Show 1 MOST FAMOUS HORSE i iRACE RACE IN WORLD GIVE CIVES WAY TO EUROPE'S W A Great International Derby Which lj Been Run Annually Without Break for Years Canceled 1 LONDON June 1 Announcement l.-Announcement has been made n th that annual race for the Derby which was to have been run m toS to tom at Epsom Downs was declared off dM by the stewards of the J j club on account of the war When the Sub Jockey club a at ft the r t- t of the war office last week decided to suspend all V racing ex ex Newmarket it was believed the Derby the Oaks theSA the St. St Leg Lege some other historic transferred races might be transferred from Ep i ps r Doncaster ter to Ne Newmarket arket but the final ruling relative to the theD indicates that all the turf classics save those always run runa at heath will go by the board for this year at least It is the h he blow that has befallen horse racing in England since the more than two hundred and fifty years ago The Derby is easily the moil mt f i horse race in the world and andl it of the oldest as well Eta I 1780 it has been run for U 13 without a break until 1915 it ft no means the richest race in I E Ei its average value to the tho vein r. r ing a little more than the ti-se Princess of Wales stal M 1 ardi Jockey club stakes s s at Ne are each worth at II a v vother are are- other fixtures at other count Coure j most from its Derby came to be td i greatest race of the tho year ard sr Uli it never lost caste despite te the thc i tion of larger prizes Thousands of Spectators Spectator i 1 It draws a n. far ar larger crowd crow t tany t tan an any oth other r turf contest In the w wc hundreds i of thousands of ot jp I going out to the tile U dowes Iron from L don and the provinces though Ct of them never neve actual see ne th the r f Derby day Is really a a. national cival Ui val and It U might almost almOt be ca called since horses homs ar are J I from Crom Franco France and the United d cyer every year tar to run for tor the bi blue I Ibon bon of oC the tho tur turf and hors horsemen m mall I II all over o tt t world Journey to toto Eto I Ito to see the contest Millions of dollars are ai arm wagered on tho the result and r mill milD millmore more are poured out In trying or breed a winner of the gratZ t Continued on page ra 21 2 MOST FAMOUS HOR HORSE E Continued from Crom snort port nage Henry Chaplin M. M P. P who wrote aletter n. n letter to tho the Times Time the other day elny pro pro- abandonment 0 01 against the this and other field events on t the c would cr cripP PP 0 ground ro that to do so 50 homo horno breeding interests anti and indi md indirectly Indi- Indi remounts re ro remounts re- re of or suitable tho production won J more oro mounts for the cavalry titan than when his horse hermit 1 came homo first in 1867 United yearling thoroughbreds have been and 1 even n sold for as much as nn each ench to wealthy whoso whose chief chic object In buying th them m wa was to win tho tIme Derby Command Fabulous Prices Such Is the prestige of winning that the successful often otten commands or more for Cor stud purposes Flying Fox tho the Derby winner of 1899 was sold old by auction In iii Mardi March 1900 for Cor 1800 tho the highest price on rec rec- ord tho thu winner winnel in 1886 brought Breeders look Jool to tho the Derby winners to carry tom forward tho thu fashionable and successful srul sire lines in imi tho the propagation of or the time thoroughbreds thor thor- and such horses as Flying Fox Ormonde and Hock Roche Snail Sand readily command stud fe foes fees of or 2000 or more as soon as ns retired from the turf tnt Numerous American have sent horses to England to try for Cor tho great prize pi-izo in the last sixty years ears Of these oni only four four Pierre Pierre William C. C Whitney Richard Croker and Herman B. B Duryea were successful success success- ful fu and Mr Ir Lorillard alone succeeded In winning with an nn American bred horse His Ills winner was whose victory in 1881 caused a sensation here and in Sn the United States Mr Whitney won in 1901 with Volo yo ski whose racing qualities ho had leased Mr Croker bred his own winner winner win win- ner Orby whoso whose dam ho brought from America but the colt was foaled in Ireland in 1904 Mr Duryea won In 1914 1911 with Dunbar II from an American bred dam but not bred In Amen America Ca Tho The first Derby winner Inner Sir Charles Bunbury's DIomed was exported to tho United States and there UHre founded time the racing family from Crom which came Sir Arch Archy Sir Charles Ills His Henry Boston oston Levington ton and ancl man many other great horses of or the olden time Other famous Derby winners sent to America America Amer Amer- ica Priam 1830 St. St Blaise 1883 Ormonde 1886 and Rock Sand 1903 |