Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-21 | Page 7 | English Lad First Choice in Derby

ENGLISH LAD FIRST CHOICE IN DERBY One of the Richest Three-Year-Old Races In tho West Will Be Run This Afternoon at Chicago. CHICAGO, May 20. Fourteoon of tho original nominations, which numbered num-bered eighty, aro listed to start In tho Chicago Derby, to bo run at the opening of Hawthorne tomorrow. Outside Out-side of the American Derby, tho Chicago Derby Is the richest race for three-year-olds In the West, and some of the be3t colts that havo faced tho barrier will run. Indications aro that It will bo English Lad who will go to tho post favorite, his odds tonight being 3 to 1. Proceeds Is next at C to 1, while tho othor twelve aro strung out at from 8 to 1 to 30 to 1. Of the fourteen horses carded to start thcro arc but two that ever had their heads In front of English Lad when tho wlro was reached. Tho two nro Flower-King Flower-King nnd Prlnco Silver Wings.. Flower King Is the dark horso In the race, us ho has never won. Among the other contestants contest-ants aro Moharlb. winner of the Kansas City Derby: Proceeds, winner of tho Ten-nessoo Ten-nessoo Derby, Bill Curtis, winner of tho Ascot Derby; Ralnlnnds, winner of tho Cumberland Dorby, and Elwood, winner of tho Kentucky and Latonhi Derbies. If tho track Is faat Proceeds will probably be scratched. Following aro tho entries for tho raco at a mile and a quarters, with weights, probable Jockeys and odds: English Lnd. 122, Nichols or J. T. Shee-han, Shee-han, 3 to 1- Proceeds, 127, Holgeson, C to 1; Flower King. 112. Henry, 8 to 1; Elwood, 127 Prior. 8 to 1; Moharlb, 127, Fuller. 10 to 1' Merry Pioneer, 117. Flnloy. 10 to 1; Alayor D. S. Rose, 112, 30 to 1; Ralnlands. 122. Larson. 15 to 1; Qua Straus, 112, Wilson, Wil-son, 10 to 1; Argregsshlro. 112. Mclntyre. 30 to 1; Prlnco Silverwlngs, 117, Robblns, 15 to 1; Military Man. 117, Prior, 10 to 1: Peter J. Somers.,112, Shorwood, 30 to 1; Bill Curtis. Cur-tis. 119, 30 to 1. '