ROYAL ASCOT MEETING

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 30, 4 August 1933, Page 4

ROYAL ASCOT MEETING

LIMELIGHT WINS FOR KING SURPRISES AND DELIGHTS (From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, Juno 23. Ascot lived up to its reputation for surprise' results in tli'o 'racing events. Many well-fancied horses failed,- and many comparatively, uneohsidered...first caught the judge's eye."' ■ The going 'on all four days was good, though by the last it was inclined to' be hard after three days of brilliant summer sunshine and heat. Ascot is always a popular meeting from the point of view of numbers present, and there is always the additional interest on account of the : daily .attendance., of the.King and Queen, with, ,many members of their .household, '■'. Very ' general is ..the desire that Ascot..should-have more than its one annual, fixture..,*■"„ '~'.'•...•■■''•',."•". .■. ".. There, are .twenty-eight items on the card to bo contested, seven each day. AH are important, but each day there is one event, outstanding from the other six. Most iiotable on the first day's card is the Ascot Stakes, a handicap two miles in length. In the field, of 23 the King's horse, Fox Earth, was ; ,made favourite, but he was nowhere .at the finish, victory being ■ achieved"/ by" the :French-brcd .five-year-old ■'■grey ' rig : Paris (by Cqrfe'uil—LavPatiade/; %• N.egbfol), owned by;"Mv. J: '.Cpopef,!apd. ~trained; by, A. Doug-las-Pennant at. tfpayonj ■ Wiltshire^ ■ -Roi ;de Parish was. ".extremely.' M .welLv r ridden by the recently-arrived; South;. African, jockey, C. Kyckham, .whose, services,are in growing ..request..:,:,Well^drawn,.'the grey got homo only' by a' short head from Mr. P. Johnson's Loosestrife, gaining mastery in the last furlong. Fox Earth was far behind. Last year the event resulted in an exciting dead heat, and it was nearly a dead heat again. The Gold Vase, given by his Majesty, is for a two-mile event, and this was carried off by the favourite, Mr. H. J. Simms's Gainslaw (colt by W.inalot—Margaret Burr, by Gainsborough). Bred by . Mr. A. G. Clark, he was trained by F. Leader at- Newmarket, and was ridden by T. Weston.' The field numbered fourteen. Gainslaw won; by a length from, Truncheon (Werwolf—Dublin Girl), who came with a strong run inside the distance. ' The expected happened' in the Prince of Wales's • Stakes, which was carried off by Lord Derby's Epsom hero Hyperion, and in the St. James's Palace Stakes Lord Astor's Canon Law .defeated Lord Durham's prominent runner in the Derby, Scarlet Tiger.;.:;'', Good judges deplore the absence- from the Derby of Canon Law, feeling sure:.; that he would have made a gopttrace of it.with Hyperion. Madagascar (owneii by-Lord;'6arnaryon), who, had alsou'M; in the;,big-Epsom i-aee. proved .the winner <■ of •: the ■ Queen. "Anne Stakes, . the -.' first " event of': the - day, and named after Queen Anne,: to whom . the world owes Ascot. ... ; . It was, one is •reminded, on a windy and wet clay.-in. August, 1711; that the Queen'drove over the many miles of her Windsor estate. The birches stood like silver spears, on the edge "of ' the green heath that lay within the confines of'thr; Royal Manor of Windsor. • Anne's eyes swept ,the,:flowiri|l: miles with:.Stuart per-' ception. ;' "This," said"the;. Queen,' '.'is the.-place,-to stretch -a; two-year-old. lief there rbe a race :meetirig ■;her.e." See to it. my lords." Thus Ascot began.- ' '■ ■ THE SECOND DAY. The plum of the second day, tho Royal Hunt Cup, 7 furlongs 155 yards, eluded the first four favourites, ' and went to Lieutenarit-Colonel Giles Loder's less popular fancy, Colorado Kid, a 'Colt by Colorado—Baby Polly, by Spearmint, with the complete outsider, Scattercash (Greenback—The Trend), and Diamantee (Diophon— Silver Onyx) second and third respectively. Two greatly fancied can-didates-;.in: .Bprtofinp (from ; Yorkshire^ and'-Beneficial' (from LambouriiXi.took no part^jm^e^race,1. being badly, loft. at the pbstwT>r^HuSjr:"eamG home together..quite1 leisiirely.;;:fafter the race had . finished. Beneficial ivhipped round at the start and' threw' ;'H;: Wragg, and . Portofino also whipped ;■ round. 'C. Buckham again received ; great gi-ee tings as he rode \tlle winner into the paddock. The same jockey had:-vidd.cn Colorado Kid to victory in tho Jubilee .at Kempton. Buckham completed a- notable victory on the same, day by. winning the Bessborough'! Stakes, .a mile and a half,.on Sir Matthew '^Wilson's R6ek Star (Sherwood Starr^Rockmills, by Mushroom), .trained at,;Newmark'et .."by...''.Major W. V. Beatty. The fiejd[i;numbered 23, and,; Rock Star! stirte^,^/.io'rig- way from ■ favouritism; MohsieiitTM-.t-M; 'Boussac's:.Thaouka ■(AsteKiife'Sweet*VPicture- filly) was, second, with -Sir/Ernest date's Denbigh, the fdvonrite,:tWird.;:; .. ! "■.'■■ ~ _ Lprd: : -A:ptpr'a. Betty, recovered the pres-tig'e.-.that;sihe-lost in the Oaks.by winning the'Corbrjation Stakes over the Old Mile, with ;thp."oaks winner, Chatelaine, a lons way.."behind.' '-. Lord ' Astnr had a . great receptioh.'jas .lip led in the winner, who had{beensso:;wcll ridden by K. Dielc.-'-Tho Frpjich -filly,' ■ Bipearl, had many 'friends, and- finislieclrf<iurtli.;,;.:. Betty, always com-mamlccl-iher :field.; :! -The result' was- very gratifying, ns she was the second favourite of -the day to come home first, all tho other five events being won by outsiders. Chnfolamo was the hope of many, but at a mile at Epsom Betty had beaten her. . THE GOLD CUP. A field of Hen contested the prize of the third day, and an outsider won; The filly Brulette (Lord Woolavington) was expected to be hard at the distance of two and a half miles, although it was common knowledge that no mare had won the Cup since La Fleche in 1891. In point of fact, the. .'only. .m.ares. successful Bince. 1842, have been Beeswing, Brigantine, Apology; and La Fleehe;.-','The' French challenger this year.was Mr. J. Henhessy's Gris Perle. However, Mr.' E. Esmond's Foxhunter (Foxlaw—Trimestral, by 'William the Third) gained a stylish victory from Sir Alfred Butt's Solario colt Orpen. Orpen was second favourite. • '."■'■' : Foxhunter was an outsider, being primarily neglected, because he had run in a two-mile, event as favourite the. day previous and had been'caught at the post. In the Gold .Cup, however, he was going splendidly, and; he/.resisted .a la t,e challenge by OrpenVtb'get;past the jiost by. a length, the Aehtoi mare Nitsiehin being five.: -lengths !-away;:; third.■;? Foxhunter feliowedl himself'■'•to be' the best stayer' among older^'"horses" in training. The j^ga Khan's- Eirdaussi was : fourth, and Brulette wasfifth. The time, 4min 22 3-ssec, was good," but was not a record. On this day Lord Stanley's- filly sicle, so much expected to win the Oaks, retrieved her reputation by taking a mile event, the Ribblesdale Stakes. Her victory was not wholly a-popular one because everybody was "on" the Aga Khan's Solario colt Dastur, who could do no more than, come. :in«third. '■ The Derby third, Statesman,';:was: also /well liked..' but he finished fourth. Versicle, by Sickle —Verdict, was .bred, by Lady 'Bju-bara Smith; and-'■the- HoH.1 G.! Lam'ljjoTi/is her trainer. '..By -winning • the Wokingham Stakes, Concerto :(Orphens/r-Conste]la_tion, by Sunstar) repented- last year's; triumph! His owner is Sir H. Cunliffe Owen. Ho was ridden1 by H. Wracff. and Jiis trainer is Captain .0' M. D. Bell, Lnmbonrn. His victory pleased cveiyone, for lie started favourite in the field of twenty-four. One of tho runners well spoken of was Portofino, who had disgraced himself in the Roynl Hunt Cup, but he came -nowhere. Concerto gained the victory by a lengtli and a half from the -Tetratema-—Eathcar: ron gelding . Strathcarron, in Imin 3 4-ssec. \- ' ■■■'■'- -. ■' V ■ ;.-.. ;; ."_.., IMMENSELY POPULAR WINS. . .Then.. came - two / remarkably. popular wins,. -.-' One,was when .the King's four-year-old Limelight, a. very goodrlooking horse, won-the'. Hardeastle. Stakes of- a mile and a haif with top.,weight (9st 101b). from the Aehtoi mare Nitsiehin. J. Childs, the King's jockey, had to. ride his best t6. win, -and. the result was 'a; high tribute to Jijs : joekeyslup,' for..:there was only' a. nock, in. ; . it, while•• a'■-short- head divided.:Nitsiehin.'.fr.oni .the:Solmio—Sister-in-law fiily Doii.t Sol.' '- The- King and Queen and the Duke of Connauftht came to the unsaddling enclosure to see Limelight led in, and very proud did Childs look in the effective' Royal cbldurs. Previously, the colt's -best -distance had been over a mile arid a quarter. The trainer iW. Jan-is) and the jockey received th^

