Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1902 — WYETH THE WINNER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WYETH THE WINNER.

Chicano Colt Triumphs in Fifteenth American Derby. Winner of race Wyeth Name of jockey L. A. Lyue Owner of winner John A. Drake Time of winner 2:40 1-5 Value of stake to winner $20,125 Betting odds 10-1 down to 8-1 Number of starters ...... .Twelve Condition of track Slow Attendance 68,000 Money wagered (estimated) $500,000 Weather Eair and cool With the favorites of the East trailing behind him in a defeated squad, Wyeth, John A. Drake's Chicago colt, won the fifteenth American Derby at Washington Park, Chicago. Saturday. A heavy track, a clear sky, 08.000 people breathless in expectancy, two minutes forty seconds and a fraction, which tested the work of months, a jockey, who trusted t>V‘ winning of the race entirely to his horse—and Wyeth. That was the Derby. That the favorites should have one brief moment of seeming triumph; that out of the closely huddled inass of fleet horses should come one despised and rejected by the bettors; that this one should cross the line a winner, fought to the last by another rejected by the ’‘wise”— these are Derby traditions, and they held good. Seated on the rejected horse was a jockey who, also, as his mount, was dubbed “an outsider.” With horses like Heno, Pentecost, Arsenal, Otis and

Belle's Commoner in the race, it had been said Wyeth could not win; with jockeys like O'Connor, McCue and Bullman in the saddle it bad been said Dyne could not win. That was the oracular statement of those who knew. It was ths “impossible'’ that happened. Every Derby winner gets applause, of course, but the yell that went up for Wyeth and Lyne was not to any appreciable extent the yell of men who had made money and who were shouting because they had. It was not the shout that would have gone up if any of five other horses had won. For Lyne it meant the floral saddle after he had raised his whip to the judges. For Trainer Enoch Wishard. who also has charge of nil of Mr. Drake's horses in England, it meant a cheek for #IO,OOO which Mrz Drake signed ami presented to him as soon as he could get away from the congratulations of his friends. For Mr. Drake himself it meant, aside from the honor, something like $50,000, It is claimed, purse, b< ts and all. For the Washington Park Club it meant that for the first time in its history a member had won the American Derby. John A. Drake, owner of the Derby winner Wyeth and the first member of the Washington Park Club to secure the coveted prize, declared afterward that Wyeth’s performance was. only what he had expected of the horse before the race. “I believe that Wyeth is the greatest horse in the world.” he said, “and that his subsequent performances will justify my statement. He won the Derby because. he was unquestionably the best horse’entered, and one of my great ambitions has been justified. I shall keep Wyeth, his rider and his trainer. "The glory of winning the race is all the reward 1 care for. I do not even care for the largo purse. Immediately after the race 1 gave SIO,OOO out of the purse to my trainer, Enoch Wishard. to whose ability, primarily, the winning of the nice by Wyeth is due.” C. W. Munn, traveling freight agent of the Union Pacific road, has investigated and reports that there are 4.780 acres planted to potatoes in the Knw bottoms between Kansas City and Lawrence. The prospects for n large yield of fine potatoes are uow excellent.'

IN THE INFIELD.