"Clayton goes to the whip at the eighth pole and again Ornament comes forward from under punishment. He is nearing Typhoon. What is that boy Garner going to do? Every ounce in Typhoon is out! If Garner has not a wonderfully cool head he will drop the rein and lift the whip. He does not do it. He looks straight ahead. He is climbing forward on the leader's withers coaxing him on, coaxing him always on. Typhoon is all out, but Ornament, too is staggering a length back and the wire is overhead. "Ornament is gaining, gaining at every jump, running from the whip, ready to go on until he drops. But Typhoon, with that same steam-engine action with which he gained his lead, is holding it. The wire is reached. Garner is still climbing and coaxing, Ornament is still fighting a neck back, and Typhoon II., is winner of the Kentucky Derby of 1897." For three-year-olds (foals of 1894); $5 to accompany the nomination; $15 to be paid May 1, 1896; $30 to be paid March 1, 1897; $100 additional to start. The club to guarantee the value of the stakes to be $6,000, of which $700 to second and $300 to third. Colts to carry 122 pounds; geldings (at time of starting), 119 pounds; fillies, 117 pounds. Those not having won a three-year-old race of the value of $1,500, allowed five pounds; maidens ten pounds. One mile and a quarter. Closed with 159 nominations. One mile and a quarter. Index Starters Jockeys St. 1/2 3/4 S. F. Betting (325) Typhoon II, 117 Garner 1 1 3 1 2 1 2 1 h 11 to 5 (186) Ornament, 117 A. Clayton 5 2 2 2 6 2 8 2 25 7 to 5 (404) Dr. Catlett, 117 R. Williams 6 4 1 4 8 4 10 3 4 4 to 1 Dr. Shepard, 117 J. Hill 4 3 4 3 6 3-1/2 4 30 15 to 1 (336) Goshen, 117 Wilhite 2 6 6 6 5 15 to 1 (284) Ben Brown, 117 Ballard 3 5 3 5 2 5 1 6 6 to 1 Start fair; won with first 2 driving hard. Time--2:12-1/2. J. C. Cahn's ch c Typhoon II, by imp. Top Gallant-Dolly Varden. TWENTY-FOURTH DERBY 1898 Kentucky is happy. The Kentucky Derby on Wednesday last was won by a Kentucky horse, bred, owned and trained, while Memphis and the Southern talent are clothed in sackcloth and ashes. The gallant Plaudit lowered the colors of the hitherto invincible Lieber Karl. The day of the great event opened gloomy and showery, and the weather, therefore, reduced the crowd which would have otherwise been perhaps the greatest in the history of this famous race. Before the races began, however, the rain ceased and a brilliant assembly saw the 24th Kentucky Derby, and even in numbers the crowd suffered little in comparison with previous Derby Days, from ten to fifteen thousand people being present. The track had been deep in dust, and the light showers of the morning made the track a little slow and soggy, but by no means sloppy or muddy. Col. M. Lewis Clark was presiding judge and Secretary Price his associate.