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CAN COLOMBO STAY ONE AND HALF MILES AT EPSOM TO-DAY?
CONDITIONS
GOVERNING
THE CLASSIC
309 ENTRIES ARE NOMINATED
FLIP OF COIN DECIDES NAME OF RACE
"Blue Riband Of Turf” Coined By Disraeli
CONDITIONS OF THE RACE
Derby Stakes (about one mile and a-half) of £100 each. £50 | forfeit if declared by the Tuesday in the week before running. £25 forfeit if declared by the last Tuesday in March. 1933, or £5 only if declared by the first Tues- day in July, 1933, with £3,000 added; for entire three-year-old | colts and fillies-colts to carry 9st., fillies 8st. lbs.; owner of second receives 10 per cent, owner of third 5 per cent; breeder of winner receives £500.
UCHI
SUGI
the are
conditions
governing this year's Derby
Lord Hanely's unbeaten three-year-old, Colombo, hat to-day's Derby at Epsons.
THE MAIN TRIO
FOR TO-DAY
"The Master Boy Jockey" Of Australia.
Stakes, which will be decided at CHAMPION HORSE COST ONLY the famous Epsom, Surrey,!
"FEW HUNDRED POUNDS" course to-day and for Lord Glancy's unbeaten coll.i Colombo, is the favourite at 7 to
4.
which
The race closed on November 1. 1932, with 309 entries. Of these,
Lord Gianely. the fortunate owner of Colombo, is one of the pillars of the British: Turf.
A shipping magnate, company
the
II. H. Aga Khan nominated 11, and director and member of the Jockey Lord Glonely 10. Miss Dorothy Club. he has already won Paget, who has entered 9, the best Derby, the Oaks, and the St. Leger. Trainer Captain Tommy Hogg of them probably being the Bland-)
trains Colombo and no less than 60 furd-Flying Home colt, which cost 4400 guineas, created a last min others for Lord Glanely at New-
markri.
uke sensation D the 1933 race
The lucky jockey is W. "Togo" when she started the worthless
Australian, who is Tuppence, which cost her 6,600 Johnstone. an
riding in England for the first guiness na a yearling.
time this year,
Gordon Richards, champion joc key, has never won the Derby, but he will have a good chance to-day on Easton, the French colt owned by Lord Woolavington.
He has had a meteoric career. In This second season as an apprentice in Sydney he rode 100 winners, and earned the title of the "master boy jockey."
In his native land he won
every
big event except the
Melbourne Cup.
Johnstone has also ridden suc.
favourite for
TRIPLE CROWN WINNERS
Hortes Successful In Guineas Derby And St. Leger
West Australian Flying Fox (1893)
(1853) Diamond Jubilee
(1900) Rock Sand (1903) Pommern (1916) *Gay Crusader
(1917) *Gainsborough
(1918) and Sceptre
| Gladiateur (1865) Lord Lyon (1866) Ormonde (1886) Common (1891) Isinglass (1803) Caltee More
(1897) Formosa (1806)
(1902) won the Two Guiness, One Thousand
Oaks, and St. Leger.
Thousand
Guineas,
War-time substitute Derby and St. Leger.
Colombo has already won t two thousand guineas,
INDIFFERENT WIN IN GUINEAS
ORWELL FIASCO RECALLED BY CRITICS
UMIDWAR CAN STAY
Will Colombo win the Derby! Never has there been a hotter favourite for the great classic of the English turf than Lord Glanely's colt.
Winner of nine races including the Two Thousand Guineas and the Craven Stakes. Colombo is looked on by most critics as an absolute certainty, and yet. In some races he has shown de- finite traces of temperament.
He displayed his masterly ability when winning the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket by a length from the French horse Easton; but he also asserted the right which so many distinguished and highly strung performers among men and women claim, to be have in an unconventional or "temperamental" manner.
He made a scene. He was led from his stable to the racecourse with a lad on his back. As soon as he entered the paddock he tried to unseat his rider and to break away from the attendant who held the leading rein.
EVENTUALLY THE LAD ON HIS BACK SLID TO THE GROUND, BUT COLOMBO CONTINUED TO REAR IN A STRONG ATTEMPT TO GET LOOSE. HE WAS THEN WALKED AWAY, BUT RETURNED IN A FEW MINUTES TO THE SAME SPOT IN THE OPEN TO BE SADDLED. IT IS USELESS TO TRY TO GET HIM INTO A STRANGE BOX TO PREPARE HIM FOR HIS RACE. HE WOULD REFUSE TO ENTER IT.
the
Colombo won, and to that ex- added to this, Umidwar's dam tent did what was expected of Uganda, who has produced good him. Just what the public ex-stayers like U1 Majeur, and pected was shown when those Oaks winner, Udaipur. Badruddin who backed him on the tote to is out of Mumtaz Mahal, who was win received afterwards a profit always brilliant and speedy, but of only 3d. on each 2s. staked. It not a sinyer.
is to be said, however, that the The great problem is, ean Colom.
