THE ST. LEGER

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1074, 11 September 1930, Page 12

THE ST. LEGER

WON BY SINGAPORE RUSTOM PASHA THIRD United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright Reed. 10.53 a.m. LONDON, Wed. The Doncaster meeting, which I opened yesterday, was continued toj day. The leading event was the last i of the big classics for the three-year-i olds, the St. Leger, a race instituted j no less than 154 years ago. i This event resulted as follows: ST. LEGER STAKES 1 A sweepstake of £5 each, £2O extra if not struck oat by first Tuesday in Julv, t 1929, £25 more if not struck out by • last Tuesday in March, 1930, and £SO in addition if hot struck out by SepI teraber 4, 1930: with £ 1,000 added. For ! three-year-old colts and fillies; colts l 9.0, fillies 8.11. Second horse, 10 per cent, j of stake; third horse, 5 per cent.: breeder of winner, £SOO. (Closed with l 340 entries). St. Leger course about I mile 0 furlongs and 132 yards. ; SINGAPORE (Lord Glanely), b o, by | Gainsborough—Tetrabbazia, 9.0 .. 1 j PARENTHESIS (Lord Woolavington), j b c, by Son-in-Law—Bracket. ] RUSTOM PASHA (H.H. the Aga Khan), b c, by Son-in-Law—Cos. ' ";° s | Thirteen started. Won by a length and J a-half, with three-quarters of a length i separating second and third. Last year the St. Leger, won by I Trigo, was worth £11,281, of which ! the winner’s sharewas £9,089. Yesterday’s victor, Singapore, was j not raced as a two-year-old. His ; owner. Lord Gian ley, has won quite a ; number of other classic races in England, among them being the Derby in ! 1919 with Grand Parade (the sire of Grand Knight, now at the West mere i stud). Gainsborough, sire of Singa- J pore, himself won the Derby in .1918, ! when all the classics were run at New- ! market, the famous Epsom course : beihg used Cor military purposes, in common with other well-known racing headquarters. Parenthesis carries the colours made* famous in recent years by the Derby winner, Coronach. Bracket, the dam of Parenthesis, as a three-year-old won the Cesarewitch, 2 i miles, ten years back, carrying 7.7 and defeating a big field of 32. The runner-up to Singapore is bred to stay on both sides of his pedigree. Rustom Pasha, who failed to run on in the Derby after being handily placed at Tattenham Corner, and subsequently won the valuable Eclipse Stakes at Sandown, this being run over a mile and a-quarter. Jt had. been contended that Rustom Pasha could not stay, and his failure to do better than third in yesterday’s St. Leger—a genuine test of stamina —rather supports this contention. However, that he managed I to get third, a little over two lengths | from the winner, indicates that he hung jon a bit better than his critics exjpected. It was recently announced that Lord 1 Glanely had expressed his intention of i retiring from the ownership of race- | horses, of which he had a big team j Perhaps his success will influence this | well-known sportsman to change his mind, or at least to postpone the fulfilment of his intention. *