CAREER OF VICTORY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 216, 12 September 1935, Page 7

CAREER OF VICTORY.

Aga Khan's Horse Scores Ninth

And Last Triumph.

BAHRAM TO BE RETIRED

(Received 11 a.m.)

-LONDOX, September 11

The St. Leger Stakes, of £100 each with £4000 added, for three-year-olds, one mile and three-quarters and 132 yards, run at Doncastcr to-day, resulted: —

BAHRAM, b c, by Blandford—Friar's

Daughter (H.H. Sniirkc SOLAR KAY, b c, by Solario—-Trin

Aga Khan)—C,

comalee (Sir Malcolm McAlpine) J. Sirett BUCKLEIGH, b c, by Sansovino—

Surbine (Lord Glanely) —A. Wragg 3

Also started: Flash Bye (R. A. Jones), Field Trial (R. Dick), Plassy (R. Perryman), Fairbairn (Gordon Eichards), Pry 11. (T. Weston).

Five lengths; three lengths. This was Bahrain's last race, and he is to bo retired to the stud at a fee of 500gs. He has won all the nine races he contested, and his stake-earnings amount to £43,086.

It is now ascertained that the jockey, F. Fox, has fractured his skull and will be unable to ride for some months. At present he is progressing satisfactorily.

By his success in the St. Leger Bahrain joins the select band of triple crown winners—Two Thousand Guineas, Derby and St. Leger—a feat which has only been accomplished on thirteen previous occasions. Though a good number o£ horses have won the Two Thousand Guineas and Derby they have failed in the Doncaster classic. The success of Bahram would be doubly pleasing to the Aga Khan, for he bred the colt. Last season, as a two-year-old, Bahram started on five occasions. He commenced by winning the National Breeders' Stakes, five furlongs, at Sandown Park, beating his stable companions Theft and Fairbairn, who ran in the St. Leger yesterday, and others. His next outing was in the Rous Memorial Stakes, six furlongs, at Goodwood, which he won by a neck. He followed this by winning the Gimcrack Stakes, six furlongs, at York, and later the Boscawen Stakes, five furlongs, at Newmarket. His last appearance as a two-year-old was in the Middle Park Stakes, on the same course, in which he beat five others easily.