2,000 GUINEAS FIRST ENGLISH CLASSIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 966, 8 May 1930, Page 10

2,000 GUINEAS FIRST ENGLISH CLASSIC

DiOLITE’S WIN ANTICIPATED United P.A.—Ey Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, Wednesday. The Newmarket First Spring Meeting. which opened yesterday, was continued today, when the first of the season’s big classic races resulted as fol--lows: —- 2.000 GUINEAS STAKES A Sweepstake of £IOO each, half forfeit if declared by Tuesday of last week, or £5 only if declared by first Tuesday in July, 1929; with 2,000 guineas added: for three-year-old entire colts and fillies. Owner of second horse 10 per cent, and third 5 per cent, of whole stakes. To be run over the Rowley Mile course straight mile. (Closed with 2SI entries.) DIOLITE (Sir IT. Hirst), b c, by Diophon—Needle Rock, 9.0 1 PAR ADI N E (W. Cazalet), blk c, by Grand Parade—Jesting Maid, 9.0 2 SILVER FLARE (Major J. Courtauld), br c by Pharos—Silver Wand, 9.0 3 There were 2S starters. Dioiite won by two lengths, the third horse a length away. The race was worth nearly £12,000. Interesting Breeding Probably the most interested New Zealander in Diolite’s success will be Mr. John Donald, the owner of the Westmere (Wanganui) stud. Dioiite was got by Diophon, a son of Grand Parade (by Orby from Grand Geraldine, by Desmond) and Donnetta (the dam of the 1.000 Guineas Stakes winner Diadem—one of the bonniest mares that has ever graced the turf—and of Diadumenos,- the sire of Diacquenod, who has gfven us the speedy two-year-old Hard Words), by Donovan, a son of Galopin. Grand Parade won the Derby. He is the sir© of Grand Knight, who won several good races in New Zealand, and is now at the Westmere stud. Diacquenod is also standing at Westmere, so that Mr. Donald has every reason to be pleased with the result of the first of the big English classics this season, for Grand Parade also gets the credit of siring Paradine, runnerup to Dioiite yesterday, Silver Flare, which finished third, was got by Pharos, a son of Phalaris and Scapa Flow, a union which also resulted in Fairway, one of England’s best performers, whose defeat in the Derby a couple of years ago was puzzliifg. Will the Winner Stay? One presumes that Dioiite ranked as the nominal favourite for yesterday’s race. Anyhqjv. he is the senior handicapper’s free “tip,” as Mr. Dawkins rates this son of Diophon as the best of last season’s youngsters that came up for review when the Free Handicap had to be framed. Most people will agree with "Mr. Dawkins (says a London writer), though in a year in which nothing stood out from among its fellows it was possible to make out an almost equally good case for certain of the other blue-blooded animals that had engaged in their* first season’s racing. The Free Handicap suggested that the official compiler had had to do a deal of thinking, and in the end there was only a matter of 41b. between the top-weight and Hie sixth on the lisL Dioiite did not immediately assert himself, as in his initial race, when running as the Needle Rock colt, he was well trounced by both fSlenheim and th© Spring Maid filly, while he was also beaten later in the same month by Quarrat-al-Ain. Diolite’s “Hat-Trick” Nothing, however, got in front of him afterward, and he complicated his first year’s tvork with a “hat-trick.” which ended with the Molecomb Stakes c:t Goodwood. It may be to the benefit of Dioiite that he should have been retired for the season so early as the second day August, and tnere is every expectation that he will figure prominently in the “classics” and races of a like type. He may not commend himself to everybody as a Derby colt on the score of breeding, as his sire was not famed for his stamina, though he got away with the Two Thousand right enough, and it is in the first of the “classics” that Dioiite may likewise be seen to most advaiitagc.