RACING IN ENGLAND

Evening Star, Issue 22440, 10 September 1936, Page 9

RACING IN ENGLAND

THE ST. LEGER STAKES WON BY BOSWELL Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September 9. (.Received September 10, at?‘lo.4o a.m.) The principal race on the second day of the Doncaster September Meeting was .the St. Leger Stakes, run on the Town Moor course to-day, and resulted as follows: ST. LEGER STAKES, of £IOO subscription for starters, and £4,000 added. Colts 9.0, fillies 8.11. About 1m bf and 132yds. Mr W. Woodward’s b c BOSWELL, by Bosworth Flying Gal 11., 9.0 1 Mr A Gordon Smith’s br o Fearless Fox, by Foxlaw—Molly Adare, 9.0 ... 2 H.H. Aga Khan’s gr c Mahmoud, by Blenheim—Mah Mahal, 9.0 3

Won by three-quarters of a length, with three lengths between second and third. Plaster Cast was scratched, leaving a field of 13 to contest the race.

The St. Leger Stakes is the fipal of the big three-year-old classic races run in England each season, and yesterday’s race was the 159th contest for the “ Red Ribbon of the Turf.” The course it is run on is the famous Town Moor at Doncaster.

The St. Leger had its origin in the establishment of a sweepstake of 25gs for starters, the distance being two miles. That was in 1776, and two years later the race received the title of the St. Leger Stakes. Few r,aces have been productive of greater sensations. The wager of a thousand guineas to a walking stick against Theadora, who won in 1822, and another of an even thousand guineas that Faugh-a-Ballagh, the winner in 1844, would not be a starter, are some of the sensational incidents recorded in the early history of the race.

Many hot favourites have been defeated, and quite a number of pronounced outsiders have prevailed. Two upsets in the last 15 years have been those of Lord Londonderry’s i’aleinarc.h iiv.1921, who started at 50 to 1 against, and of H.H. the Aga Khan’s Firdaussi in 1932, who started at 20 to 1. In the latter race the Aga Khan also started Dastur, who finished second, and Udaipur, and the stable preferred both of these horses to the winner.

JDunng the last three years the winners, Hyperion (1933), Windsor Lad (1934), and Bahrain (1935) have also won the Derby, the latter also winning the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes. This treble has also been won by West Australian (1853), Glaaiateur (1865), Lord Lyon (1866), Ormonde (1886), Isingiass (1893), Galtee More (189 V), Fiying Fox (1899), Diamond Jubilee (1900), Rock Sand (1903), Pommern (1915), Gay Crusader (1917), and Gainsborough (1918). The winners during the past 10 years have been: —

1926 Lord Woolavingtou’s Coronach. 1927 Lord Astor’s Book Law. 1928 Lord Derby’s Fairway. 1929 Mr W. Barnett’s Trigo. 1930 Lord Glanely’s Singapore. 1931 Lord Rosebery’s Sandwich. 1932 Ii.JEL. Aga Khan’s Firdaussi. 1933 Lord Derby’s Hyperion. 1934 — Mr M. H. Benson’s Windsor Lad. 1935 H.H. Aga Khan’s Bahrain.

Mr W. Woodward, the owner of this year’s winner,, is a well-known American. who made an invasion on England this season with Omaha, the admitted champion four-year-old in the States. The success of Boswell in yesterday’s race will compensate him for the unlucky defeat of Omaha in the Princess of Wales Stakes last July.