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IN DEFENCE OF CONSCRIPTION

The vexed question of con scription has once again come before the House of Commons.

It's Derby Day To-day

STORIES OF FAMOUS

RACE

Origin And History

Of The Turf's

Blue Riband Retold

•

THIS article is written for the Leger are open to both colts and the One Thousand reader who knows little or fillies;

nothing about the Derby, be- Guineas and Oaks are confined

to fillics alone. The distances

yond the fact that it is the best are: for the Two Thousand known Euglish race. Most peo- Guineas and the One Thousand ple's information would not go Guineas, one mile; for the Derby much beyond this except that and Oaka, a mile and a half; and a little over they might be able to tell you for the St. Leger, that it is run at Epsom, in Sur- 14 miles. rey, that the event generally happens about the end of May for the beginning of June, that the horses have to be entered for it before they are born, and that the favourite wins, well, races

rather seldom!

No gelding may run in the classics.

The important point about the the same weight, except in those classics is that they all carry

Mr, H. E. Morriss' Pasch, Arm favourite for to-day's Derby

interest for classic, the resuit of which has an

almost every

open to both fillies and cells, in which the former re- ceive a sex allowance. In the

to Derby this amounts five pounds. There are a number of other races for three-year-olds where they all start level in the matter of weights, but

The unique character of the 1. Another previous winner, five races are the leading ones in classics will now be understood. April the Fifth, has an interest-

each year.

these

in

are

N DAN PUT A TRE, AN

country in the world,

Out of the millions of sub- scribers to the Derby Sweep. stake, there must be quite a high proportion to whom this race is little more than a name and it is for them that this article is written.

They are, as already has been ing story attached to him. All The greater majority of all said, races for championship in his connections were confident What then exactly is the

other races in England are run the truest sense of the word. No of victory, but their consterna- Derby? To put it concisely, it either on the weight-for-age horse has ever yet won all five, tion can be imagined when with is the mile and a half champion- system or on the handicap plan. but only thirty-one years ago a only three minutes to go there ship

the com- filly called Sceptre won all except was no sign of the horse! His race for three-year-olds. We need not go into

trainer and part-owner, Mr. Tom There are every year five such plicated details of the weight, the Derby.

Probably

Walls (who is also a well-known

(the word will serve better than race run on it is the Ascot Gold and most popular of three-year-old "championships" for-age system here.

History and tradition has actor), sent him by horse-box the best known example of a made the Darby the greatest from his quarters, about a mile any other as an indication of the Cup.

the five away from the racecourse. The classics. How did it originate? traffic was, however, so dense exact nature of these races);

that he had to be walked for It is revealed that the Couscrip- they are generally called the As for the handicaps, the

"A roystering party at a

the last half-mile through tion Law is still in existence in "classics." The five classic races athletics that we need not ex-

principle is so well known

country house founded two races and named them grace-

streams of noisy motor-cars. When he reached the course, he Britain and merely awaits im-are the Two Thousand Guineas plain any further. The weights

fully after their host and his and the One Thousand Guineas, the horses have to carry

had just half a minute to spare. house." The host was the plementation in any emergency run at Newmarket in the Spring; graded on their past perform-

Quite unshaken by the excite-. Earl of Derby and the name which makes it necessary to the Derby and the Oaks, run at ances. This "equalisation"

ment of the morning, he went of his house was The Oaks.

on to win the race at 100 to 6. muster the nation's fuil man- Epsom in the Summer; and the means that a horse who has n

or who is Romantic Glamour reserve of stamina There are power.

some who St. Leger, run at Doncaster in bred

The very fact of winning the well generally shines in

Countless stories are told in Derby is nowadays sufficient to favour an automatic adoption of | September.

these races. The success often connection with the Derby and make the horse's fortune, conscription with any emergency

in the better-known the romantic glamour which rather that of his owner. Of these, the Two Thousand handicaps by horses who have time has associated with such as surprise invasion or aGuineas, the Derby and the St. done well in the classics [eg, race.

the has been estimated that a Derby Elsewhere in this issue winner's value is something in declaration of a major war.