H. B. the Aga Khan's Umidwar, bred by Blandford out of Uganda, In second favourite for to-day's classic at Epsom.
STEVE DONOGHUE RIDER OF
SIX DERBY WINNERS
Only Jockey To Poll Off "Hat Trick" At Epsom
The famous Jem Robinson was the only Jockey to ride six Derby winners until Steve Donoghue equalled his record.
Fred Archer rode five winners, but Donoghue is the only jockey who has ever ridden the winner of the Epsom Derby three years in succession.
Fred Archer has won the Clas slc five times and J. Watts four.
GALLANT LITTLE FRENCH HORSE
Second After Boat Journey
1878 RACE MOST OPEN
The late Lord Rosebery always referred to the 1878 Derby as the most open in his experience. In that year he ran a colt called Bonny Scotland, who, though its form was nothing to boast of, was second favourite at 4 to 1 when the
The actual favourite
was the French colt, Insulaire, who had been second to that brilliant filly, Pilgrimage, in the Two Thousand, and was a winner of the French Derby.
tote paid handsome place divi bo stand the distance, against EASTON CHANGESg fell. dends on the second and third such opposition as Umidwar, Eas- horses.
ton and Badruddin? Many critics But Colombo did not win like are wondering whether Colombo's
brilliant superlatively
horse. victory over the mile course
Al
COLOMBO'S Several times in recent years the Newmarket was sufficiently Im-
WINNINGS
Record Should Be Shattered
STAKES CAMPAIGN
Two Thousand Guiness has been pressive to warrant such confidence- won more caally. Orwell's victory in his staying powers over
two years ago was a much smooth-mile and a half at Epsom.
er and more spectacular effort.
the
*
the
HANDS
10,000 Guineas Rumoured Price
NOW SECOND FAVOURITE
Lord Woolavington Dur. chased Easton, the French horse which ran Colombo to n length in the 2000 Galneas at Newmarket recently, from Mr. Strassburger.
a brilliant speedy UMIDWAR UNTRAINED Orwell was horse and he failed to stay
Umidwar, when he ran fourth in mile and a half in the Derby. Is Columbo of the same type? Hus be the Guineas, did not give the Im- the stamina necessary to win the pression that he was fully train- Derby? That was the questioned. He showed signs of stiffness but is now Colombo may well break the re which his Guineas performance on subsequent days,
The price was not divulged, but worth his rumour places it in the neighbour- cessfully in India and France. cord of Isinglass, who won more raised widely and seriously for the reported to be fully
Columbu la bred from H. E. money in stakes-£57,465-than first time.
hood of 10,000 guineas. Morrisa's 1925 Derby winner any other racehorse. So far his Manna out of Lady Nairne, and winnings total nearly £27,000-¤
Ügure for a was, "picked up by his present phenomenal awner for a few hundred pounds. year-old thus early in the season, As a two-year-old he won £17,000 If he wins the Derby and the St. in stakes.
Leger it will mean about another: £20.000. He may also be given an easy race at Ascot-euch as the
three-
COLOMBO'S BREEDING
COLOMBO (bay colt). Lady Nairne
Manna
way, it was decided to leave the final decision to chance, and Prince of Wales's Stakes-which Lammermuir Chaucer Waffles Phalaris golden guinea was flipped aloft would add another £2,000 to his and came down "Derby," and so total. the race was named.
36 Subscribers
There
were thirty-six
Iplace as second favourite.
Colombo's form in the Craven Stakes was, however, very impres-1
without sive. He won the race jeffort, and, although some said ho
had nothing to beat, his decisiva, win made his Derby price too high for the average backer.
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Only two French colls have won the Derby since this classte was instituted more than 160 years and (1865) ngo, Gladiateur Durbar 11. (1914).
Easton WBB second favourite, with H. H. the Aga Khan'a Umid- war, for the Derby at the betting call-over lo London yesterday. Ten to one was offered against ita chance.
He ran a perfect race, his action bringing nothing but praise from the critics.'His power WAS quite apparent Colombo will If all goes well,
from his style in a gallop. another There musi
be now
Mr. J. A. Dewar's Lozingare is therefore begin his season sa doubt about his Derby prospects.
winnings of sub-four-year-old with
How long will his highly strung not to be looked down on for the first stake, run close on £50,000.
Then he needs temperament stand the strain of Derby candidate. He is a son of in 1922, and Coronach in 1926. mile, and won by Sir only win the Eclipse Stakes to these racecourse appearances, andiSolario and Love In Idleness, and
Diomed from establish a new record.
If he wins the Ascot Gold Cup the noise of, the bands, the bag (dicap. recently, carrying the top/the Derby in Manna (1925), for Rosebery 5; while those otherleight other starters. Diomed was English racing luminaries, Lord afterwards sold to an American for as well, he will surpass the total pipes, and the shouting on Epsom Woolavington, Lord Astor, and fifty guineas.
