lbs.,
A. Clayton 2

Cushing & Orth's br c Boundless, 3, by Harry O'Fallon, Endless;
122 lbs., R. Williams 3

Scoggan Bros.' ch c Buck McCann, 3, by Buchanan, Mollie McCann;
122 lbs., Thorpe 4

James E. Pepper's ch c Mirage, 3, by imp. Deceiver, Uproar; 122
lbs., I. Murphy 5

C. E. Railey's ch c Linger, 3, by King Alfonso, Wait-a-While; 122
lbs., Flynn 6

Won easily by five lengths in 2:39-1/4, same between second and third. The
stake was worth $4,090 to the winner.

Betting--7 to 10 Cushing & Orth's entry, 3 to 1 Plutus, 4 to 5 place.

TWENTIETH DERBY 1894

It was Derby Day at Churchill Downs this afternoon, and the enclosure was
crowded as it had not been for a long time previous. It was an ideal
racing day, the hard rain of the morning thoroughly laying the dust. The
rain made the track just a bit slow but this was more than compensated in
the absence of dust. The good people of the Falls City were hungry to see
a race and they turned out in large numbers, irrespective of color, class
or circumstances. A free field made it possible for those who were unable
to pay the price of admission to see the racing at little or no cost at
all. There was an immense crowd in the infield, and the fence from the
head of the stretch to the clubhouse turn was lined with a dense mass of
humanity, each moity of which was struggling to either gain or maintain
his position.

The Derby of 1894 had not about it quite that glamour and fascination that
has characterized several former contests for this event perhaps because
there was no horse in it of particularly high-class, and of such
individual prominence as to attract and absorb public attention for weeks
prior to the race, which reaches the public thru the medium of the press.
Horses are something like men in that some of them possess a kind of
magnetism that draws around them a coterie of admirers, who become as much
infatuated with him as does the most ardent admirers of a political
leader. Such a horse was Proctor Knott, and never before nor since in the
West, was as much written about and as much attention paid to a horse as
was to him. The press teemed with articles about him from