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Mr. Justice Acten, who has just reaigned, is the only example, of a High Court Judge promoted from the County Court Bench.

BRANTOME THE HORSE OF THE CENTURY?

CHAMPIONS OF THE

TURF REVIEWED: FAVOURITES THAT FAIL

It is understood that the reason against, these promotions is that it] might lead, as it has done in France, to a danger of political in-TN recent years Auence being exercised on judges, if they could look forward to much promotions as a matter of usual practice

(By Eric Rickman)

London. Ormonde belonged to the late, several English Duke of Westminster. He won the racehorses have at one stage Two Thousand Guineas, the Derby, of their careers been described in and the St. Leger of 1886, As-a turn as "the horse of the century." four-year-old he did not run until Solaris: Orwell, and Colombo; each Ascot, where on the third day he In France it has led to the de-seemed at one time to be exception won the Rous Memorial Stakes in velopment of a political section of

Ormonde The "Roarer"

the bar. It is made up of barris-ally brilliant. But their brilliance a canter. ters who are also prominent in Was either exaggerated by their politics. Their wishes tend to be admirers or was ephemeral,

The British public has an inher- This performance raised great respected by the judges for fear of the consequences of the contact be ent inclination to take an inter-enthusiasm, but when Ormonde tween the barristers and the Minis-est in, and enthusiastically to ad came out again on the following mire, a good horse. Everyone day for the Hardwicks Stakes. ter of Justice.

knows that St. Simon and Ormonde where he had to meet the famous were great racehorses, though the Minting at even weights excite- date of their unbroken auccesses ment was intense. It was general- was Home 50 years ago. Their ly known thea that Ormonde had. Here is another sign of the apnames are as evergreen se those of become a "roarer:" he had de proach of a General Election. The Gladstone and Disrsell. Subse-veloped the most damning respiras Conservatives are looking for a new quent generations have yearned tory infirmity which can 'hefall a marching song.

BATTLE SONG

Its title is to be "The Conserva-

情

to see another 'horse like them. horse.

That is why we impetuously pro- His trainer, John Porter, says in tive Marching Song," and the words claim as the horse of the cen-his book "Kingsclere": "If the must illustrate the title.

tury" successive favourites fated horse had broken down I should' The tune must be of a popular so soon to let us down.

(not have cared; but a rourer- type, of rhythmic lilt, and suitable That, too, is why I went to Paris Ormonde a roarer! All his prog- for use at mass meetings of the to see the unbeaten French colt pects of a great future at the stud party.

Hrantome.

destroyed. It was too sad for These are the conditions of a In France. they are saying that words." And when Ormonde had competition for which Mrs. Baldwin he is the horse of the century," beaten Minting" by a neck and the offers a prize of £5. The song and the commentator who broad-crowd had cheered him as wildly will be judged by musicians of high east a description of the race, as they have greeted Brown Jack

"Your Daily Smile!

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The China Mail his person in the possibility that standing. They will make a selec-when Brantome won, expressed at recent Ascots, Porter, we

the plane might fall on his head. tion which will be performed at the his natural satisfaction that the told, was proud, but with a feeling The case was dismissed; but Central Hall, Westminster, on May colt is owned by a Frenchman, of unspeakable sadness. regulations were made that pro-18 next year.

trained by a Frenchman, and rid-The great, Fred Archer was Hong Kong, Saturday, Nov. 17, 1934. hibited flying at a dangerously The winner will be chosen by the den by a Frenchman."

often asked to name the greatest low level. The statistics of the audience..

I suppose he could not be exhorse he had ridden. He rode Croydon-Paris service show that It is hoped that something better pected to mention the fact that both St. Simon and Ormonde, and the danger is now less serious than "Stanley Boy" will emerge, Brantome is thoroughly British yet it is recorded that more than', than many others that we incur}

bred. His sire is our own cham-once he mentioned the name of It is satisfactory to learn that from day to day without a second

pion stallion Blandford, Tather the filly Wheel of Fortune; and Hong Kong has not been entirely thought.

also of Windsor Lad, this year's this even after he had won the forgotten by the Defence Com

Clearly an aviator does no mittee in London, even though!

