OUTSIDER WINS DERBY

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24895, 7 June 1946, Page 5

OUTSIDER WINS DERBY

RACING

JUDGE’S MISTAKE IN PLACINGS

Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 5. An incident almost unprecedented in the history Of the Derby took place at Epsom •Xterdav. when an official correction was Jjade to the judge's placing of the third tC The race resulted in Airborne winning hv a length from Gulf Stream, with Radiotiterapy two lengths back. The broadcaster placed Radiotherapy third but when the numbers were hoisted Tact and Fair was given third place. After a lapse of three minutes an official correction was made. Radiotherapy being gven the placing. the wrong result had been «ached out to all parts of the world. Until the last 100 yards it seemed that Lord Derby was going to wdn his fourth Derby with Gulf Stream, but the grey outsider, Airborne, came with an irresistible run to beat the second favourite.

Little Form as Guide Airborne had won only once previously a small maiden race at Newmarket last month. It was a first Derby success for his owner, the plastics manufacturer, Mr j. E. Ferguson, also for the trainer. R. Perryman, and the jockey, Lowery.Seventeen horses faced the starter and the mile and a half was run in the slow time of 2min 44 3-ssec. The record to r the race tfas Mahmoud's 2min 33 4-ssec put up in 1936. Mahmoud was also a airborne is by Precipitation (son of Hurry On) from Bouquet. Hurry On sired three Derby winners—Captain Cuttie (1922), Coronach (1926), and Call Boy (1927). while Precipitation was himself a ftaver in the first flight, the Jockev Club Stakes at Newmarket as a three-year-bld in 1936 and the Ascot Gold Cup a year later being among his successes.