1958-08-09 — Page 17

Rae Recalls Some Of His Big Highlights SOON after riding in

the 1955 Oaks, having changed, I was talking to the Queen's racing manager, Cap- tain Charles Moore. "Will you be over here on Monday?" he asked.

"No, sir," I replied, "I shall bo riding in Paris." For 1 had rides booked at St Cloud for that day...

We talked on for o while before I went back into weighing-rodin, where it sud- denly occurred to me-Muybr Cap.ain Moore had been going to ask me to ride for the Queen,

I doubt whether 1 hve LYCT

moved so quickly without

ald or a home.

the

מו

I dashed out, nearly down

the Queen's racing manager, and told him; "I can easily be here on Monday, alr," Bo he bent down frem a long way and said: "Good, then will

YOU

ride Tenerefts for the Queen at Hurst Park?" What a

querfor

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1958.'

First Photo-Finish Derby! ROUND

3. HINSVE 1. WAE JOHNSTONE (AMOUR DRAKE), Doug SMITH (RWALLOW TAIL), AND CHARLIE ELLIOTT (NIMBUS) STARTING TO MOYE AWAY FROM THE KAILE.

4. SWALLOW TAIL Moves out INTO AMOUR DRAKE'S LINE, 1. AMOUR DRAKE (9 3. NIMBUS COLLIDES WITH SWALLOW YAIL. MOYES OVER TO SWALLOW TAIL

BETWEEN THE TWO. # AMOUR DRAKE. STILL THE SAME DISTANCE FROM THE RAILS AE WHEN STARTING HIS LONG RUN. IN DIRECTLY BEHIND SANDWICHED NIMBUS 7. AMOUR DRAKE RENEWE CHALLENGE.-PICTURES FROM BRITISH MOVIETONE NEWVG.

Rae Johnstone

THIS is the sixth part of the Rae Johnstone Story, certainly the most in- triguing personal report to come from the world of racing. Now, for the first

I spent Saturday at St Cloud time, the facts about the

ord Sunday. IL expressing my regres at being 1949 are told by a unable to attend St Cloud on

Longchamp sensational Derby finish of

returned for

man

who was at the centre of

the Monday, mud my first and only ride, in the the drama:-

royal coloura

The Queen was not racing

Que the

but

that day, Mohor WILS. I

THE year 1949 was the was 1s year in which M.

apprehensive as an apprentic Leon going out for his first ride as I walked to the paddock-pausing for a photographer who recorded Rae Johnatone looking all of 90 yeary olt-to be presented by Captain Moore,

Teneretta was having her first run. She was a little backward

Volterra should

have lived to hear that his white and cerise silks had been carried by an Epsom Derby winner.

telling.

THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT THE SO-CALLED

'SWITCH' IN TACTICS

was

19

camera confined every move in the race-evidence which available to the stewards America as soon as the race has been ru

rupted view of the events, fol- "fatal change of plan" that "cost stages, and the evidence of the lowing direelly behind the, trio. him the Derby?? The result had been announced.. "First, No. 13" (Nimbus by a head from Amour Drake, with Swallow Tall another head away third) when he came up to me In the dressing-room and said: "You did the right thing not to object, Roe."

A ROASTING

I felt like packing up there and then, And it was only the friendly persunaton of my wife Mary and others that stopped me, once I got back to Faris on Saturday evening, ringing up the various trainers who had booked me for Hurst Park on the Monday and calling off my rides.

THE LOSER

the

That Sunday evening M. Volterm, the former programme I rang up Mme. Volterra soon seller who rose to become A after landing to tell her about leading impresario and to own It was Gordon being his very all. M. Volterra had listened one of the mest powerful nice self. Aber all he must to the race on the radio, though stabies in Europe, died, Later, have been feeling disappointed the doctor would have preferred at his funeral, I draped too. But, though I didn't com- Elm to avakl the strain, and had silks carried by Amour. Drake ment, 1 still felt very sore, and taken it well. But it was feared over his coin. I just thought sourly-I bet there was little hope for him, you'd have

For And objected.

when the doctor sald without interference, Amour "better luck next time" as the Drake would have won by 1

WAS photo-verdict announced, minimum of one length.

both he and his patient know there would be go next time.

on

Watching the events broadside suppose it was Impossible to get a true picture of what had happened. Otherwise how

