te & 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 annals of other days as the trainer of
Roseben, one of the champion sprinters of all time.

"This was surely a great day, and the Kentucky Derby this season eclipses
all records," said President Charles F. Grainger. "Old Rosebud and Hodge
are two three-year olds the like of which perhaps never met in a Derby
race. To beat a performer like Hodge as handily as he did to-day makes Old
Rosebud one of the champion three-year olds of all time. Hodge beat the
previous Derby record for a mile and a quarter as well as Old Rosebud, and
the race was run over a track more than a second slow. Had the Downs
course been at its fastest undoubtedly Old Rosebud would have beaten the
world's record for the Kentucky Derby distance on a circular track had he
been pushed."

Judge Charles F. Price stated that he had never seen a greater day of
racing. "There was not a single happening to mar the great pleasure of the
afternoon, and the Derby of 1914 was the most remarkable race ever run in
the long history of this classic event," said the presiding official. "It
was not only a track record for the Downs, but it was a remarkable race in
every particular and wonderful to relate, the two starts of the contest,
Old Rosebud and Hodge, are both geldings. It is questionable if in a
life-time two such horses as these three-year olds will be seen in any
Derby race together."

SUMMARY

Saturday, May 9, 1914. Track good. Derby 1 and 1/4 mile. $10,000 added,
value to winner $9,125. For 3-year olds. Time 1:38-4/5, 2:03-2/5.

Old Rosebud, 114, McCabe 1