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Show FAST ONES II S20,flQ0 DERBY Fourteen of World's Best -year-olds Likely to Start in Today's Event. LOmSVILLE, Ky., May 9. Fourteen of the best three-yea.r-olds on the American Amer-ican turf have been named to start tomorrow to-morrow in the forty-fifth renewal of the Kentucky derby at Churchill Downs. The race at a mile and a quarter will carrv $20,000 In added monev and be worth approximately ap-proximately $25,000, making it the richest stake of the year in the United States. The struggle 1s expected to be one of the hardest ever fought In a Kentucky derby, and the indications are that the crowd which will witness it will be of record-breaking derby proportions. Owing to rain today, the prospects were, for a slow track. The entries, according to their post positions, po-sitions, weights and Jockeys, announced today, follow, although additional entries may be made up to within 45 aninules of post time: Horse and Jockey. Weight Sir Barton (Lor'tus) n'i Be Frank (Butwcll) 119 Vindex (Knapp) Corson (Huntt -w St. Bernard (Pool) jiq Eternal (Scbuttinger) ' jo; Vulcanite (Burke) iy- Under Fire (Garner) Sennlng's Parle (Connelly) '"'i'- Regalo (Murphv) ' ' 117 Sailor (Kobinson) 519 Clermont (Hanover) Billy Kelly (Saude) ll'l Frogtown (Morys) 119 Despite prospects of a "h'eavv" course. Eternal, owned b J. W. McClelland of Lexington. Ky., the choice of the west gave promise of going to the post the favorite fa-vorite In tho pari-mutuel betting Billv Kelly, defeated by F.ternal bv a head in a match race last year, and Sir Barton the entry of Commander J. K. I,. Uuss. the Canadian sportsman, apparently will bo the main dependence of the east Harry Payne Whitney's Vlndev has a large eastern following. He finished his training Thursday with a mile n id 1 Srtls-OJM 5:04 4"5' The clcrb-v rce-, rce-, Possibly most fancied among so-called dark horses are Be Frank, fiognlo (which will be the only filly to start) Under Un-der I' Ire and Frogtown. |