BONNY BOSWORTH
EULOGY OF GOLD CUP WINNER
-.Bos-^orthr "bonniest loqking ;o£ all: tho horses I hate, seen for very many years, •won the.Ascot Gold Cup, easing, up at. the ■finish', and although ' the field . went. so' carefully for a long "way .that the.time: was slow,•' even allowing that the conditions underfoot were dragging, the credit belongs to Lord' Derby's colt of beating last year's French.Derby and Grand Prix winner, Hotweed, writes "Augur," in "Sporting Life." Hotweed, in.point of appearance proved' all "that we had been led to expect of him, but he lacks Bosworth's smooth • action, being addicted to throwing his legs about. He could not have found favour in this respect when he cantered, and although on the return journey ho had, like «the rest, plenty of time in which to find even stride, he was awry when extra effort was asked of him, and in switching off a true line, to the interference of whatever chance Haste Away might have had of making a bid for third place, the French horse also prejudiced his own opportunity. I 1 think the 4 result would have been the same no matter how the race was run, and that Bosworth was not. required to show nearly his best in order to wini The question may have occurred to some minds: Why did not Hotweed or Feb. both supposedly well endowed with stamina, make the race more of a- stayers' test 2 . .
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 37, 12 August 1930, Page 6
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BONNY BOSWORTH
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 37, 12 August 1930, Page 6
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