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has no taint of the coward, such as that of the colt that labors four
lengths behind them. Azra is on the inside, and Britton has pinned him so
close that Clayton can not use his whip. The boys knees must touch as the
two colts race head and head. The crowd goes wild. Men yell the name,
first of one and then the other. But for a moment the cries of "Azra, Azra
wins," drown the others. He is drawing away. Clayton is climbing up on his
neck and working like a demon. At the eighth pole he is almost a neck in
front of Huron. The race seems over, Huron, after setting the pace
throughout, surely can not come again. But he does! Britton has never
ceased work on him, and at one bound lifts him back once more head to
head. But that is all. The two are straining every muscle, the last link
of speed is out in each, but as the fiery nostrils of the racers see-saw
past each other with the swaying of the outstretched necks only for an
instant is first Azra's and Huron's nose ahead. Not a whip is raised.
Hands are too precious. Britton is riding vigorously, but Clayton is
outdoing him. Can not he lift his mount just an inch or two to the front?
The wire is there above them. Ten thousand people are yelling and Clayton
puts out his supreme effort. It succeeds! Azra has won. Right on the post
he gains six inches, no more, and by that distance stands the winner of
the Kentucky Derby of 1892. It is a grand race, and victor and loser alike
are cheered to the echo by the excited crowd. The value of the stake was
$4,230.

The Kentucky Derby for three-year olds, foals of 1889; $100 entrance, half
forfeit; $10 if declared on or before May 1, 1891, $20 if declared on or
before May 1, 1892; money to accompany declarations; with $2,500 added, of
which $300 to second and $150 to third. 1-1/2 miles. 3 starters. 68
subscribers.

Bashford Manor's b c Azra, by Reform, Albia; 122 lbs., Clayton 1

Ed. Corrigan's b c Huron, by Iroquois, Brunette; 122 lbs., Britton 2

Ed. Corrigan's b c Phil Dwyer, by Longfellow, imp. Encore; 122 lbs.,
Overton 3

Fractional time--:25-1/4, :51-1/2, 1:17-3/4, 1:45-1/4, 2:12, 2:41-1/2

Betting--3 to 2 Azra, 20 to 11 Corrigan's pair.

NINETEENTH DERBY 1893

Never since the Spokane-Proctor Knott Derby, in 1889, was there such a
crowd gathered at Churchill Downs as that to-day.

The weather and the far-famed Kentucky Derby w