ENGLISH RACING.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14982, 1 June 1914, Page 9

ENGLISH RACING.

EPSOM SUMMER MEETING. - THE OAKS. - (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyrhrht.) LONDON, May 2). The- following i_ the result of tho OAKS STAKES, cf 50C3 govs; oecond COO __«, and third 100 eovs from stake. For . three-year-olds allies. "We.ght 9st. Ons n_le and a half. J. B. Joel's br f Princess Donic, by ' ' Your 3_aje_ty—Doris ' .. ..3 Lot- Carnarvon's b f Wassilwsa; by Eager —H&ovaia ' .. 2 iSir John. -TLursbys b t Torca.ight, by John ©*■' Gaunt—Lesbia .. .. 3

' Princess Itonio won comfortably by two $ lengths. f Altbou?- the result of-the/Derby on Wed- '* oesday was unexpected, there v.ould be -o * eurp is© caused by the victory of Princew J. Dome ia. the ''ladies' race on -Friday, for * , after hor win in .the One Thousand Guinets ° a. the beginning o£ the mouth Mr Jocl'-i % . }il.y would probably bo made favourite fcr ' tic Oaks: Princes* Dorrie wao bred by her '■ owner, her dam Dori,«, being also tho dam of J Suns far, with whom Mr Joel -won tb*> Derby j ' in 1911. Although as a iwc-year-old Princess ' Dome failed to -win a- Tace. she perfoime-l ' very consistently, and out of eight starts slw j was second five times, third' twice, and one. ' imp seed. She made her first appearance- .in j the Acorn Stakes, of fivo furlongs,- at Epsom, ! and was beaten half h head by ilira, '.v. j 57 3-sth sec. She was unplaced 'in tho ' Windsor Catsle Stakes at Ascot, won r>y Land of Song, and in the Mereev"Stak<_ she •• ran e»co_d, won by G-lorvina, At Goodwood ah wa« unlucky enough to run up agairst *■ Tits- Tetrarch, when won by six lengths, and i i-be ran into a place in the Prince of Wales Kuiaei/ st Doncaeter, the Alington Plato. | Jloultoa Stakes, - and Bretby Stakes, and j at Newmarket. WaMiliesa, Started five i timet as a. two-year-old, winning i the Tbea'lo Maiden. Two-yoar-oid Plate"- at . Newbury, and running second in the Country f Maiden. Two-year-old Plate at Lingfield, and , third in the Berkshire _V_l Stakes at Now- , h-ary This last was possibly her best per- j formanoe, as she was in receipt of only 61b from the winner,- Lopgtown, who -was a smari two.jear-oM. Torchlight, who was .third on , Friday, also filled' thtt position in the One "- Tn usand Guineas. As a two-year-old c_* , won two r_c«, the I/ejjcstsf County Foii Stake*, ia October, and tho Free Handicap , a» the Nc-nuarket. October Meeting.