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THE HONGKONG DAILY
MANNA'S DERBY."
PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 7TH, 1925
THE KING CONGRATULATES MR. H. E. MORRISS.
Mr. H. E. Morriss, the owner of Manna,, told Daily Mail, reporter while his borse was being unanddled :-
"This is a very great niément. I told my friends all along that he would win and yet i never expected I should feel so bowled over with excitement when he did win. I am not surprised and yet I am surprised.
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All Shanghai is on him, I can tell you! I shoubing have liked to see them ler down, but I felt sure they wouldn't be.
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I am proud of the horse and of every body concerned. It is a beautiful animal, wonderfully trained and wonderfully handled.
He walked away to tea with Mr. Solly Joel. Soon breathless messengers hurried about for news of him The King, who had hoped so much for his own horie, yanted to congratulate hin
At last he was found. No other owner gave him a warmer, handshake than did His Majesty.
It is a long time since the Derby has attracted so much attention mainly he cause the resul: was quite open until the very last moment There was no popular favourite and very little interest was felt in any individual horse, but the amali punter felt that be had the opportunity of his life. Certainly the public paid a much attention to the contest ca ever an
a leading the Times devoted article to it on the day of the race, while I should say sweepstakes abound as b
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as ever.
The tipsters all went to pieces; there were no favourities but as usus! most money was on Manna not merely because it is a small horse and therefore good off a bad course but because "Steve" Donoghue, the idol jockey of the public. was riding it. It won easily heating the Aga Khan's Zionist by eight lengths in a canter, the Sirdar owned by Mr. A. K. Macomber being third. Naturally Mr. H. E. Morrisa is very pleased. He paid co guinens for it at Doucaster as a yearling and it won the Two Thousand Guineas for him. Clearly it is a better horse than we thought but I doubt if it was quite up to It will in absolutely first class farin. short not be a very memorable Derby for anything save the all weather.
HALF A DALE PREVIOUS NIGHT.
It camot, indeed, be said that the Derby day of 1925 provided much pleasure to the spectators. The crowds that pour- ed on to the Downs found the bookmakers replacing stands that had been blown down in the night by a half gale, and the conditions generally were dépressing. Yet the good temper of the racegoers was admirable.
The King and Queen, the Duke and Duchess of York and Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles arrived on the course at one o'clock. They had travelled from Victoria by special train.
The outward traffic plans worked splen- didly but with the mud all turned up by the wheels there was difficulty in getting away from the course while a number of cars were damaged in manoeuvring in the motor-parks.
Every train that left London for Epson was suratinised by detectives, and the police remarked that if the threatened clash between rival race gangs became A fact, it would not be for want of police vigilance. All the booths on the Downs. were searched just after dawn.
UBIQUITOUS BRELLA MAN
Buy a 'brella, sir?" The voices of the bookmakers were loud enough, but the voice of the ambrella man was louder. He Stood in the streaming rain inside the course, and he wore a large and shiny smile. Water dripped off his hat. His hoots were muddy. He was wet through. But he was happy.
Round him thronged a'crowd of Derby folk-men in silk bats and white spats, men in bowlers and brown boots, women in fashionable clothes and women from Bermondsey. He dealt out his umbrellas at 35. a time, as fast as he could take the
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See the race in comfort, ladies and gentlemen," he bawled. Buy your brella i These 'brellas were made specially for Derby Day 1 Guaranteed for ever!": Grey clouds hung over the crowded downs. The rain which began at dawn pattered endlessly down, falling on the massed ranks of motor-cars which stood in wet battalions, falling on the police- men at the muddy cross-roads, falling on the hundreds of thousands of mackin- toshed people who swarmed beside the course, falling on the shouting,, book- makers, falling on the newly painted grandstand.
The downs were a study in grey and green, with a splash of gold where the course had defied the rain. Still the Derby Day throng's enthusiasm was not damp. One of the few rnen who did not wear a macintosh was nn. old fellow with a white beard, who stood in the mud by the roadside and sang in quavering voice. It ain't gonna rain no mot" He on lots of coppers for his heroism. An. ther man stood in the midst of the crowd and played,
"Take a pair of Sparkling eyes," on a bugle, but the throng were more intent on spotting winners than on taking eyes.
People splashed ahout all the thousands of them-ith cheerful grins. When one of them slipped over, somebody helped him up and asked him," Going to swim ome, mate." As for the bookies it would take more than rain to suhdee the They shouted until their faces were pur ple. You cannot trust the weather hut you can trust the cld firm" they yelled.
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FIEROIC WOMEX FUNTERS. The women were just heroines. They atrolled about jauntily with umbrellas over their heads and did not care a twopence. Two maidens saw a fat man in a shiny topper slide over in the mud.. of the detectives," they said. You can tell it by the way he falls."
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In the grandstand were the folk of May- fair. You never saw such beautiful macintoshes as "the women wore lovely things of fawn and purple. As for the men. their spats were bedraggled, but their smiles would not wear off.
When the King and Queen drove up there was a cheer which swept along the course. Their Ilajesties, as they stepped out of the carriage, glanced. at the grey sky and
then hurried into the stand, but reappear- ed smilingly in the Royal Box.
There is not much more to be said. People wended their weary way homeward more or less wet through. There were no accidents worth speaking about, there wan no rowdyism there were armies of for- eigners present. especially Americans, there really was a vast crowd though I have seen larger at Epsom, and there was general good temper..
DONOGHUE'S SIXTH DERBY.
Meantime Donoghue has now won six Derbies-1913 Pommera, 1817 Gay Crusa der (both at Newmarket owing to the war) 1821 Humorist, 1929 Captain Cuttle, 192: Papyrus and 1925 Manna. Archer also won six-alf at
Afterwards
Mr. Morriss said, was won- derful." Steve said "Manna von as he liked." Possibly the bookmakers dropped a bit, but they can afford it. Lord Aator once again bas "missed the aim of his racing career but on the form shown not one of the other competitors cut any ice. Curiously till now, the 2,000 Guin eas winner has not won the Derby since
1911.
Derby Night throughout the West end was characterized by lavish entertaining, and festivities continned until early next morning There were more than 2,000 guests at the Savoy and 40 guests at Mr." Morriss dinner party at Claridge's (al- ready reported.) Balloons which, when inflated, became heads of Derby favourites were a feature of the favoura-N.-C. Daily News,
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