BANK HOLIDAY MEETING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22911, 19 June 1936, Page 5

BANK HOLIDAY MEETING

WINTER SHOW AND RACING CARNIVAL

KING’S HORSE WINS

UNRECOGNISED ROYAL VICTORY (Fkom Oub Own Cobrespondenx) (By Air Mai!) LONDON, April 18. The King, Burl Derby and Captain Donald P, Slmson each had a win at Kcmpton Park on Easter Monday, and it go happened the two horses of the King and the Earl brought off the tote double. There wore 82’ lucky anticipators of these events, and each one pocketed £4O 12s for a 10s ticket. The King registered his first success on the flat when Feola (filly by Friar Marcus—Aloe, by Son-in-Law) won the Faster Plate, a threc-yenr-old handicap of seven furlongs. It was an exciting race, for Feola beat Fairplay by only a neck. The public generally did not realise the fact that the horse belonged to tin? King, for all the horses belonging to the-late King have been? leased for it period to Lord Derby, and so the filly ran in the latter’s colours. Feola was one of the outsiders in a field of 17, and the result was received without enthusiasm because it was not recognised as being a royal victory. Friar Marcus Was King George’s- favourite sire. For Feola he gave 3000 guineas. The horse ivas bred by Lord St. Davids, and is trained by W. R. Jarvis, at Newmarket. Fred Fox, the successful veteran jockey, won his first race since his serious accident at Doncaster last September. , Lord Derby's borsc was Guiscard (Gay Crusader —Selene, by Chaucer). This eight-year-old gelding won the Queen’s Prite, a handicap race over two miles on the round course. ’ This was the chief event of the day, and again the horse was not n favourite. He had been dropped well in the handicap, but the expectation was that younger horses would beat ,him. At Liverpool recently he had run Well over a distance too short to bring out his stamina, and with the going coming softer again in the last few days he was able to show his best. The favourite was the Goodwood Stakes Winner of last year, Hoplltc, but after settling down in a good position be steadily lost ground until lie was last of all, and then finished tailed off. After the race Mr H. L. Cottrill, Hoplitc’s trainer, said; “ The horse was attacked by ‘set-fast,’ a complaint that is the equine equivalent to lumbago in human beings. He could not gallop at all.” Hoplite’s owner is Colonel Lionel Montagu.

numbering 27. Cnrraghmore. who belongs to the King, took the lead smoothly at the distance, but Empire United robbed him of the race, Cnrraghmore barely stays a mile, and though he might have lasted home on (op of the ground he weakened . r >o yards from the post and was narrowly beaten. There had been snow in the morning. In turf circles Captain Donald Simson is generally referred to by bis second name. Petrie. ANOTHER ROYAL WIN. On the opening day of the Newmarket meeting, King Edward registered another success with another filly. This three-year-old horse, called Parity, is by Blandford —Paritat, by Lycaon. She ran in the colours of Lord Derby, and having started favourite the victory pleased the majority of onlookers. Parity bad run creditably over a longer course at Nottingham a week ago and became a firmer favourite than Lord Derby’s Diosma, who carried the stable’s first, colours. The race was the Wisbech Handicap over six furlongs. Jack Jarvis was most hopeful that

Veuve Clicquot would win despite her great weight. However, the task of conceding 321 b to Parity was beyond her, and she finished a highly creditable second. The Egerton House filly (trainer, W. Jarvis), came up the hill full of running, ami was three lengths to the good at the end, Diosma being third.

THE KING’S TWO-YEAR-OLDS. Some horses owned by the King have been put up for sale at Newmarket. They include the two-year-olds Tomboy, Keen Air, Nenia, Palomino, Sly ami Tudor Star, and the three-year-old Tiara. The two-year-olds which will be retained at the royal stable at Egerton House, and which are leased to Lord Derby for the present season, arc Polonaise, Pretty Spark and Fclstone. For the'seven sold on Thursday by Messrs Tattersall’s 1485 guineas was realised. The highest price was 40(1 guineas paid by Mr R. Brandon for Nenia, a bay filly by Coronach—-Stained Glass. He also bought Tiara for 220 guineas.

Captain D. Petrie Simeon's success was with his mare, Empire Unity (Spion Kop —Lioness, by Piialaris), in the Richmond Plate, a highweight handicap; one mile. The winner was bred at the national stud, and is trained at West Horsier by Captain A. B. Holland. Matona, the favourite, was fifth. Empire Unity, an aHolutc outsider so far as favouritism went, beat the Friar Marcus colt, Curraghmorc (run in Lord Derby’s colours) by a length, with another outsider in Mr D. M, Grant’s Krigo colt Ajax occupying third place, This was ♦ha biggest field of the day, runners