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scription has once again come before the House of Commons. It is revealed that the Conscrip- tion Law is still in existence in

Britain and merely awaits im- plementation in any emergency which makes it necessary to muster the nation's full man- There are some who power. favour an automatic adoption of conscription with any emergency such as surprise invasion or a declaration of a major war. And there is much to be said in favour of such a course.

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 Gillies; nothing about the Derby, be- Guineas and Oaks are confined to Allies alone. The distances yond the fact that it is the best are: for the Two Thousand known English 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 Oaks, a mile and a half; and they might be able to tell you for the St. Leger, a little over that it is run at Epsom, in Sur- 1% miles.

that the event generally happens about the end of May or the beginning of June, that the horses have to be entered for it before they are born, and wins, well, that the favourite rather seldomi

rey,

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

race for

No gelding may run in the classics.

The important point about the classica is that they all carry the same weight, except in those races open to both fillies and colts, in which the former re- the ceive a sex allowance. In

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

оп

are

Mr. II. E. Morrise' Peach, firm favourite for to-day's Derby almost every clasate, the result of which has an interest for

country in the world,

The unique character of the 1. Another previous winner, classics will now be understood. April the Fifth, has an intérest- 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 tho

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 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 trainer and part-owner, Mr. Tom ship

three-year-olds. We need not go into the com- Aily called Sceptre won all except was no sign of the horse! Ilis Walls (who is also a well-known There are every year five such plicated details of the weight- the Derby,

History and tradition has actor), sent him by horse-box three-year-old "championships" for-age system here. Probably the best known example of a

The The vexed question of con- the word will serve better than race run on it is the Ascot Gold made the Derby the greatest from his quarters, about a mile

and most popular of the five away from the racecourse. any other us an indication of the Cup.

classics. How did it originate? traffic was, however, so dense of these races);

that he had to be walked for exact nature

As for the bandleaps, the

"A roystering party at a

the last half-mile through are generally called the they

principle is so well known in

country house founded two

streams of noisy motor-cars. "classics," The five classic races athletics that we need not ex- races and named them grace-

When he reached the course, he fully after their host and his

had just half a minute to spare. are the Two Thousand Guineas plain any further. The weights and the One Thousand Guineas, the horses have to carry

house." The host was the

Quite unshaken by the excite- Earl of Derby and the name run at Newmarket in the Spring; graded on their past perform-

ment of the morning, he went This "equalisation" of his house was The Oaks. the Derby and the Oaks, run at ances.

on to win the race at 100 to 6. Epsom in the Summer; and the means that a horse who has a

or who is Romantic Glamour

The very fact of winning the reserve of stamina St, Leger, run at Doncaster in bred well generally shines in Countless stories are told in Derby is nowadays sufficient to

these races. September.

The success often connection with the Derby and make the horse's fortune, attained 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 the has been estimated that a Derby Guineas, the Derby and the St. done well in the classics [e.g., race. Elsewhere in this issue winner's value is something in

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-

There is a record of £100,000 But lem of conscription of capital. Leger and Cambridgeshire] is a tunes in the "blue riband of the

having been offered-and refused --for Felstead, the Derby win- other, that the classics as a rule conscription, to be really effec-Opinions differ very widely in proof both of this fact and the Turf."

this regard. Private enterprise

jare won by the beat horses of Perhaps the most surprising ner of 1928. tive, ought to be more complete frequently argues that any at- their

The Cambridge- winner of recent times was Sig- Horses bred from Derby- than it has been in the past. It tempt to nationalise it in shire, run at Newmarket in norinetta, the filly that won in winning sires command high is argued that it is unfair to emergency would be bound to October, is

most 1908. She was a great cause prices as yearlings and always in chaos and possibly famous handicaps of each year. of rejoicing to the bookmakers, have the reputation of coming conscript men for service in the end 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, the Lincoln- started at 100 to 1. An Italian it may be mentioned, is deserved. But experience the Cecarewitch, specialised labours make them is probably so.

season opens each year; the Ginistrelli, was her owner. Two are charged and hence the value indispensable to war-time indua has shown that there are always shire, with which the flat-racing racing enthusiast, the Chevalier The result is that high stud less

the Oaks of the horse rises. try are allowed to remain at unscrupulous industrialists who City and Suburban, the Ste- days later she won

will profiteer in war-time, one wards' Cup, etc.

also, this time starting at 8 to 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 becoming impoverished - and of the non-specialised man who

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

scems an injustice that any though the latter serves with manufacturer should be lining courage and distinction and is his own pockets. It is therefore ready to give his life if neces-a task for the experts in the De- sary. For it is not the giving partment of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to devise ways of life which counts so much in

and means of diverting these Con- war as the taking of it.

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, are grave risks en- ful than the soldier, who uses for thero

a course which them or so it might be con- tailed in such

are obylous even to the man- tended. But, on the other hand,

in-the-street. A fair and com-i in 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 chlof 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 wago" for all; and lacks the ability to use them, the diversion or control of pro- fits out of industries which defence breaks down. And so benefit in any way from hostili- it would seem that to be entiro-ties. Under such a.system ly fair, conscription should in- there would be little room for clude all labourers, specialised complaint, except 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 wolfare of the nation that con- cerns the legislators..

There is still the moro in- tricate and more difficult prob-

your.

one of the

SALES BRATT

By Lichty

"Well, I hope he don't go back to ten cant cigars-my husband will bo 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 Solarlo, who, after winning the St, Leger in 1925 went on to win the Ascot Gold Cup the year after. Solario s a 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 more racehorses in training as time goes on: more people are inter- ested and prices have risen as a result. One hundred years ago there were 1,166 thoroughbreds in training. The number must now be near 6,000. The rise of interest means that more horses are entered for the classics, and that, therefore, these races aro worth more to the winner. This year's Dorby was worth £9,880 to the winner,

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