ENGLISH RACING

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 107, 2 November 1923, Page 11

ENGLISH RACING

FRENCH CHAMPION BEATEN BY VERDICT.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPISIGIII.: (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 31st October. The following was the result of the CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES, of 2000 soys; one mile and a furlong. Lord Coventry's b f Verdict, by Shogun—Finale, 3yrs, 7.12 1 M. P. Wertheimer's b c Epinard, 3yrs, 9.2 '. 2 Mr.. George Hardy's eh c Dumas, by Marten—Judea, 3yrs, 6.7 3 There were twenty-three starters. Verdict won by a neck. Lord Coventry has been a member of the Jockey Club since 1860, and has bred?; all Verdict's maternal ancestors for half a century. He won the Grand Nationals in 1863 and 1864. Verdict robbed France' of the greatest attempt ever made to win the autumn double—the Ceaarewitch and Cambridgeshire Stakes. Frenchmen regarded Epinard as an unbeatable superhorse, and backed him heavily. If Epinard had won, many thousands of pounds would have gone to France. As it was, all the French gains over Rose Prince and more remain here. Epinard was attempting a weight-carrying record. The " Evening Standard " says that if Epinard had won, £2,500,000 would have been paid to France by British bookmakers. The Cesarevitch Stakes, two miles and a quarter, was won by Mr. C. F. Kenyon's Rose Prince, who beat Teresina by a short head, with Ceylonese, another champion, over a length away.