rchased by his present trainer, Charles T. Patterson for C. K. G.
Billings and Frederick Johnson at Newmarket, September 15, 1915, for
$1,500. Omar Khayyam's sire Marco won the Cambridgeshire, etc., and is the
sire of Neil Gow, Beppo, Marcovil, Malua, Bembo, Mirador, Sansovino, and
other good horses.

Omar Khayyam, named for the great Persian poet and astronomer, is the
first foreign-bred colt to win a Kentucky Derby. His owners are Frederick
Johnson, a broker, in New York and C. K. G. Billings, owner of the famous
trotters Uhlan, Lou Dillon and Major Delmar and it is his second season as
a thoroughbred owner. Mr. Johnson saw his colt win but Mr. Billings was
unable to enjoy seeing the victory.

Trainer C. T. Patterson said before the race: "I never trained a horse in
which I had more confidence than Omar Khayyam, and I handled Hamburg and
Ornament."

FORTY-FOURTH DERBY 1918

In the presence of the greatest crowd that ever thronged Churchill Downs
and over a track fetlock deep in mud, Willis Sharpe Kilmer's chestnut
gelding Exterminator, saddled by Henry McDaniel, and capably ridden by W.
Knapp, scored an easy victory over seven other good three-year olds in the
forty-fourth running of the Kentucky Derby this afternoon. Kenneth D.
Alexander's crack Broomstick colt, Escoba, ridden by Joe Notter, finished
second, a length back of the winner and eight lengths in front of Viva
America, the only filly that started in the race. A. K. Macomber's
imported War Cloud, a heavy favorite in the speculation and which would
have paid a little less than three to two, had he won, was never a serious
factor and finished fourth, beaten all of the way.

The winner was given but scant consideration by the bettors, being the
least regarded of the eight that made up the field after Aurum and Jim
Heffering had been withdrawn. Exterminator paid his backers the handsome
odds of nearly thirty to one and in winning upset all calculations and
brought consternation to the ranks of the form players, who went to War
Cloud with rare confidence.

It was after five o'clock when the bugle called the horses to the post for
the Derby, in which a big surprise was in store for the spectators. Every
inch of space in clubhouse and grandstand was taken, while a solid mass of
humanity lined the lawns a quarter of a mile long, extending from
clubhouse to the quarter pole, almost to the head of the homestretch. The
procession of eight sleek thoroughbr