COCKPEN SOLD FOR STUD

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 105, 31 October 1933, Page 6

COCKPEN SOLD FOR STUD

Coekpen, the "gentleman" uf last year's Derby field, is repoited Uom England to have been sold by his bvecder-ownor, Lord Woolavington, to Mr. X V. Birch, a prominent South .African bloodstock breeder. He -was to have leit for his new home List month. A chci-tnut by Buclian out of the Charles O'Malley maie MargcutU, Cockpen was a brilliant two-year-old, winning theKennet Stakes at Newbury, Coventiy Stakes at Ascot, and the Ham Stakes at Goodwood, the only race1* in "which he ran in 1931. However, he did not'retain his form ns a three-year-old. lie1 went amiss on the day before the Two Thousand Guineas, but was heavily backed as second favourite to .Orwell for the Derby. He failed badly in the Epsom classic, but over five furlongs at Ascot he won a great race for the Fern Hill Stakes from Clustine. After that race he ran unplaced in three outings. He had not been'trained for any of his engagements this year.

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