SANSAVINO’S DERBY WIN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19032, 7 June 1924, Page 6

SANSAVINO’S DERBY WIN

TYPICAL SCENES. GREAT GATHERING OF ROYALTIES. LONDON, Juue 4. Though the jollification on Derby Bay was carried out under most unpleasant conditions, the enthusiasm of the crowds at Lord Derby’s victory was unequalled since Minoru’s -will- the crowd remembering that Lord Derby’s family had been trying for ever a century to win the Blue Ribbon. The family’s lust win was in 1787. The traffic on the roads broke all records. Some private char-a-bancs came from the South Wales mining districts, but the most prominent feature was the Australian cavalcade of buses, which recalled the procession filled with Tomfnies ttfshed to The Yypres salient in the war. Fifty-one buses with fifteen hundred A’nstfalitins and-New Zealander;) left Australia House. Eight were all decked with Australian flags. Many! also carried kangaroo mascots. Thd crush was so great at Epsom that the Australians did ijnt. reach the reserved 'spai-e.'. and saw lit tle of the racing. The majority sat in their buses all day lung, deriving.entertainment from watching bookies, gypsies, and costers garbed in pearlies ri(ling-<in donkey-carts and gen--:tte>nen:.apparently' 'distributing gold wytches, fonntiriu pens, and thank notes, ■Most .of the Dominion visitors supported the ...wiuuiij', also Bullock’s , mount, on shntimeiital- grounds. For the same reason tlu;y-did’well'in the first two .■fiees/tkp;4V-innors of which were traine'd ’|Jy 'Stanley Wool ton.

■ The King and Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Duke of Connaught, the Queen of Rumania and her sister, ■ the Infanta Beatrice of Spain; left Victoria, at midday and received a great, reception on the course. The first and second races were run in a rainstorm. Large numbers of North Country men camo specially to back Lord Derby’s horse, and their enthusiasm, when Sansovino won in a canter, was uuboumlml.

One' small party of Liverpool business men, which dined at the Hotel' Cecil in the evening, were £2OOO richer than at lunch-time. For the fourth time since the war, Lord Astor was, second. Steve Donoghue, on Defiance, after winning three consecutive Derbys, finished last. The King entertained fifty members of the Jockey. Club at dinner at Buckingham Palace, the Queen dining with the Countess of Derby at Stratford Place, where the King’s guests later went for a dance. Harcourt Johnstone, Liberal member for East Willesdcn, won £19,000 in the Caleiitta Sweep, as the result of a half shure in St. Germans. He sold -a half share for £3500. .Millard, an electrical engineer of Nottingham, won the London Stock Exchange sweep of £50,000, but sold a half share of the ticket for £2750.

(The Lord. Derby of 1787 won the eighth Derby with Sir Peter Teazle, by Highflyer, so that 137 years have passed before the honour again descends on Stanlev House.)

WINNER OF CALCUTTA SWEEP. LONDON, June 5. A message from Nairobi (Kenya), says that Captain Burman, aged thirty, a single man, drew Sansovino in the Calcutta sweepstake. Ho is a partner in a big game outfitting firm and purchased Jive tickets with Mrs Winifred Schalk, a Nairobi dressmaker. It was arranged that Burman should have two-fifths and Mrs Schalk three-fifths. They sold half a share to a Calcutta man who cabled an offer on Tuesday for thirty thousand rupees.

Captain Burman, who is a Londoner, says that he will not give up work at Kenya, which is the best country in the world.

MOTORS IN THE MUD THE MORNING AFTER THE DERBY SCENES ON EPSOM DOWNS. London, June 5. l.psotu Downs presented an amazing spectacle on the morning after Derby Day. Derelict motor-cars, . motor coiiches and lorries, which went to yesterday’s Derby and had been left overnight had sunk in the mini. Over 100 omnibuses were thus stranded. Manv passengers slept ill them. A breakdown gang were busy throughout the, night liberating vehicles. Steam eranc.s were sent out to assist in the work. Gypsies, farmers and others reaped a rich reward helping out private ear owners. To-day, though the weather is fine, the stewards, owing to the state of the ground, took the unprecedented step of abandoning the first race and postponing another. ’The remaining races were run on the circular track, which was not seriously affected.

