SPORTING

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 146, 23 June 1938, Page 11

SPORTING

"PITMEN'S DERBY" UNION JACK SUCCESSFUL (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received June 23, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 22. On the second day of the Newcastle and High Gosforth Park Summer Meeting the following was the result of the

NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE, a handicap of £1500; second £150 and third £75; 2 miles. N. Christy's b h Union Jack, by Singapore—Pin Curl, by Junior, syrs 1 F. E. Peek's b h Celebate 11, by Le Capucini—Love Dart, 6yrs 2 Captain D. S. K. Forgan's gr h Hurry de Savoie, by Filibert de Savoie —Hurry Off, syrs 3 Twelve started. Won by a head, a similar distance between second and third. Winner bred by E. Cooper Bland, and trained by Captain C. F. Elvey at Malton, Yorkshire.'

Union Jack, who was formerly owned by Captain Harvey, won the Watt Memorial Plate at Beverley and the Great National Breeders' Foal Plate at Redcar last season. As a yearling he was sold for 500 guineas. The Northumberland Plate is popularly known as "The Pitmen's Derby" in the north of England.—"Binocular."

THE IRISH DERBY ORWELL COLT SCORES (United Press Asioclntlon—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received June 23, 12.30 p.m.) ,-■:.. LONDON, June 22. On the opening day of The Curragh Derby. Meeting ■ today, the following was the result of the IRISH £3500; second £480, third £320; for three-year-old entire colts and fillies; 1J miles. D. Sullivan's br c Rosewell, by Orwell—Bower of Roses, by Roseland '~ .... 1 Sir Abe Bailey's br c Golden Sov- • ereign," "by Monarch—Fleche d'Or 2 D. S. Kennedy's b c Manorite, by Manna—Wedding Favour .... 3 Nine started. Won by two lengths, three-quarters of a length between second and third. Winner bred by Captain O. M. D. Bell, and trained by Colonel A. J. Blake at The Curragh.Rosewell shared with Knight's Caprice the honour of being champion two-year-old in Ireland last season. He won both his races, the Railway Stakes, 6 furlongs, and the Beresfbrd Stakes, 1 mile, each at The Curragh. The dam, Bower of Roses, by the William the Third mare Roseland and descending from La Fleche, and a winner of the Irish Cesarewitch, was bought by Captain Bell for 500 guineas when in foal to Orwell. The resultant progeny was purchased at the Newmarket Sales for 480 guineas by Mr. Sullivan, who is well known as the breeder of the Derby winner Windsor Lad. Orwell, of course, is the famous Gainsborough horse who took all before him as a two-year-old in 1931 -when racing as the Golden Hair colt, and who won the Two Thousand Guineas the following season, but then sensationally failed in the Derby, his first defeat.—"Rangatira.."