. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. ©jje gvetfrsv mxb §v#vt#ntixtu. t/tTLT 2, 1898 TBE AMERICAN DERBY. Pink Ooat Wins the Classic at Oh'.oago With Willi© Martin in the Saddle. Two weeks afier winning the St. Louis Derby and defeat- ing the speedy Plaudit and Bannockburn, Fink Coat, eon of Leonatus and Alice Brand by Hindoo, captured the Ameri- can Derby at Chicago with 127 lbs on his back, the heaviest weight ever carried by a winner of that classic race. \^ ar- rentoo, whose dam is also the great grandam of Pink Coat was only a nose behind. Isabey secured third money, four lengths behind Warren-
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. ©jje gvetfrsv mxb §v#vt#ntixtu. t/tTLT 2, 1898 TBE AMERICAN DERBY. Pink Ooat Wins the Classic at Oh'.oago With Willi© Martin in the Saddle. Two weeks afier winning the St. Louis Derby and defeat- ing the speedy Plaudit and Bannockburn, Fink Coat, eon of Leonatus and Alice Brand by Hindoo, captured the Ameri- can Derby at Chicago with 127 lbs on his back, the heaviest weight ever carried by a winner of that classic race. \^ ar- rentoo, whose dam is also the great grandam of Pink Coat was only a nose behind. Isabey secured third money, four lengths behind Warren- ton. Mirthful, the 6-to 5 favorite, finished fourth, with the rest of the field strung oat. The Derby was run over a slow track and a heavy wind was blowing up the stretch. Thirty thousand people witnessed the race. At the start Warreoton showed half a leogth in front of Bannockburn, with Isabey and the others closely bunched. Eva Rice, with Tommy Barns in the saddle, shot to the front and set the pace, passing the stand the first time. Bannock- burn and Mirthful were close up, while Martin on Pink Coat was last by several lengths. After six furlongs had been covered Littlefield let down the favorite's head and he went to the front, running easily and opening up a gap of two lengths. Martin, in the mean- time, bad joined issues with the bunch and was overhauling the leaders one by one. Cavwood was taking matters leis- urely with Oliver's candidate, Warrenton, while Bannock- burn seemed to have something left. It was Mirthful all the way to the nine-furlong pole. Piok Coat, Warrenton and lsabev, who had been slow to get in motion, attending him. Martin called on bis mount three furlongs from home aod be drew away from the field, ap- parently an easy winner. Mirthful shut up like a clam when pinched, but Ciywood made one of his stretch rides with Warreoton,and it was nip and tuck to the last sixteenth, Martin's riding landing bis horse a winner. Pink Coat inherits his racing
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