AMERICA'S MANY DERBIES
Derbies are as numerous in America as they are in Australia. Hollywood Park (Inglewood) had its Derby on July 8, and the winner was Shining One, a son of Twink and Oonagh, dam of that good horse Pompoon. In running the mile and a quarter in 2min 4 4-ssec, he equalled Seabiscuit's record for the track. There were 10 starters. Another rich stake decided last month was the Arlington Park (Chicago) Lassie Stakes, the most valuable stake in America for two-year-old fillies. The winner turned up in Mr. A. G. Vanderbilt's Now What, who, with 51b penalty, was conceding weight to everything else in the race. She ran the six furlongs in lmin 13sec, but as the weather was fine and the track fast, that was nothing out of the ordinary, even though she carried 8.10.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 70, 20 September 1939, Page 13
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