THE TETRARCH SCRATCHED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 114, 14 May 1914, Page 5

THE TETRARCH SCRATCHED.

A DERBY SENSATION. ZXTIHG GREY BREAKS DOWN. STRIKES LEG WHILE TRAINING (Received 10.50 a.m.) LONDON. May 13. Acting upon the adv.ree of his trainer. Mr. Dennont MeCatmont has scratched The Tetrareh for the Derby, owing to an injury to his leg. Tnough rumours had been current for some time that The Tetranh was threatened with lameness, his scratching caused a great sensation, because of his betting price and his unbeaten record in hi? seven races as a two-year-old. He hit himself in exeV-ise. His leg had been fired, but this had no effectHe was heavily backed only last night to win. Many of his hackers in 1013 insured themselves against a breakdown in Lloyd's and the underwriters have lost heavily. The '"Evening News" states that before the Champagne Stakes The Tetrarrh showed a tendency to hit himselTbehind the near fore knee when at full stretch. Such serious results followed that he was not allowed to start in the Kempton Produce Sakes. Experts were consulted and fitted a special boot to cure the bad habit, but it recurred. The scratching of The. Tetrareii is a •Derby eensa-tion only excelled by the dramatic incidents of last year's race, when the horse first -past the poet, Craganour. was disqualified for boring aftvr the King's .hort-e had been brought down by a suffragette. Last year The Tetrarch started ueven times, and with on-e except inn he won his raceis in a canter, nmliing being capable of «■ tending him. In his first race, a maiden plate, at Newmarket, he electritVed onlookers by the manner in whivh he spreud-cagled a. tield of twenty others: arid t-hen followed his victories in 'die Woolcote Stakes at ami in the Coventry Stakes at Ascot, which were even invreas-ingly impressive. Tie eonliniW his succet-«ful <-ire<>r. and cleaned up all the twoyeaT-old plums, including the National Breeders' Produce stakes at Sandown Park, the most valuable raop for youngster* in England: the Rous Memorial Stakes at Goodwood: the Bret-dcre' Foal Stak** at Derby; ami the Champagne Stakes at Doncaeter. Before the season had ended hf was installed a lior favourite for the Derby, and ail through thy winter he ruled the market, paralysing the early betting. Some enormous wagers, at very fthort- od-ds. as low two to one. were laid on his ability to capture the world's greatest race, but then nimoure began to circulate about His eond.it.ion. and the racing public ibegan to have doubts about the. flying £Tey. The owner was very non-committal, declining to say one way or another, what thy pros-peeta of hits colt were. Many of those who had barJced the horse began to hedge, and others who had invested small fortunes on his chances ■arranged rwith L+oyd'e to in&nre their bets, paying a. fairly hjgh rate to ensuTe a return of a portion of their losses in the event of the bonse not going to the potvt. It was 6ta*ed s-r>me time ago that the colt had be«m fired, and thie helped to send him back in the betting, with the result that KcnTiymoTe (wais made a better favourite, The Tetrarch's price being four to one yesterday, while Kennymore. the Two Thousand Guineas winner, was quoted at 0 to 4 against.