PACEMAKER'S SUCCESS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 61, 9 September 1933, Page 25

PACEMAKER'S SUCCESS

SENSATION AT GOODWOOD

Before the race for this year's Goodwood Cup on July 27 an old-timer'was relating how, a good many years ago (1882 to be exact), Friday was put in to make the running for Tristan, but kept on running and won, remarks "Meyrick Good" in the "Sporting Life." He added: "It would not the least astonish me if history repeats itself today with Sans Peine and Foxhunter." It did. Five horses, Fdxhuuter, Brown Jack, Brulette, Sans Peine, and Ximenes, went to the starter, backed in that order, with the last pair at a very extended quote. Brown Jack was without his usual pacemaker, Mail Fist, as his trainer (I. Anthony) knew that Sans Peine was there to make the , "travelling' hot." Finding the grey Ximenes. obliging, Sans Peine's rider (IS, Smith) decided not to bustle along his mount unduly, but he was always a long way ahead of the other three. With a mile and five furlongs traversed and • only another mile left, Sans Peine was sent up to the cast-iron grey, who still retained plenty of fight, and it was not till in-the- straight that. Sans Peine finally mastered him. Foxhunter, breaking down two furlongs out, did. not then appear, and Sans Peine had to carry on and win easily by four lengths from Brown Jack, who just managed to get to Ximenes near the post. Mr. Edward Esmond's feelings must have been curiously mixed, for his pleasure of winning with Sans Peine, a three-year-old colt by Sansovino who also claims a St. Leger engagement next week, was marred by the fact that his grand horse, Foxhunter, who had carried oif the Ascot Gold Cup and who had proved himself the best stayer in training, broke down completely. . ■. Had it been known how the race would be run, Sans Peine would probably not even have been saddled. He certainly was not needed as a pacemaker, for Ximenes set off at a cracker, and at one stage of the two miles and five furlongs must have been fully a hundred yards ahead. Still the Newmarket trainer J. Jarvis always held a high regard of Sans Peine, and a raco such as this was all that was needed to justify the opinion. The last occasion upon which a pacemaker won an important race was when Saltash scored in the 1923 Eclipse Stnkes for Lord Astor, who was relying on Bold and Bad, adds "Meyriek Good/ After thar race, it is said, Lady Astor asked her husband "whafr he knew about racing:"'! There was of course also the famous ease of Jedclnh's 100 to I Derby win in IS9B, when ' the .stable's elect, Dieudonne, for whom Jeddah was principally left in, finished unplaced.