RACING IN ENGLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20596, 21 June 1930, Page 13

RACING IN ENGLAND.

ASCOT GOLD CUP RESULT. BOS WORTH BEATS HOTWEED. LONDON, Juno 19. The Royal Ascot meeting was continued to-day, the chief event resulting as follows : ASCOT GOLD CUP. A cup valtle £SOO, added to a sweepstake of £2O each for starters, with £4500 added (£5500 for the winner, £7OO for the second, and £3OO for tho third); for entire colts and fillies, Three-year-olds, 7.7, four-year-olds 9.0, older horses 9.4, mares allowed 31b. To start at the Cup post, and go once round; 2 22 miles. BOSWORTH, Lord Derby's, b or br c, by Son-in-Law —Serenissima, 4yrs., 9.0 1 HOTWEED, M. Edward Esmond's, b c, by Brulcur—-Seaweed, 4yrs., 9.0 2 THE BASTARD, Lord Rosebery's, b c, by ' Spion Ivop—Valescure, 4yrs., 9.0 3 Sovcn started. Bosworth won by a length with tho third horse three lengths farther back. Bosworth had only one race as a two-year-old, running third in the Hurst Park Great Two-year-old Stakes. Last season, as a three-year-old, he started eight times for two wins, throo seconds and one third. His first placed performance was second to Modder in the Royal Standard Stakes, one mile, at Manchester in May, and in the following month he ran third in the King Edward VII. Stakes, 1£ miles, at Ascot. In July ho won the St. George Stakes, 1 milo 5 furlongs, at Liverpool, and in August, tho Rothschild Plato, IJ>miles, at Windsor. Then camo Bosworth's notablo performance in the St. Leger Stakes, about 1 milo 6 furlongs 132 yards, at Doncaster, in September, when ho was beaten a short head by the Derby winner Trigo. His last raco for the season was in tho Jockey Club Stakes, If miles, at Newmarket in October, when ho was onco again beaten a short head, this time by Cyclonic. With the One Thousand Guineas won by Fair Isle and the Ascot Gold Cup by Bosworth, Lord Derby is having a very successful season. Bosworth is one of the good horses Lord Derby owes to his purchase in 1912 of tho nuiro Gondolette, then 10 years old, for 1550gns. Gondolette produced Serenissima, dam of Bosworth, in 1913, and in 1921 Sansovino, winner of the Derby in 1924. Uio total value of stakes won by Gondolctto's pro geny up to the end of Inst, season was £24,006. Serenissima has been even more profitable for Lord Dorby, for up to the end of last season her progeny had won £42,193 in stakes. Selene, by Chaucer, won £14,386, Tranquil, by Swvnford, £21,909 (including the One Thousand Guineas and St. Leger Stakes in 1923), and Bosworth £2789 last season.

Hotweed, who ran second to Bosworth won the Grand Pri* de Paris last year.