La Fleche, who won the Oaks, an interesting account will be the neighbourhood of £50,000. Two Thousand Guineas, St. found of some of Ireland's for- favour of such a course. But lem of conscription of capital. Leger and Cambridgeshire] is a tunes in the "blue riband of the

There, is a record of £100,000 having been offered-and refused conseription, to be really effec- Opinions differ very widely in proof both of this fact and the Turf,"

-for Felstead, the Derby win- tive, ought to be more complete frequently argues that any at their

this regard. Private enterprise other, that the classics as a rule

are won by the best horses of Perhaps the most surprising ner of 1928.

year. The Cambridge- winner of recent times was Sig- than it has been in the past. It

Horsea bred from Derby- tempt to nationalise it in shire, run at Newmarket in norinotta, the filly that won in winning sires command high is argued that it is unfair to emergency would be bound to October, is one of the most 1908. She was a great cause prices as yearlings and always conscript men for service in the end in chaos and possibly famous handicaps of each year. of rejoicing to the bookmakers, have the reputation of coming army while those workers whose paralysis of industry; and that Other outstanding handicaps are for no one fancied her and she of good stock. This reputation, specialised labours make them is probably so. But experience the Cecarowitch,

the Lincoln- started at 100 to 1. An Italian it may be mentioned, is deserved. indispensable to war-time indus. has shown that there are always lshire, with which the flat-racing racing enthusiast, the Chevalier The result is that high stud feca season opens each year; the Ginistrelli, was her owner. Two are charged and hence the value City and Suburban, the Ste- days later she won

the

Oaks of the horse rises. one wards' Cup, etc.

also, this time starting at a to

And there is much to be said in

at

and

attained

SALES BATET

unscrupulous industrialists who try are allowed to remain

will profiteer in war-time, their lathes and benches draw way or another; and invariably ing big wages. It is true that munitions manufacturers make the services of experts are prob huge profits when the nation GRIN AND BEAR IT ably more valuable than those fights. When a government is of the non-specialised man who becoming impoverished

that means a whole people—it goes with the colours. even

seems an injustice that any though the latter serves with į manufacturer should be lining courage and distinction and is his own pockets. It is therefore ready to give his life if neces-a tusk for the experts in the De- sary. For it is not the giving partment of the Chancellor of of life which counts so much in the Exchequer to devise ways and means of diverting these war as the taking of it. Con-big profits into the public purse sequently, the man who can rather than make any attempt make fine weapons is more use-at seizing control of industry, ful than the soldier who uses for there are grave risks en- them or so it might be con- tailed in such a course which to the man- tended. But, on the other hand, are obvious even

in-the-street. A fair and com- a time of crisis it is un-mon sense arrangement in the disputable that the fighting man emergency of war would seem to carries the chief responsibility boll down to this: Conscription: for victory or defeat. However for army and industry, with a good his weapons, if the fighter common "war wage" for all; and lacks the ability to use them, the diversion or control of pro- flta out of industries which; defence brenka down. And so

benefit in any way from hostili. Under such a system

in

it would seem that to he entire tics.

ly fair, conscription should in- there would be little room for clude all labourers, specialised complaint, oxcept in individual and otherwise, as well as men cases; and they would not mat- for the army.

ter when it is a question of the There is still the more in- welfare of the nation that con- tricate, and more difficult prob- cerns the legislators.

By Lichty

"Well, I hope he don't go back to ten cent cigars-my husband will be furious!".

or

It

This applies to a lesser degree to all classic winners.

The result is that owners are now very reluctant to let their horses run again after their classic career is over.

Formerly it was the under- stood thing for a classic winner to try his luck in the Ascot Gold Cup, or the Coronation Cup the following year, but nowadays it is unheard of. The exception: to this rule is Solario, who, after winning the St. Leger in 1925 went on to win the Ascot Gold Cup the year after. Solario as ja result commanded the highest- known fee in England at the stud. The Aga Khan vainly offered £100,000 for him after his victory at Ascot.

5,000 Horses

There are more and

.moro racehorses in training, as time goca on: more people are inter- ested and prices have risen 19.8 result. One hundred years ago there were 1,166 thoroughbreds in training. The number must now be near 5,000. The rise of Interest means that more horses are entered for the classics, and that, therefore, these races are: worth more to the winner. This year's Derby was worth £9,836 to the winner.