CASUAL JOTTINGS The Auckland and Dunedin. winter meetings conclude to-day. The contest for the jockev premiership is assuming a wry interesting aspect. M. McCajteh's two wins at Otaki. keep him on top 'with. 46 wins, but (J. Emerson, who; lode four winners at Wingntui, goes- up into second position with 44. Then follow J. Barry (43), A. Reed and H. Giay'(3B each) and C. Reed 33. Today’s fixtures may see further changes-'in the’positions. Pamlona, who won .the Otao-o Steepiechase was 1 Successful- in the same race last year. Prior to his appearance on Tuesday his only race this season was in the Great Western Steeplechase at Riverton pn , faster Monday, Whichhe also 'won "for the second tipie- He is a half-brother to Lbchella, and if he goes on all right in /lite meantime, he will have to be reckoned with in the important country events this winter; Tjie Wpibkhdwn trainer,... F. .Wvis, has ‘.vacated Glen ora Park 'ami has ■ transferred'’his. team to AvondalK It

is his intention to train his horses at the suburban track for the time being but whether he w T ill remain there permanently has not yet been decided.

Taranaki horses are performing very well at present, Carnbee, Ecuador. and Arsene Lupin were in the money at Otaki; Income and Lochsou were second on Tuesday at Ellerslie, where Lochson and Yoma scored on Thursday, and Captain Sarto won a double at Dunedin. It is reported from Hawera that the Wanganui double winner and promising steeplechaser, San Fowte, has nroken down.

Marque l (ur, who has won upwards of £lOOOO in stakes during his career is to have a long spell. Rational has also been sent home for a wellearned rest.

Owner-trainer R. Johnson, of New Plymouth, showed good judgment when he decided to take Captain Sarto to Dunedin, as he has won two good races in as many starts. He is only a young horse, being a five-year-old gelding by Sarto —Tangimoana. Tangimoana, who is by San Fran, was a good performer herself and it is interesting to note that this is the celebrated Mermaid family to which belong Pilliewinkic and Ballymena. Sarto, amongst others, sired a good one in John Barleycorn and another of his progeny, Art, won good hurdle races. iu?.idin } ; the Grand National. Captain Sarto is a very promising hurdler. Pompey, winner of the King George Handicap at Ellerslie on Thursday, is a three-year-old brown gelding by' Lusullus—Seaquil, owned by Mr. H. Friedlander, better known as the owner of Pavo. He was raced three times unsuccessfully as a two-year-old, and commenced the present season with an unplaced preformance, following upon which he won the Avondale Guineas from Miss Egypt and Queen March. This was regarded at the. time as a very promising performance but he subsequently lost form, and had nine successive defeats registered against him up to the Easter meeting at Ellerslie, where he ran third to Zircon and Esthonia in the Islington Welter Handicap. That this was a sign of returing form he indicated at Avondale the following week, when he ran second to Aerofortis in the Mornington Welter Handicap. He may continue to improve.

J. Roach, who had been an inmate of the local hospital for three weeks as a result of injuries he received when Royal Fame fell in the Kaitbke Hurdle Race at the Steeplechase Meeting, returned to his home in Auckland last Saturday. The popular horseman is not yet thoroughly recovered, and will not be seen in the saddle at the Auckland meeting. Mr. W. A. Fuller; a patron of C. Pritchard’s Trcntham stables, has purchased ■from Messrs. S. and F. Webb, of Wanganui, the three-year-old gelding Don Fisher, by Guianforte —Miss Fisher, full sister to Sir Fisher, :»y Maniapoto—Dear Dolly, who is also the dam of Dolly Fisher, dam of Santonin and Santiago. Wassail, the best hack at Otaki, and incidentally the best seen out for some considerable time, won on Wednesday in only l-sscc. slower time than Mireusonta. Moreover, he won easily, while Mireusonta was doing his best. It is said that. Wassail was bought for less than £4O, and he has been broken in only about five months.

