There is one man in England today who is less ambitious than formerly, and he is Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, winner of the 145th Derby -by grace of the three-year-old "mud horse," Sansovino, and
Jockey T. Weston. For years Lord Derby has let it be known that he cherished two ambitions: 1) to be Premier; 2) to win the Derby. With the first he has not yet finished; with the second "his cares are now all ended." The day was wet and forbidding. Great crowds of hundreds of thousands...
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