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Show oo KING OF TURFDOM RIDES PALACE CAR LOUISVILLE. Ky .. May 16. (By the Associated Press.! Traveling in state as befits the king of turfdom. Benjamin Block's Morvich. w inner of the 1922 Kentucky derby, '.eft Sunday Sun-day in a palace ear de luxe for New York. The unbeaten son of Runny-mode Runny-mode suffered no 111 effects from his victory over the crack three-year-old horses of the country and was In fine fettle, according to his attendant-- Morvich's victory Saturday over Coler Bradley's Bet Mosie, Colonel F. Baker' John Finn and six other" brought his total of purses earned io 1162,000, exclusive of the $7ooo gold service awarded to Mr. Block by thp Kentucky Jockey club. The net value j of the derby to the w inner w an $40.-TTj. $40.-TTj. and with the extra prize Increasing In-creasing it to $53,775 it became the largest amount even won in one race in the United States by a three-year old horse- |