King's congratulations and tho plaudits of tlio people in tho paddock. Later in the attoriHiim his xMiijcsty sent for ChikU and for Gordon Kichanls, whom ho thanked for his riding of l-'ox Earth mid The Abbot in outlier races nt tho meeting. Tho second groat event wa.-> the winning by Brown Jack for ll.ie fifth successive year of the Queen Alexandra Stakes (two miles six furlongs). As liithcrln, ho Was ridden by Steve JJoimgiiuc. Sir 11. Weruher is the owner of this niue-yeai-old brown gelding by .'lackdiiw—Qiicrquidella, by Krqonstad. Mini Tint, the stable companion, accompanied lSrowu Jock in the race. It was an exciting event, but' everyone knew who would win. Mail Fist fell away in due, ;! course, mid Coin Belt joined Brown Jitcjk1 b.eluw tho distance, but the most po|iular hoi.se In England gained the post by n length and a half in. omin 10 :l-usec. The paddock nearly went mad with excitement, and enthusiastic were the cheers for horse, owner, "Steve," and the trainer (Ivor Anthony). . . Many horses, among the two-year-olds who contested Ascot events will be heard of again. Their reputations have preceded them, one being the Golden Araby— Tetratem'a filly Silver Araby, for whom Sir F. Eley gave 3200 .'guineas as a yearling. She is a charming little lady.