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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.

18

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!