KING GEORGE GOLD CUP

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 15

KING GEORGE GOLD CUP

.... ■ -■ T GREAT JUMPNG EVENT GOBS TO ITALY. „ England, on 19th Jun«, 192^, lost its hold.upon King George's Gold Cup, offered at the International Hone Show for individual jumping by officers. Last year the trophy was won by Lieut.-Colonel , Geoffrey Brooke upon his '20-year-old flWdinff Combined. Training, but when it came .to that aged horse's turn to defend the. title it was dear that the spirit was willing but the 'flesh weak. Colonel Brooke nursed his old charger with all the skill of the first-clasß horseman that h« is, but Combined .Training dropped hii heplo into his first jump and continued, to low vital pointo «t n»ny other leaps. The honours of the ,d«y went to ah' Italian though he had to jump off ajrainit a Frenchman in the final bout, and, amid muoh excitement, the cup was *on by half a point, i.e., four faults committed by the Italian against'4i faults nwrked on the eooring cards against the Frenchman. The ultimate winner—and the King's Qnp goes to Italy! for the first time eunoe it wm offered-in 1911—was Major Count AntoneUi, of the Piemonte Roale Cavalry, Italy, who bestrode a blapk gelding called Bluff, whose two white hind feet got him into trouble at one fence; while his runner-up, Lieutenarit Clave, 26th Drmgbons, France, oh his aged bay gelding, knocked a brick down, at. the wall* and committed a hali fault elsewhere. i ' ,

From the hands of the King did Count' Antonelli receive the gold cup, which was carried into the -ring by Sir Gilbert Greenall. Hw Majesty also congratulated Lieutenant Clavo upon his plucky leaping^ The Italian ,Aml>Msador laccompa,nied,the King into the ring, and introduced to His Majesty General Belotti. It is understood , that, the Princess Yolande was seated near the entrance to the ring. She is visitinK the show incognito. , The Kinsr-' and Queen, who were accompanied by Lady Mary Cambridge,'arrived in the building promptly at 3. The great.haillwa* packed, 'and the seats beneath the Royal box were filled with a considerable, gathering of foreign' Ambassadors,? Ministers, , and officers. Marshal Petam was a oonspicuous figure among the latter. The Royal party ■' were received by Lord Lonsdale and Sir Gilbert Greehalbon bobatf of the directors of the show. ' " . ■ ' . !