A FRENCH-BRED WINNER

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1932, Page 9

A FRENCH-BRED WINNER

"Brulette, the winner'o^the Goodwoo Cup, is a French-bred'.mate.-who-we successful in last year's Epsom Oal in the colours of;.Lieut.-GoloneLG. V Birkin, an Englishman who laces bot in England and -in France. - She we taken over to England specially forth Oaks, and was sent back to Franc .immediately afterwards to contest tt Grand Prix de Paris, in which ah finished out of a place. In Oetpbt Shiran in the important'Prix de l'Ai Triompho, one nnle,and"a half, at tonj champs, but again she.failed to earn place, the winner being tho Prix- d 'Diane (French baits) Victor, Peai .Cap. ;■' ■;■■ *:. .. '; ■". .7 ■ ■;■..:■: . This season sho early. sh'pw«d bgtt« .form, in Fraaice,.. however, .!ancL'.'a£ he .firsJt start . won. a long "'. distanco :W^f.j race. • She was purchased 'by Tlior Woolavington at the. j beginning 6 June, and in hia. colours ran in th Queen Alexandra.: Stakes,',. about t\y jniler and three-quarters, on ., the fina .day of the recent Koyal Ascot Meetinj arid finished second to Brown Jacl who was registering his fourth succee sive victory in the race". The Stake Was her only start at Ascot. As a final point it is worth uotini that Brown Jack, one of tho most popu lar horses in. England, won the Good wood Cup" two years' ago, and wa second to Salmon Leap last year. Thi time, for his'retirement' may not nov be far off, but it' will be many year before his many splendid long-distanci achievements are forgotten by Englisi racegoers. Besides tho Goodwood Cuj other important races he has won hay been the Ascot Stakes, Ebor Handicap Chester Cup, and Doncastor Cup. •