Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1898 — PINK COAT WINS. [ARTICLE]

PINK COAT WINS.

The Leonatus Colt Takes the American Derby at Chicago. Pink Coat is a double Derby winner. Saturday afternoon at Washington Park, Chicago, the Leonatus colt trained by Pat Dunne and ridden by Willie Martin, flashed under the wire in the American Derby a winner at odds of 4 to 1, with Warrenton, W. T. Oliver’s candidate, but a nose behind. Isabey secured third money, four lengths behind Warrenton. Mirthful, the 6 to 5 favorite, fourth, with the rest of the field strung out’. The Derby was run over a slow track, and a heavy wind was blowing up the stretch. The time —2:42^4 — under these conditions, was very good. The race itself was a pretty contest from start to finish. There were nine starters, Bradley scratching Traverser and Foster adding Eva Rice. Thirty thousand people cheered Martin as he came under the wire a nose in front of WaPrenton, stalling off the latter’s furious drive down the strdteh. Martin called on his mount three furlongs from home and he drew away from the field apparently an easy winner. Mirthful shut up like a clam when pinched, but-Caywood made one of his stretch rides and it was nip and tuck the last sixteenth, Martin’s riding landing the horse a winner.