DERBY DAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25866, 9 June 1945, Page 6

DERBY DAY

GREAT INTEREST IN RACE KING’S COLT ENGAGED (Rec 9 p m.) LONDON, June 8. England is in the grip of the Derby fever and election issues have taken second place. Experts are at sea over the likely result of the race, but they agree that the horses with the most impressive form are Dante, the favourite, Court Martial, Royal Charger, Chamossaire, High Peak, Sunstorm, and V colt, Rising Light wound up his training with a good gallop. The Evening News says, if there, is one year more than another when the public would hope for a royal victory this * S This is likely to be the last Derby at Newmarket. The rush to Newmarket began yesterday afternoon. Two hundred racegoers were left behind on one train at Liverpool Street and others overflowed later trains. Railway officials said that many travellers did not know where they were going to sleep when thdy arrived at Newmarket. Many are not particularly interested in the Oaks, which was run to-day, but are prepared to spend two nights in the open if necessary t °lffs t es e tiS e ated that £IO,OOO 000 will change hands on the Derby, which will be run to-morrow. Bookmakers, of whom there are more now than at any time in the past six years, are doing a fabulous business.