TUDOR MINSTREL’S WIN
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS EIGHT LENGTHS MARGIN (10 a.m.) LONDON, April 30. The Two Thousand Guineas, run at Newmarket, resulted: Tudor Minstrel, 1; Saiavan, 2; Sayajirao, 3. Fifteen started. Eight lengths; a short head. Time, 1.37 4-5. The Gaekwar of Baroda in 1946 paid 28,000 guineas for Sayajirao, a full orotner io Dante. The evening papers’ turf writers enthuse about Tudor Minstrel’s success. They say that he proved himself ‘‘the iiorse of the century” by the ease witn which tie spreadeagled the field, including his gieat rival, Petition. Gordon Richards, aiter setting the pace from .the start, sat up on the winner a furlong from the post. The Evening News says he could have won oy 20 lengths instead of eight if he so desired, yet the time was only onelii'th of a second outside the 36-year-old reepd for the race. Tudor Minstrel is now a hot favourite for the Derby.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22318, 1 May 1947, Page 6
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