CLASSICS IN ENGLAND

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 145, 19 June 1944, Page 6

CLASSICS IN ENGLAND

OAKS AND DERBY WINNERS Recd. 7 p.m. London, June 17. The .fourth War Derby was run today and resulted:—Ocean Swell 1, Teheran 2. Happy Landing 3. Twenty started. Neck; short head. Time, 2 min. 31sec. Ocean Swell brought off a big surprise when he won the Derby. He is a home-bred coll, by Blue Peter from Jiffy, who goes back to a line from which the present Lord Rosebery’s father bred' ma-ny winners. It gave Lord Rosebery much satisfaction that his previous Derby winner, Blue Peter, should have been the successful sire. The race was run at a slow pace until the seven furlongs, after which it suddenly quickened. Blue Peter's time in 1939 was 2min. 36 3-ssec. Teheran, who was second, had previously finished third behind Garden Path and Growing Confidence in the Two Thousand Guineas. Yesterday the Oaks Stakes resulted: Hycilla I,'Monsoon 2, Kannabis 3. Length; length and a-half. Time, 2 min. 30 3-ssec. Hycilla did not run as a two-year-old, and at her only previous start she ran second in the Maiden Stakes, for three-year-olds. The winner is trained by Captain Boyd-Rochfort, who has some of the King’s horses under his charge. Happy Landing, who finished third in the Derby, was bought last season at 13,500 guineas with the Derby in view.