SPORTING

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 1, 1 July 1935, Page 11

SPORTING

THE GRAND PRIX

BRANTOME'S HALF-SISTER

BRITISHER JUST BEATEN

Uuiled 3?tess Association—By Electric Tel*j graph—Copyright. (Received July 1, 12.50 p.m.) ■ ' PARIS, June 30. A bold British effort to win the Grand Pxix de Paris at Longchamp today just failed, Baron Edouard de Rothschild's Crudite beating Mr. Arthur Armstrong's William of Valence by a short head. The Grand Prix de Paris is the leading three-year-old classic on the French Racing Calendar, being worth 800,000 francs and being run over a distance of one mile and seven furlongs, or longer than any of the English classics. Last year the unbeaten Brantonie was unable to contest the race, as he.was suffering from a cold at the time, but it is a strange coincidence that this year's race should have been won by Crudite, who is no other than his halfsister by La Farina. It is most unusual for a filly to succeed in this classic. The favourite for the race at most recent advice was the Princess de Faucigny-Lucinge's Louqsor, a colt by Teddy's Son Aethelstan, who won the Prix Hocquart, 1£ miles, at Longchamp, on May 12, with Mansur and Crudite only heads behind. None of these horses started in the Poule d'Essai de Poulams (French Two Thousand Guineas) or the Poule d'Essai de iPouliches (French One Thousand) on I May 19, but William of Valence was un- | placed in the former event. Crudite was bred by her owner, Baron E. de Rothschild, who also races Brantome. Her sire, La Farina, also bred by the Baron, is by Sans Souci II from Malatesta, by Isinglass from Parisina, by St. Simon; and her dam (and Brantome's), .Vitamine, is by Clarissimus from Viridiflora, by Sans Souci 11, thus coupling the Sans Sbuci blood high up in the pedigree. The Baron's horses are trained by Lucien Robert. . • The British horse so narrowly beaten, William of Valence, is English only, so far as he is owned by an Englishman. He was bred in France and has done all his racing there. His sire is the Prince Chimay horse Vatout; and his dam, Queen Iseult, is by Teddy. During the present season, so far as the records are available, he does not appear to have raced with any prominence until yesterday.—"Rangatira."