SPORTING

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4019, 8 June 1920, Page 4

SPORTING

THE DERBY. Another English Derby .ha* gon< into the records, and once again "Defeat of the favourite.hae been enterec up. Tetratema,i who was -elevated tv the post of honour for this year . race, wae undoubtedly the crack two year-old performer of last season, anc with .a victory in the Two Thousanc Guineas he seemed to be in a gocK position to reward Major McCaimon far the sjreat disappointment tha. sportsman suffer eel in 1913, when liv Tetrarcli proved to be untrainabte. Tetratema'e defeat an the Derby wa> of a very complete order, and lie i& evidently not a stayer. Spurn Rap who had his name enrolled as tm Derby winntfp, was bred .in Ireland bj, the late Major Euetace Loder whe bequeathed his stud to his brother. Captain Giles Loder. So far as we "know Spicm/Kop had nothing to lite, credit prior to recording his Derby v.ietory. and a. surprise was probably Associated with, the blue ribbon contest. Spionj Kop is a son _of fepearraint (by CaWine), and a 9 Spearmint also claimed Spearwort, who finished 'third in the , Derby, the Carbine blood secured another great .advertisement. 1 A PAGE FROM THE PAST. No Derby winner in history, has been so written about as Hermit, whose sensational victory an the race of 1867 ia known as th» snowstorm Derby. ' It » often *aid that the T ace ; was run in 'a blinding snowstorm, but thiß is ,after the wee. Some days beforeMge race it was reported that Mr.ChapSS colt Had broken a. blood TeW. aid he went back in the betting tc.66 to 1, and he waa regarded as a rant 'outeSder. How Hermit came out on thi day and beat the farourrte Marksman TbT a neck i» embalmed an turi Another nobleman 'baoked Hermit to ' win £30,000 and when the horse broke a blood veeseUje laid ayamst him, to lose £100,000, which amount he had to , pay out on ,the' following Monday. •In t he many stories of this romantic Deriy we never hear of Lord Wilton's Derby dinner, irhieh preceded that ' given by the Prince of Wales. At: that dinner, ill 1866/ Sir Joseph Ha,wley rtetted MrfChapßn a level £40,000 _on , The Palhier against Hermit. Mr Chaplin atao had a level bet of five or ten thousand pounds with Mr Merry on Bermi't Marksman, which t>ai"t ran first and second.- Mr Chaplin at that time was not more than 26, apd yet beat'two. of the keenest and moVt wary otfnerjs the turf lias ever known. .