THE OAKS STAKES

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 127, 30 May 1936, Page 11

THE OAKS STAKES

LOVELY ROSA'S VICTORY

(Received May 30, 12.30 p.m.). LONDON, May 29. On the fourth day of the Epsom Meeting, the- following was the result I of the ' OAKS . STAKES,. a sweepstakes with £2000 added; second 10 per cent, and third 5 per cent, of whole stakes; for /three-year-old fillies; 1J miles. Lieut.-Colonel F. R. Macdonald's b f Lovely Rosa, by Tolgus— Napoule, 9.0 1 Sir F. Eley's b f Barrowby Gem, by Hurstwdod—Flower Show, 9.0 2 Lord Derby's br f Feola, by Friar Marcus —Aloe, 9.0' 3 ■ Seventeen started. Won by threequarters of a length, with two lengths between second and.third. (Winner bred by Mr. E. J. Hope, and trained by H. L. Cottrill.) ■ [Lovely Rosa raced five times as a two-year-old. She finished third to Vanbrugh and Flower Show in the Salisbury Stakes, 5 furlongs, second to Fair Ranee in the Queen Mary Stakes, 5 furlongs, and won the Kennet Stakes, 5 furlongs, from donation and Outbreak. She was unplaced in her other two starts last season. Barrowby Gem started in eight races as a two-year-old, and her only notable success was in the Sandown Park Stud Produce Stakes, which she won from a good field.' Feola, who is raced on lease by Lord Derby for the King, did not win a race last, season, but this year was successful in the Easter Handicap at Kempton Park, and finished second to Tide-way in the One Thousand Guineas.—"Ribbonwood."]