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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1938.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1930,

power.

It's Derby Day To-day

STORIES OF

OF FAMOUS RACE

Origin And

History

Of The Turf's

Blue Riband Retold

are for the Two Thousand

THIS article is written for the Legur are open to both colts and the Ono Thousand render who knowa little or fillies; nothing about the Derby, be- Guineas and Oaks are confined yond the fact that it is the best to fillies alone. The distances | known English race, Most peo Guineas and the One Thousand ple's information would not go Guineas, one mile; for the Derby nuch 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

rey,

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 that the favourite rather seldom

miles.

No gelding may run in the classicn

The important point about the classics is that they all carry the same woight, except in those wins, well, races open to both fillies and

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.

colts, in which the former re- In the ceive a sex allowance.

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

Mr. H. E. Morriss' Pesch, irm favourite for to-day's Derby almost every clanste, the result of which has an interest for

country in the world.

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

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 race for three-year-olds. We need not go into the com- Ally called Sceptre won all except was no sign of the horse! His trainer and part-owner, Mr. Tom Walls (who is also a well-known There are every year five such plicated details of the weight, the Derby.

for-age system here. Probably

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

the five away from the racecourse. and most popular of classics. How did it originate? any other as an indication of the Cup.

of these races); exact nature

"A roystering party at a are generally called the

country house founded two races and named them grace- fully after their host and his house." The host was the Earl of Derby and the name of his house was The Onks. Romantic Glamour

they

are

or

It

IN DEFENCE OF CONSCRIPTION

The The vexed question of

traffic was, however, so dense scription has once again come

that he had to be walked for before the House of Commons.

As for the handicaps, the

the last half-mile through It is revealed that the Conscrip-

principle is so well known in

streams of noisy motor-cars. tion Law is still in existence in "classics." The five classic races athletics that we need not ex-

When he renched the course, he are the Two Thousand Cuineas plain any further. The weights

had just half a minute to spare. Britain and merely awaits im- and the One Thousand Guineas, the horses have to carry

Quite unshaken by the excite- plementation in any emergency

run at Newmarket in the Spring; graded on their past perform-

ment of the morning, he went This "equalisation" which makes it necessary to the Derby and the Oaks, run at ances.

on to win the race at 100 to 6.

or who is muster the nation's full man-Epsom in the Summer; and the means that a horse who has a

reserve of stamina

The very fact of winning the There are some who St. Leger, run at Doncaster in

bred well generally shines in Countless stories are told in Derby is nowadays sufficient to these races. The success often connection with the Derby and make the horse's fortune, favour an automatic adoption of September. Chater Road. conscription with any emergency Of these, the Two Thousand attained in the better-known the romantic glamour which rather that of his owner.

handicaps by horses who have time has associated such as surprise invasion or a Guineas, the Derby and the St. done well in the classics [eg 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. declaration of a major war.

Two Thousand Guineas, St. found of some of Ireland's for-

There is a record of £100,000 And there is much to be said in

But lem of conscription of capital. Leger and Cambridgeshire] is a tunes in the "blue riband of the

having been offered-and refused favour of such a course.

-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 Tur

this regard. Private enterprise;

Perhaps the most surprising ner of 1928. tive, ought to be more complete frequently argues that any atare won by the best horses of

their

Cambridge winner of recent times was Sig- year. The

Horses bred from Derby- than it has been in the past. It

nationalise in shire, run at Newmarket in norinetta, the filly that won in winning sires command high most 1908. She was a great cause prices us yearlings and always is argued that

it is unfair to emergency would be bound to October, is

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the services of experts are prob- huge profits when the nation GRIN AND BEAR IT ably more valuable than those lights.

When a government is

of the non-specialised man who becoming impoverished and

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

seunis an injustice that any though the latter serves with manufacturer should be lining courage and distinction and is his own pockets.. It is therefore rendy to give his life if neces- a task for the experts in the Do-

sary.

For it is not the givingpartment of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to devise ways of life which counts so much in

and means of diverting those 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- a course which them or so it might be con- tailed in such tended. But, on the other hand, are obvious even to the man- in-the-street. A fair and com- 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 chief responsibility boil down to this: Conscription for victory or defeat. However for army and industry, with a good hla weapons, if the fighter common "war wage" for all; und the diversion or control of pro-' lacks the ability to use them,

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SALES CHATZT

with the has been estimated that a Derby

By Lichty

"Well, I hope he don't, ga,back to ten cent cigars-my husband will,

be furious!"

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 a result commanded the highest- the known fee in England at stud. The Aga Khan vainly offered £100,000 for him after. his victory at Ascot.

5,000 Horses

more

There are more and 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 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 £0,386 to the winner.