fate should decree that on the next Derby days 

 some of "ooir boys" should be in France, and nearer Longchamps 

 than Churchill Downs, that Kentucky will be sure to "place 

 a wager for them" instead of "turning down an empty glass," 

 was everywhere expressed. 