A company promoter was trying to Derby and St. Leger winner, his Derby on Ormonde.

mother amare by the English A the first impression given by damage to anybody unless he raise capital for a new scheme.

"I'm telling you," he said to the horse Clarissimus..

Unbeaten Tetrarch Lord Hailsham's speech was that crashes, and nobody is going to

crash on purpose. What then is later on. Just now, of course, it's only

financier, it will make gigantic strides 9 Wins In Two Seasons

The Tetrarch has been one of the some further development was contemplated over and above the the international law as to a in infancy.

Brantome has been racing for most notable horses of this cen❤ "Perhape," said the Bnaneler, but two seasons, and has won nine tury and the best Donoghue has extension of the Kai Tack faci- plane that comes down in for

bidden territory:? Surely it I'm not in mine." lities with which we were already

times. He did not run in the ever ridden, but he only ran AS A familiar. There is no need to ought to be something like the

French Derby, but won the two-year-old. He was never beaten. law that applies to sailors who The radio cannot replace newspaper classics" which correspond to Mr. Alee Taylor is inclined to envisage any belligerent inten-

If it says something nice about you, tions in so obviously useful are shipwrecked on a foreign you can't clip it and paste it in an our Two Thousand Guineas and think that the best horse he has

a icoast One of the competitors album, provisión of additional landing ground and Hangar accommoda- tion. If the announcement of

in the Melbourne race who landed

in Persia was put into gaol; but

it was immediately felt that this

Fully Qualified

A

the St. Leger. He thoroughly ever trained wae Gay Crusader, trounced the good. English stayer winner of the war-time classic Felicitation who, when winning races of 1917 "Is that your college diploma you the Ascot Gold Cup this year, the provision of fifty thousand was rather an uncivilised pro- have framed, there?”

Bayardo and Gainsborough, who pounds for Kai. Tack falls to be

"Well, it's a sort of diploma. It's easily defeated the French Derby were also with Mr. Taylor at Man- ceeding, and he was soon rea worthless stock certificate showing winner of last season. announced by the Minister for leased. The new possibilities of that I've been through the school of The disappointment occasioned pions of this century, and in that ton,, rank high among the cham-. War instead of the. Postmaster legal claims arising out of flying experience." General the blame must be laid

by the defeat of Felicitation was category, generál - opinion finds a on the statesmen and the journ-international pact which should seem to be a good field, for an

more than compensated, in my place for the mares Sceptre. Pretty Tell Hen to Keep It alists whose comments on what either be signed, voluntarily or abstract and concrete"?"

"What is the meaning of the words case, by this favourable view of Polly, and. possibly, Hurry On and appear to be perfectly friendly enforced by common action. At my wife promises to make

Brantome. He is undoubtedly the French horse Epinard, though negotiations have created a feel-

good horse, but has some way to the latter was not a proved stayer. the very least the principle of cake, that's abstract, and If she makes ing of unrest that is apparently reciprocity should be enforced. it, that's concrete."

go before he consolidates his pre-But of these only Epinard is of thought to require an anodyne in It is not so long ago since the

sent reputation. The intention in the post-war period.. the shape of some indication that

A third of this century is past the Departments, dealing with by the vernacular papers, turned

to run him against the best horses Chinese community, forewarned Personal Pars

England can produce for the An-jand we are stil-locking for a cham- the protection of trade and order out en masse to see

the Can- Mr. Ko Leong Ho, director of the cot Gold Cup next year, and, ac- pion whom we can compare with have not gone to sleep. The tonese planes fly over Hour Concreto pong to, director of the cording to present plans, our own St. Simon and Ormonde without postal requirements alone would Kong. By what right?

champion three-year-old, Windsor bringing on the horne of our choice be enough to justify the new

among the passengers on board the

Lad," is to be prepared for that the ridicule of those who, having work at Kai Tack. "

