ENGLISH RACING

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21147, 24 April 1934, Page 14

ENGLISH RACING

TOM WALLS, JUNIOR irso;; oi'R <jv.'H corhjsposdent.) LONDON, March 20. Tremendous enthusiasm was accorded Mr Tom Walls, jun., when he won the Grand Military Gold Cup Steeplechase, at the Sandown Military meeting on March 16. This great event, of three miles, was won by his own mare, Crafty Alice, trained by his father, the well-known actor owner-trainer. The young rider is a subaltern in the sth Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. The mare had won an Army race at Aldershot a few days previously, but no one thought of her winning the Gold Cup. Perhaps it was a lucky victory. Sir P. Grant Lawson's Gofden Holiday, the favourite, fell, and Mr F. Furlong's Shilling, the second favourite, broke down. Of 13 starters only nine got round. One of the fallen, Sir J. Carew Pole's Lucifer Race, made several futile efforts to rise. It looked as if he had injured his back or was otherwise seriously hurt. Those who were attending him removed his bridle and saddle, and onlookers feared the worst. He was to be shot, it seemed, and while the spectators were watching for the arrival of the veterinary surgeon with his humane killer, Lucifer Race suddenly rose lustily and galloped, unharmed, past the stands to the paddock. Crafly Alice, a lean looking mare, jumped perfectly all the lime, and she was ridden with great dash and skill by her young owner. One of the first to offer felicitations was the colonel of his regiment. Mrs Sydney McGregor used to own Crafly Alice, and she hunted the mare for a season or two with the Warwickshire. Tom Walls purchased her, and this winter both father and son have hunted her with the Pytchley. There are some judges who think "Crafty Alice would get round the Aintree course. "Incidentally fsays "Sporting Life"). it is a wonderful double for Tom Walls ! to have the winners of the Derby and the Grand Military Gold Cup within two years. April the Fifth unquestionably won the Derby on merit, but there was an clement of luck about the win of Crafty Alice, owing to the mishap to the two favourites." The mare won a stake worth £4OO and a piece of gold plate valued at 100 sovereign:;. BIG LEGAL ACTION 1 EXTENSIVE DAMAGES CLAIMED A big legal action is pending concerning the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes. J. R. Stanhope is claiming £OO,OOO damages from the Irish Free State Hospitals Truit for alleged defamation, breach of contract, and negligence. Stanhope, who now resides in Dublin, was a professional seller of sweepstakes tickets in Durban <Soulh Africa), and was supplied by the Hospitals Trust with a number of books or tickets in the Grand National sweep of two vears ago. He alleges that ho sold and returned to the trust counterfoils of 54 tickets, together with a draft drawn on Messrs Thos. Cook and Sons, for £22 10s, on Janunrv 19. 1932. The bank draft, it is alleged, was in due course cashed by Hospital, Trust, who. it is claimed, purported to carry out ,-i draw but did not include the counterfoil:; in question. Neither, declares Stanhope, did the Hospital Trust furnish him with sellers' receipts. Bv their alleged breach of contract, plaintiff declares, he was greatly damaged in his trade or business as a professional seller of sweepstake tickets, and was h"ld up to public odium and contempt by being placed in the position of a defaulter. He is claiming £30.000 damages for alleged breach of contract, and £30,000 for what is claimed to be negligence. The High Court has ordered the plaintiff to give security for costs on the action, which is the first of its kind since the sweepstakes began in Dublin. ARCHER'S RECORD EQUALLED j ifAM HE.U'HY'S SI'CCFSS j i BRUSSELS. April 22. i Sam Hcaphy, the English jockey, i equalled Archer's record of 2747 winsi to-day when he rode Baron Brugmann's | Fletrange to victory in the Prix de I les Pinette. Heaphy. who is 51, has j been riding in Belgium for 33 years, j PAHIATUA K.C. ACCEPTANCES

:.rK ESS ASSOUATIOK TELBGRAV.', PAHIATUA, April C'-i. Following are the acceptances for the Pafiintua Kacing Dul/s mooting on A i» r i 1 i'ali.anci; niMMVEHiirr handicap, <>f 00 bov-l Minimum weight 9*o. One mile ami 1 1 0 yard?.

PAIHATUA CUP, of 115 jov.v One mile arid a quarter.

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['IJE.SIDI'NT'S JIACK HANDICAP, of 00 suvs. .Seven furlougs. s'. lb. sr. !b.

UAUKUA HACK' HANDICAP. <>( GO sovs. Ono mile find 110 yards.

MAKUJtI HACK HANDICAP, of GO sovs. .Six and 55 yard?.

fIKKTAHUNA HANDICAP, of 70 so\?. Minimum weight. 7-!'. Six furlongs and 55 y nrd.«.

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