LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1931, Page 15

LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP

(Eeceived 26th March, 8.40.a.m.)

LONDON, 25th March.. On the third day of the Lincoln Meeting, which opens the English flat racing season, the following- was the result of the . .

LINCOLNSHIRE- ,- HANDICAP, a sweepstakes of 20 sdvs <;ach, or forfeit, with 1000 soys added; second 100 soys, third 50 soys; one mile. Knight Error, Sir George Noble's eh h, Prince Galahad —V.A.D., syrs, 7.7 1 Eattlin the Ecofor, Lord Woolavington 's br or blk h, Chaucer —Eeef, 0yr5,.7.12 2 Tel-Asur, Captain' E. A. Elgee'3 b g, Allenby—Curragh. Gale, 4yrs, 7.6 3 Thirty-five horses started. Won by one length and a half, three-quarters of a length between second and third.

The victory of Knight Error in the Lincolnshire Handicap doubtless came as a surprise, for, in spite of the fact that he ran a poor third to Leonidas 11. and Culzean in the race last year, carrying 7.0, or 71b less than the weight he saddled yesterday, there were few who gave him a chance of seeing the distance through this year. After his Lincolnshire effort last year, when he lost because he was done with at the end of six furlongs, he won in April, again in August, and finally in October, but on each occasion the distance was six furlongs, and each time lie had a strong rider to assist him. When the description of the race comes to hand it will probably be found that Knight Error owed his success to that early speed which is so essential at Lincoln, and to the fact that he was fitter than most of the opponents who had better book form for the distance than he.

An interesting feature of Knight Error's success is the fact that he is a sou of Prince Galahad, one of the few horses of St Simon male descent now at the stud in England. The failure of the sons and grandsons of St. Simon at the stud in. England is one of the most amazing features of modern bloodstock breeding, for if ever a stallion stamped himself on the breed throughout a long stud career it was St. Simon. Yet the fact is inescapable that the male line is in fast decline in England, and the hope of its survival practically Tringes on the remote possibility that Prince Galahad and his sons will carryit on. Prince Galahad was sixteenth last year on the sires' list, the top rungs' of which were occupied mainly by sons of Hampton, Bend Or, and Le Sancy (particularly Tetratema). Knight Error's success gives his sire a good start in the honours' race this year.