FREAK BET ON DERBY
, It is not very often that a bookmaker looks ahead two years when offering odds On a race, but, according mfember of the ring ha*? laid Mr. Adair Dlghton, the '^'Special-Gonimissiojier of that paper, 250 .to l.that he; vannot, name the Derby winner of 1940. Mr. Dightori, in accepting the odds, has nominated a chestnut colt by Blenheim which was catalogued for sale at the Doncaster sales .this year. The youngster, foaled in March, was bred by Captain Farr, of the Worksop Manor Stud, and he was the only son of Blenheim, offered at Doncaster. He is bred very much on the same lines as that great horse Donatello 11, being by Blenheim from Racla, by Clarissimus. He was purchased at Doncaster by Miss Dorothy Paget, who gave 7500 guineas for him. Miss Paget, who has not met with the success she deserves with her yearling purchases, paid 15,000 guineas last year for the Fairway—Golden Hair colt Colonel Payne, who has yet to win a race.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 89, 12 October 1938, Page 13
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170FREAK BET ON DERBY Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 89, 12 October 1938, Page 13
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