Mr. J. A. de Rothschild and Sir scribera Victor Sassoon cach nominated 6 over one entries, H.M. the King and Lord Charles Bunbury's
Lord Derby, have each entered 4.
Naming The Classic
uf Isinglass by some £10,000.
The distance of the race was in-] creased to one-and-a-half miles inj
Four years younger than the St. 1784, when colts carried Bat. 3lb.
Leger, the Derby Stakes was in-and fillies 8st but it was not until CHAMPION JOCKEY
stituted by
Earl of the advent of the sporting journal, the twelfth
Bell's Life in London" (1806), Derby, Sir Chas. Bunbury, and a few cronies who had decided on a that the Derby began to be known, sweepstake for three-year-old colta and even then it was worth only (to curry Bat, 31b.) and fillies (7st. five-and-a-half lines as a sporting 1lb.), to be run at Epsom on Thursday, May 4, 1780.
item
"Blue Riband"
Lord Woolavington has won the Derby twice, with Captain Cuttle
Fred Darling trained both these how will he react to the crowd and won the Lingfield Memorial Han-horses, and also other winners of Mr. H. E. Morriss, and Cameronian (1931), for Mr. J. A. Dewar.
Downs?
*
ANNUAL PARADE
a
The Derby is one of the few races for which there is now ON EASTON
parade, a lengthy perambulation in front of the stands and un- Gordon Richards Has
der the most trying conditions which can be imposed upon the Yet To Win Classic
nerves of a racehorse.
When he finished in the Two Gordon Richarde, the champion The decision having been AT. The number of subscribers to Jockey in England, who is attached Thousand Guineas, in rived at to Inaugurate the race, the the race had increased to 89 Into Lord Woolavington's stable. and Lord Woolavington's new
tha next thing was to give it a name. 1827, in which year
stakes who has been selected to ridation, Easton, he looked nearly all- Among the guests of the Earl of were worth £2,800 to the winner. Easton, the French horse which ran out, whereas Easton, the third Derby was the first of the three Three-figure entries (105) were re-second to Colombo in the Two favourite for the Derby, finished of the Tur. Bir ceived in 1881, and there were 145 Thousand Guineas, and which is quite strongly, and, if anything, great dictatora Chas, Bunbury. He was emphatic subscribora for 1840.
second favourite with Umidwar for nearer to Colombo than that the race should be called the By this time even Parliament be- the Derby, had a percentage of been when less than
from the post. Derby Stakes, while the Earl of gan to recognise the importance of 26.65 wins for last season." Derby was no less emphatle that the. Derby, and in 1847 it became His figures were: 269 firsts, 163. Badruddin and Umidwar, 1. H. it should be known under the customary to move the adjourn seconds, 112 thirds, 441 unplaced. the Aga Khan's entries, are both style and title of the Bunbury ment for Epsom."
Richards has, however, yet to win by Blandford, which is a sign of stamine: on the English turf, and Staker. As neither side, would give (Continued on Page 5) the Darby.
DAIRY FARM
ICE
CREAM
(Continued on Page 5)
Last Ten Derby
Winners
Lord Derby's Two Successes
HE following is a complete record of Derby winners since
1924
Call Boy Felstead
Owner
Lord Derby H.E. Morris Lord Woolavington
Frank. Curzon Sir Hugo C. Owen William Barnett
Year
1924
Horse Sansovino
front of aquist.
1925
1926
MannA Coronach
1927
1928
1929 1930
Trigo
he had.
1951
Cameronian
J. A. Dewar
题
furlong
1932
1933 -
April Fifth Hyperion
Tom Walls
Lord Derby
Blenheim.
HH, the Aga Khan
Jockey
T. Weston
8. Donoghue J. Childs
E. Elliott
H. Wragg
J. Marshall
II. Wragg F. Fox
Fred Lane
T. Weston
Record time 2.34.0, over the new course, in 1923 by Hyperion. Record, over the old course, 2.34.4 in 1920 by Spion Cop. mile 881 yards in 1821.
The old course of 1 mile 4 furlongs 20 yards was, altered, to
He was a little black horse, very honest and hard-working, but it was asking him something to run in France on the Sunday, under take the journey back to England and then compete in the Derby. Hia trainer always afterwards de clared that Insulaire "left the racc on the boat."
As it was the colt ran second to Mr. Crawfurd's Sefton in the great Epsom race. James Goater, who rode him, used to say that he would have won If he had not been Ravaged by Mr. T. Gee's Cypress as they came round the fateful corner.
Steve Donoghue; winner of the Derby on six occasions, is taking out Medieval Knight to-day. There la' no better jockey over the Epsom course than Steve.
CHEAPEST DERBY WINNER
65 Guinea Little Wonder
The 'cheapest of all Derby win- ners was Little Wonder, which cost only 65 gna at Doncaster la |1838, and which won the Derby in
1840.
This colt, which was a mere pony, standing only 14 hands 3 inches, was almost certainly, over Ithe right age.
ASURE WINNER ON ALL OCCASIONS!