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Show OLD ROSEBUD MAKES 1 NEW MARK IN DERBY By International News Service. LOUISVLULB, Ky May 9. Old Rosebud, Rose-bud, champion -year-old of 1913, added further laurels to his crown this afternoon when, he won the fortieth Kentucky derby from a grand field of 3-year-olds, running the mile and a quarter In the wonderful time of 2:0S 2-5. a new record for the race. The game little son of Uncle was only, gralloping at the end. Jockey McCabe had taken him up and was watching the battle for second place between Hodge and Bronze "Wins, the latter landing1 in third place. The race of Old Rosebud stamps him as the most wonderful three-year-old of recent vears - Out of sixteen starts he has been beaten a head twice. Today he was manv pounds the best in tho race and despite the fact that the track was slow and a bit sticky ho ran the most phenomenal mile and a quarter in the historv of racing In Kentucky. Four out of the eleven candidates which were named to start declined the Issue. At all times Old Rosebud was an odds-on odds-on favorite. At the break McCabe took his mount to the front and he was never headrcJ. ; Hp pulled up In grand style and was given the greatest ovation a thoroughbred has ever received at Churchill Down?. The fnnmre of the band was drowned in the 1 cbeert:. wliU.h lasted throughout the placing of a great wreath of American Beauties about the neck of the winner. The ride Jockey McCabe gave Old Rosebud Rose-bud was perfect. He never let his contenders con-tenders get close enougli to hurry or bump his mount. The -10,000 who saw the race were convinced con-vinced that Old Rosebud is. the best three-vcai three-vcai nVi reared in Kentucky since the day of Colin. The future books were all hit hard by the victory of Oh Rosebud. Bookmakers had laid 4, 5 and 6 to 1 agulnst his chances of winning, and thousands of dollars was pont'-d m upon them during the past two months. Ros"bi:d'f price in ihe mutuels was S3 to 100, and such a mob' fought around the machines' that the race was delayed over h:i 1 '' "-in hou r. The last race of the day was not run until neaily o'clock. |