Show the home am Is Bs familiar liar IN BY FELIX X B D K M AN S and ELMO SCOTT WATSON WATSO N the derby WHETHER youre referring to a race run at epsom downs in england or at churchill downs in kentucky and whether you pronounce it derby or darby it adds up to the same thing viz every time you use that word youre perpetuating the name of a sporting english nobleman the twelfth earl of derby away back in 1780 1730 the earl offered a prize of 50 gold sovereigns in a sweepstakes race for three year old colts this race was called the epsom derby race in honor of the donor of the prize r fan and the place where it was run epsom in surrey the famous diomed owned by earl of derby sir C bunbury won the first f epsom derby race and it until 1787 that one of the earls colts sir peter beazle came in f first more than years were to pass before another derby family entry would win again that was San sovino in 1924 in the meantime this race had become the most famous in english turf history gradually the br british ibish horsemen dropped two words from its name and it became THE derby meanwhile too the idea had crossed the atlantic and the kentucky derby run annually near louisville is ky and the american derby at washington park in chicago were the result since then weve had a variety of derbies cant you just imagine the twelfth earl coming back as a ghost and exclaiming eh what a bunion derby and a soap box derby my word you americans ARE a queer lot prince albert VICTORIA of england Q QUEEN left her name on history as the synonym for propriety and respectability but her royal consort is remembered it if at all by the name of a coat yet that thai is not inappropriate for what man does not take on dignity and dhar character acter as a prominent catiz citizen en when he dons a prince albert on february 10 1840 the yoi youthful ith queen of england was married to her cousin albert 1 I 1 prince of saxe coburg and gotha second son of the then reigning duke and not the least of the distinctions of her V e long reign is the exalted confidence and concord that marked her relations with her husband As prince consort of the monarch of the great prince albert est empire in the world prince albert shunned ostentation and sank his own existence in that of his wife and yet all the time he was a positive and recognized influence not only in the family circle but in the state for it was he who was chiefly responsible for the great exhibition held in the crystal palace in london in 1851 thus in addition to being remembered tor for the style of coat which he made popular he might be written down in history a as s the father of the worlds fa fair ir released by western newspaper union |