Hoist the Flag, of course - beat the same horses who were winning other preps, by daylight and with glee. And with him out, Good Behaving, who beat the same horses in the Wood and Gotham. But Good Behaving wasn't Derby nominated and no supplements in those days.
Buckpasser out with quarter cracks; Derby went to Kauai King??? who couldn't finish in the same furlong with the champion.
The Derby scenario would have been hard on Dr. Fager, like the famous Woodward where he was run into the ground by a rabbit. The Good Doctor wasn't a natural 10f horse; he won at the distance on his class.
One who ran in the Derby and should have won was Blue Larkspur. The track came up muddy but BL's trainer had gone to the hospital with appendicitis and nobody in the stable felt they had the authority to get him shod with mudcaulks. Slipped and slided to fourth.
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