At 7 o'clock the evening before the 60th annual running of the Kentucky Derby in Louisville last week, fire broke out in stables U and W at Churchill Downs. The barns were destroyed, a few horses ran wild in the infield, but none of the 19 high-strung Derby entries was much disturbed. Throughout the night, Derby guests continued their yearly romp, the less restrained firing the annual barrage of empty bottles into the court of the Brown Hotel in spite of the fact that Kentucky is now wet and liquor is sold by the...
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