of average good size
and much quality, with a superior way of going. He is very sightly in
appearance and has a perfect track disposition.

He was bred in Mercer County, Kentucky, at the Fountainbue Stud of Chinn &
Forsythe, and was sold at a fall sale of yearlings at the Latonia track
for $1,600, being the second highest priced yearling sold at that time. Ed
McBride, at that sale, left considerable money with Lou Tauber to buy
three yearlings, one of these was George Smith, another was Tom Elwood,
and the other was Eddie Henry, both of which have won stake races for
McBride.

SUMMARY

May 13, 1916. Track fast. $10,000 added. Value to winner $9,750, second
$2,000, third $1,000. Time 22-2/5, 46-2/5, 1.12-1/5, 1.38-4/5, 2.04.

George Smith, 117, J. Loftus 1
Star Hawk, 117, W. Lilley 2
Franklin, 117, T. Rice 3

Dodge, 117, F. Murphy; Thunderer, 117, T. McTaggart; The Cock, 110, M.
Garner; Dominant, 117, J. Notter; Kinney, 117, L. Gentry; Lena Misha, 117,
E. Dugan.

Winner black colt, by Out-of Reach--Consuelo II. Owned by John Sanford.
Trained by H. Hughes.

FORTY-THIRD DERBY 1917

Mindful still of the war time, but mindful more of the play time--of
Kentucky's great play day of the May time--35,000 citizens of everywhere
came from the high and low places of earth to-day to make Derby Day in
Louisville what Derby Day always had been.

When a Maytime sun flushes the bluegrass of Churchill Downs, dapples the
satin coats of thoroughbreds and touches to brilliancy the brave green and
gold of paddock, lawn and infield, when a hawthornscented breeze, straight
from the wooded hills of Jacob Park, ripples the gleaming folds of
"Old Glory," when Senators and Governors, multi-millionaires and
internationally famous beauties foregather for the running of the Derby,
when the motion picture cameras are licking, when the bands are playing,
and the bugles sounding "Boots and Saddles," it is time to heed Omar's
advice:

"Come, fill the cup, and in the fire of spring
Your winter garment of repentance fling!"

There were, indeed, no "winter garments of repentance" in evidence at the
Down to-day but instead such Far Eastern colors, such vivid touches of
Chinese red and jade green, such oriental embroideries, such swirling
military capes and coats that had their inspiration in the army as to
convert the Downs into a picture that suggested some vast canvas by
Velasquez.

The wise man