Although betting, as wo know it, is practically prohibited in America, it does not deter racing clubs from giving great stakes, ami the following amounts were won by the leading horses for tho season just closed: —Zez, £54,401; In Memorial)!, £17,344; St. James, £17,336; Chaclet, £14,800; Vigil, £12,535; Wise Councillor, £12,122; Beau Butler, £11,600; Diogenas, £9745; Dunlin, £9330; My Heart, £7890; Rialto, £7873; Sarazen, £7576. Tho Argentine has been tho largest buyer in the English blood stock market for a number of years, and Argentine breeders buy nothing but the best available horses. There tho totalisator is the betting medium, and stakes arc very valuable. Breeders in the Argentine, as in the United States, would not be prepared to pay fancy prices for sires unless they were certain of being able to get their money back. The totalisator provides such good stakes that owners are able to give big prices for yearling, and race them with a profit without having to bet. In recent years Argentine breeders have purchased in England Tracery (£53,000), Cyilene (£25,000), Craganour (£30,000), Jardy (£30,000), Vai d’Or £28,000), Diamond Jubilee (30,000 guineas), Polar Star, Gendal, Pctcrmaritzburg and Your Majesty. Nominations closed on Wednesday last for the principal Australian spring handicaps, ami also for the Australian classics. Several New Zealanders have been entered. For tho Epsom Handicap, one mile, the following have been nominated: —Pavo, Guncase, Mountain, Lion, The Harp, Glentruin, Munhaupo, Loyal Irish. Tehimana. Patiti, Ki.l ochra, Highland, Phoenix Park, Parody. Cold Steel, Red Wink, Muscari, Altort, King Merv. Entries for the Metropolitan Handicap, one mile and a-ha If are: —Guncase, Mountain Lion, Ballymena, Loyal Irish, Tehimana, Killochra, Highland, Phoenix Park, Te Kara, Parody, Cold Steel, Red Wink, Muscari. Twenty-seven youngsters have been nominated for the 1925 Sires’ Produce Stakes, twenty-nine for the Champagne Stakes, and fifty-six for the A.J.C. Derby. For the Breeders’ Plato, seven were entered, for the Gi me rack Stakes seven, December Stakes five, and Adrian Knox Stakes four. For (.he 1926 St. Luger there were thirty-two from New Zealand, and the sires nominated for the 1926 Sires’ Produce Stakes were Martian and Hymestra. Sansavino credited Lord Derby with the largest winning stake in connection with the English Derby on Wcaosday. Of /the original entries 35 sovs. forfeit whs declared for 169, and 5 sovs. for 66. H This leaves in 98, and at 50 sovs. the fees work out at 4900 so vs. Then Ahcre is the forfeit money, totalling. sovs., while the added money is 3000 sovs. Deducting the share that goes to the second and third, and the winner’s entrance fee, there is left over £ll,OOO for thr lucky owner of the successful horse- Last year’s total —a record itself —amounted to £11 ; 335. Strange as it may seem, less than £lOOO is allocated to the owners of the second and third horses. Sire Rosebery, winner of tho Great Northern Steeplechase, affords

n. striking instance of a horse attaing instant success in his '"■■st season over country. Forntcrl’y owned and raced by his breeder. Mr. R. Knox, Sir Rosebery, who is n halfbrother to Penury Rose .being by Sir Knox out of Merrv Rose, was sold last month to another Opnki trainer. W. Garrett. He is seven years nld and wns not raced until four years when he started four times, being piit immediately to hurdling. His only time in the money wns third in flic Motco Hack Hurdles at tho Nanior Park winter meeting. As n five-year-old he had 15 races, winning two, being second twice, and third once. His successes were both on, the tint, the jumners race on the third day of the Wellington, summer meeting, and the Nelson Cup. Last n -i-r.T) h'« started five times, winning once and being twice nurd. His win. was in the Spring Hurdles al tho New Zealand Cup meeting and he ran third in tho High-weight Han dicap on the third and last day of the Wellington summer meeting. This season has been his heaviest so far. Including the Auckland meeting at present in progress, ho nas nnu 15 races. He was third in tnc toigjhwejght nt the Masterton Spring meeting, won the hurdles on the first day Of tho spring mooting at Trenthain' boating Sir Fanciful and Lochson, was third to the same two horses in the hurdles on the first day of the Now Zealand Cup meeting, second to Sir Fanciful on the last day of the Manawatu summer meeting, and third in the high-weight handicap on the concluding day. His next placed performance was at Egmont in the colours of his new owner, who purchased him after his initial attempt at steeplechasing, which was at the Fleet meeting at Trentham, whore he ran off in the straight. At Hawera he ran third in the Hack Steeplechase the first day and won the Opeke Steeplechase the concluding day San Forte running third. Going on to Wanganui, he was looked upon as unbeatable in the Hack Steeplechase the first day and was going well when ho was brought down by another horse in front of the stand. At Ellerslie, where he was taken some time prior to the meeting in order to get schooling over proper fences ho made a very good impression in his work, and he won the Gideon Lane Steeplechase on Tuesday, for which he received a penalty of 31b for his big engagement in the Great Northern Steeplechase. There is every reason to expect Sir Rosebery to win more good races.