Meanwhile, on Monday I did return to England for Hurst Park. At least one of the daily paper writers, Clive Graham, had studied a Deiby dim and conse- quently written an article in my defence, Bul. I still felt preity On Sunday arrangements had sore with everybody and in a the mood to turn it all up for

a tuppence-or less.

been made for me to see

critical

WHICH WAS SO FATAL reached the Savoy

of Derby alms run through at than lie the other two, but in a straight to necount for the roasting received an urgent message absolutely straight line. Johnstone in the English Sunday studlo just outside Paris. They

the or were stopped at from Dr Maurice Racine who, Steadily,

were Press for a "fatal switch" steadily attending her husband, picking up ground. Doug had recalling her to Paris, M. hin whip in his left hand. Charlic had eased off the fence and Swallow Tail Was Jonging, alightly to his right, away from the whip, when Nimbus came and caught him a clout that would have rock. cd Marciano Into a deep slumber.

On May Bat Longchamp, Volterra had suffered a severe bul ran I Face with me, Vit Drake set 18 wondering relapac. finishing fourt

whether Anour Drake WIS

4

Apparently the Queen Mothercoing to be the stable's best Light rain had given way to and I had talked for quite

after all. For on this day it sunshine as 33 Derby Jockeys while. For when I returned to the Prix Hocquart he met packed into the relay of ancient the weighing-room, the Jocks Ambiorix, the top colt of the taxis that drove us down to the all wames to know what we had

1948 generation and winner this paddock, been, speaking about.

year of the Prix Grettulle, and bent him length

and a half. Nor was there any fluke about' it.

I wish I could have told them; wish I could remember now. The truth

Is Waf the Queen Mo.her put me at case 20 inunodiately that I found myself taking quite naturally, effor lessly, about · J. Just don't know what

THE CHOICE

Ten days inler, as if to lad But } wish Tenereita had ¦ ente that he was not going to be won, D that the conversation ouldine by this stable compan

slaged his could have been renewed in the lon, Amour Drake usading enclosure!

best performance yet with a pulverising rur, in the French

2.000" which be lengths Arbare.

• I attained Bas uitinute

in the passport to popularity jockeys room by achieving personal record when riding 47 consecutive losers. It's a lot easier to sympathise with failure thun to tolerate success,

have yet to meet a whole bunch of race followers whose atten- dance is accounted for by

There was an enormous crowd

Checked in a rhythinle run, which had begun just after the

.BY. THE WAY

น

by Beachcomber

CURED

Sir Alfred Butt, who I Arst mei at Deauville after the war and who became a wise counsel- lor to me, asked me during Epsom to ride, a colt belonging to his son, Kenneth, at Hurat.

I felt allille better

after

on

MR JUSTICE COCKLE- who altempled to Fraungle Perslan Glory, a 100-7 chance, Clouled off balance, Swallow] 1 CARROT ruled yesterday snow in usually found that, by had got up in the last few and the first to get upset was Tail moved further right, that a taxidermist who took the time they "reached Dover, atrides to beat Bill Cook Gordon Richards's mount Royal straight into my line.

Įsiufted cel in an

The China Verdict and win the race unlicenced it had melted to water. Forest, who sweated up and

veblele a friend as a presen: question then arose whether the by a neck. Better still, after my Jashed out in the paddock, "I

could be ined for next ride, Fidonia, had won the hope neither of you are drawn

was not using the eel for profit culprits

smuggling water. Thost who Whitehall Handicap. And by the to that one," said Dick and was now at the peak but was carrying goods, i next

had stuffed their clothing with time Vulgan won the Valiant Carver. We weren't. Charles of its momentum, I had to The taxidermist claimed, that foreign lee usually gave them Stakes, to complete a hat-trick, Bouillon and Val Drake had a switch Amour Drake right, to be held the oct out of the selves away by shivering and I had taken the eure. low number (3), Amour Drake the outside of Swallow Tall, window at arm's logih, and looking miserably cold, and I were 22, with Royal For-

In due that it was at no ilma, actually.

course this same There wasn't exnetiv est on the extreme outside.

in the vehicle. of time to think judge, however, said that since

The learned Mme. Zaphroma

Vulgan was to provide me with whole heap about It and even had there

the cel 13

The Rae Jaharions Story been, I reflected afterwards, the taxidermist held

the his hand, the eet was being MME. ZAPHROMA forecasts should have done

follows for August: will be published later this year carried by, It not ia. thing-and I dived left.