The financial prospects of an RMS. Empress of Japan which

supreme test.

seen both St. Simon and Ormonde, It is so obvious that the air airline were closely calculated left yesterday,

No Derby winner has won the cannot themselves agree which services of the Far East are some two years ago; and it must Mr. B. D. F. Beith, non-official Ascot Gold Cup since Persimmon, was the better, lagging behind the rapid probe admitted that only a substan

owned by King Edward (then My own favourites have been subvention would have Justice of Feace, left the Colony Prince of Wales), was successful Colorado and Dastur, but they gress of the rest of the work fought any private company to yesterday on board the R.M.E. Ein 1897. To be truly great a horse were not and that Hong Kong is an essen tial link in any future system, the signature of a contract. But press of Japan. that what needs explanation is the engineers are altering the

.

world-beaters, while must possess both speed and stam- Brown Jack was Idolised because

Find one who can excel over short hearted courage, distances as a two-year-old, gain He was a great stayer, but his classic distinction as a three-career did not follow the lines year-old, and the next year win which lead to classic honours. the Ascot Gold Cup over two and

a half miles, and you may be sure that you have a hor of the cen tury.

It is going to be difficult far more difficult than to the old days —for a horse to gain the highest

ROBBER SUSPECTS

ARRESTED

not the vote of a very moderate conditions almost from month to Lord and Lady Douglas Hamil, each to a superlative degree. of his consistent merit and lion- sum of money, but the failure to month. The Melbourne race into ware among the passengers on tackle the problem migre boldly, proving that the journey could board the R.M.S. Empress of Japan We are told that the difficulties be made in three days from Eng- which left yesterday. are the refusal of China to grant land to Australia, incidentally permission to fly over Chinese proved that the thousand mile Mr. E. M. Gran, partner of territory, and the calculation that hop from Singapore to Hong Messrs. Davies Brooke and Gran, the provision of a regular flying Kong was a feat that will very left the Colony by the R.M.S. Em service would not pay. On both soon be taken as quite an press of Japan yesterday. of these points the responsible ordinary performance. And the Mr. J. C. Bollard, of the Imperial authorities might give us some same principles apply to а more information.

branch airline as to a branch Chemical Industries (China) railway The main Limited, returned to the Colony by What is the international law having been established. side the s.s. President McKinley, yester three seasons without blemishing about flying over another coun-lines can be run profitably even day morning. try? Is there any? In the old though their own receipts indi English law the ownership of cate that the revenue, falls short The Hon. Sir Thomas Southon, St. Simon was foaled In 1881, in connection with the attempted land-conferred ownership both of

of the cost. They bring traffic Colonial Secretary, and Lady He was nominated for the classic armed robbery on Mr. Ma Tau- all minerals below the surface to the main line which can be Southorn, returned to the Colony races, but before his racing carcer nam, manager of the Empress and of the air above it. Roman handled very cheaply with pracyesterday by the ss. Chitral from had begun his owner, Prince Bat- Hotel, early yesterday morning, on Law only allowed a man to own tically no increase of the "over their brief holiday to north China, thyany, who had made those on the staircase leading to his-apart- the surface; minerals belonged heads.

Sir Thomas resumed his duties tries, died. The rule. festerday, afternoon."

to the State. The question of the

the air does not seem to have If it be preparation for war arisen. In England it appears

that is in mind, there is great have been more a ques

advantage in having pilots who are not only skilled in a genera! way, who know the

and local cond

"Ancient Lights" than

else and to claim that a pas aeroplane Interfered

man's Hight does not appe a very serious art any rate was rarac owner in the

are

honours and to race for two

his

reputation.

St. Simon's Record

and un

or:

Sequel To Attack On Hotel Manager

Three men have been arrested

ment at No. 40 High Street, West til recently was that the death of Point.

an owner rendered vold all the The story related by Mr. entries made in his ne so that states that an attempt was made St. Simon was unable run for to reach for a sum of $120

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