The Kentucky Derby; one mile and a quarter; for three-year olds; purse, $15,000 added; net value to the winner, $16,600; $2,500 to second, $1,000 to third, $275 to fourth. Fractional Time—0:23⅗, 0:47⅗, 1:12⅘, 1:38, 2:04⅗.

Starters Weights Jockeys St. ¼ ½ ¾ S. F.
Omar Khayyam, 117 Borel 11 10 h 10 1 6½ 2 1 1 2
Ticket, 117 J. McTaggart 1 3 h 3 1½ 4½ 1½ 2 1½
Midway, 117 C. Hunt 12 12 1 9 1 8½ 3 h 3 4
Rickety, 117 Robinson 5 7½ 5 1 1 h 4½ 4 1
War Star, 110 Buxton 6 5 1½ 6 1 5½ 5 h 5 h
Manister Toi, 117 Keogh 15 13½ 11½ 10 1 6½ 6 h
Skeptic, 117 Martin 14 6 1 4 h 9 1 7 1 7 1½
Guy Fortune, 117 Connolly 2 14 1 12 1 12 1 11 1 8½
Star Master, 117 Loftus 9 4½ 2 h 2 h 8 11 9 h
Stargazer, 110 Crump 10 1½ 1½ 3 h 9½ 10 2
Cudgel, 117 Murphy 13 11 1 7 1 13 1 12½ 11 5
Green Jones, 117 Goose 3 9 h 13 1 11½ 13 1 12 8
Top o’ the Wave, 117 Morys 4 15 14 2 14 1 14 1 13 4
Berlin, 117 Andress 7 2½ 8 h 7½ 10 1 14 12
Acabado, 114 Schuttinger 8 8 h 15 15 15 15

The $2 mutuels paid: Omar Khayyam, straight $27.60, place $10.90, show $6.20; Ticket, place $3.70, show $2.80; Midway, show $5.10.

Omar Khayyam was bred in England by Sir John Robinson and J. T. Farr and was purchased by his present trainer, Charles T. Patterson for C. K. G. Billings and Frederick Johnson at Newmarket, September 15, 1915, for $1,500. Omar Khayyam’s sire Marco won the Cambridgeshire, etc., and is the sire of Neil Gow, Beppo, Marcovil, Malua, Bembo, Mirador, Sansovino, and other good horses.

Omar Khayyam, named for the great Persian poet and astronomer, is the first foreign-bred colt to win a Kentucky Derby. His owners are Frederick Johnson, a broker, in New York and C. K. G. Billings, owner of the famous trotters Uhlan, Lou Dillon and Major Delmar and it is his second season as a thoroughbred owner. Mr. Johnson saw his colt win but Mr. Billings was unable to enjoy seeing the victory.

Trainer C. T. Patterson said before the race: “I never trained a horse in which I had more confidence than Omar Khayyam, and I handled Hamburg and Ornament.”

FORTY-FOURTH DERBY 1918

In the presence of the greatest crowd that ever thronged Churchill Downs and over a track fetlock deep in mud, Willis Sharpe Kilmer’s chestnut gelding Exterminator, saddled by Henry McDaniel, and capably ridden by W. Knapp, scored an easy victory over seven other good three-year olds in the forty-fourth running of the Kentucky Derby this afternoon. Kenneth D. Alexander’s crack Broomstick colt, Escoba, ridden by Joe Notter, finished second, a length back of the winner and eight lengths in front of Viva America, the only filly that started in the race. A. K. Macomber’s imported War Cloud, a heavy favorite in the speculation and which would have paid a little less than three to two, had he won, was never a serious factor and finished fourth, beaten all of the way.