Sport: At Churchill Downs

"Beat Bradley and take the pot" is one of Louisville's axioms for the Kentucky Derby. Col. Edward Riley Bradley, who makes his money out of his Palm Beach Casino and breeds his racehorses at Idle Hour Farm, near Louisville, had, from 1920 up to last week, won the Derby three times and finished in the money two other times. Last week the axiom seemed a little less pertinent than usual. Col. Bradley's Burgoo King won a year ago but this year his only entrant was a horse called Broker's Tip who had failed...

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