the Clouds, bright speile, showers, by Stanley Paul and Co. vehicle. The taxidermist then sunny periods, rain, thunder- asked: Suppose I had lied storms, visibility and variable string to the cel and trailed it winds on high and low ground,

vehicle?" "You

High Uides "at Worthing and lighting-up times at

Nuneaton will be

won by five THE RUNNING

M. from

Bousane's

had virtually no blots on

Charlie

Elliott

chatting

OBJECTIONS

w

samc

behind

the

would have been trailing goods behind, if not in, an unlicenced vehicle," replied Cocklecarrot.

ils

a most unexpected headsche.

NEXT WEEK

when How they plant'

jumped Soon would have to pick... Nimbus off quickly and hustled lead from which to ride at Epsom, Most him up into the

be Highlander and Val writers suggested it would

Drake Val Drake of the two, since he with Marvel Lollierou on High-

The Arsl photo-finish in his under and Bouillon copybook; he had beaten a top to each other on the way. Val Derby history was culled for a

had Drake began to weaken starting a sped over the line. But I

the left swing, where Nimbus knew, without any shadow of Without comment was hanging away from

Nimbus had won, the doubi, that Charles Boullion rode Amour fence a bit, and Charile, look and the first words I spoke as Drake in a pre-Derby galloping over hls right shoulder, we pulled up were Derby week before the big race, and I called to Doug Smith on Swal across to his rider, "I ought to miles with his nose if Alaska into the axis of the earth's orbit.

rode Val, Amour Drake won it, low Tall: "Doug come up object, Charlie"

a desire to assist in im.

proving the breed.

No horse can win a

through sheer hok.

★ If you take note

coll in Ambiorix und be won over the distance,

of

Chat he did.

what you see on the track and less note

to the course. And if reports were cor-

He not only won but left me alongside will you?" And he with the impression would be best suited

of

pay

what you hear, you less often.

• Ante-post betting on flies' elassie is strictly for the birds.

There

學

no activity in

which fancial interest plays a dominant part that is condueiod

integrity

with higher

racing.

than-

before

shouted he

given Joler the moon enters Capricorn, with Betelgeuse in the ascendant, 30 degrees west of Taurus counting from the position of Sagittarius Alaska's attorney-general said during the aestivat equinox, when would push a peanut 100 the 1754 eclipties are wedgca

she

Все

ever got Statehood. Alaska's "Let him who sneezes," Then why didn't

"into a tricorne hat I do so! Statehood is imminent, and, the adds, Well, when I got back into the attorney-general has been chal- that his breeches are chalked

cnclosure unsaddling

for the lenged to make good his words, crosswiso, and a murrain on the.

(News Rom.) been of St Asaph." second, Dick Carver had net yet fourth his way through the

You never know crowd and there was nobody to step forward confer with,

I Agured that

I was sum-

PEOPLE unpopular with the

There was no future in han reet, we had hardly dismounted ing around now, I was already the odds pushing Amour Drake's

and pushing at shrunk in England from 33-1 foot of the hill. All out half- lo 100-3.

way up the straight, we had

who return from He walked through the pulled up to and past Royal

holidays abroid need no French widow into the garden. There was hope of M. Forest into third place. Then ciently

longer declare ice and snow to Volterra being well enough to I could see the front two just English authorities for a com-

From a novel. plaint from me to make the journey. In fact, no beginning to crack.

count for the Customs officials, the duty

on such little.

huxuries having been ITH Gallle logle, she said to had sooner

Mme. Volterra

W herself, "Fichtre! one of us Amour Drakte and I were arrived in London on the boat-

Gordon, who

was fourth on abolished by the Import Duties

Order. Travellers must be a ghost." on uninter-(General) train on Friday evening and running wide, to the right of Royal Forest, had

HEATWAVE

BY

GILES

ww

a winner

UP

Army Cook Champion

DRITISH Army cooking cham-

BR

plan, Sergeant John Roworth, 30, has been making mothers of ́ 00 recruita about their secret recipes. He met them al Queen Elizabeth Barracks, Strensall, Yorkshire, where the mothers had come to watch the passing-out parado at the depot of the Kings Own York- shire Light Infantry. All tho mothers shared the lunch with the recruits-prepared by Cook Sergeant Roworth.

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