FRENCH HORSE WINS CAMBRIDGESHIRE

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25022, 2 November 1946, Page 7

FRENCH HORSE WINS CAMBRIDGESHIRE

WEIGHT CARRYING RECORD ESTABLISHED (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 31. Following is the result of the Cambridgeshire Stakes, a sweepstakes; nine furlongs.—Sayani (Fair Copy—Perfume) 9-4 W. R Johnstone 1; Claro (Colombo — Clovelly) 2: Toronto (Pheroshah—Felicitas) 3. > • , Thirty-four started. Won by a head, with a head between second and third. Time, Imin 54 1-ssec. Sayani’s weight of 9-4 was a record for the race. His rider was the Australian jockey, “Togo” Johnstone. Sayani thus brought off another French triumph by completing the second leg of the Cesarewitch-Cambridge double. Monsieui i’Amiral having carried off. the Cesarewitch earlier. The “Daily Mail’s” racing correspondent estimated that Sayani’s Cambridgeshire win and Monsieur I’Amiral s Cesarewitch victory a fortnight ago enabled French owners and backers to take at least £500,000 from English bookmakers sayani won at 25/1 and Monsieur 1 Amiral 33/1, making 883/1 for the double. The correspondent quotes one big firm of bookmakers saying: "If thfese French successes continue, they are going get all the racing money in England. Another said: “It is one of the most disastrous Cambridgeshires we have known. Since June French horses have won 21 races in England, and taken £37,091 in stake money.