ENGLISH RACING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 101, 30 April 1936, Page 22

ENGLISH RACING.

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. , WON BY PAY UP. (Received a.m.) LONDON, April 29. The Two Thousand Guineas, a sweepstake of £100, with 2000gs added, for three-year-olds, colts 9.0, fillies 8.9, one mile, run at Newmarket to-day, resulted: PAY UP, br c, by Fairway—Book Debt (Lord Astor), 9.0 1 MAHMOUD, gr or rn c, by Blenheim — Mali Mahal (H.H. Aga Khan), 9.0 . 2 THANKERTON, br c, by Manna —Ver- , ( diet (Mrs.-J. ShanU), 9.0 .« Nineteen started. Sliort head; three lengths. The Two Thousand Guineas is the first classic event of the English racing season and is 1 looked upon as a trial for the Derby. When the two-year-olds retire to their winter quarters there is generally one outstanding to warrant favouritism for the Derby the following season. In the last three years colts that have so distinguished themselves are Hyperion, Colombo and Bahram. , Both Hyperion and Bahram won the Derby. However, at the end of last season the position was rather obscure and many critics considered the two-year-olds were a moderate lot, with Mahmoud, the . Bossover colt, now known as Wyndham, and Abjer probably the best of them. Mahmoud won three races, the Newmarket Exeter Stakes, the Goodwood Richmond Stakes and the Do'ncaster Champagne Stakes, while he was third in the Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket. Pay Up started on four occasions as a two-year-old, finning second in the Kingston Two-year-old Plate at Sandown Park, and winning the Manchester Autumn Breeders' Foal Stakes in his last two efforts. His success yesterday looks as though it was a surprise, for he was not seriously considered by English writers in connection with the race. Thankerton failed to get into the money in each, of his two starts last season.