THE ENGLISH DERBY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 85, 27 April 1937, Page 14

THE ENGLISH DERBY

Two Early Fancies A cablegram from London statcs that at the call of the card a week or so back on the Derby, to be run at Epsom on June 2, the most faucied candidates were The Hour and Perifox. "Watchman," the turf expert of the London Morning Post, has recently been visiting some of the leading training establishments, and The Hour (trained by Jack Jarvis) and Perifox (trained by Cecil Boyd-Rochfort) and two three-year-olds who won his approbation. Of the former he wrote: " Jarvis 's main hope in the Derby is The Hour, who watched our arrival in his box with perfect manners and composure. He compels admiration. In colour a hard cheslnut, with no while except on his face, he is a colt of unusual character. Standing over a great deal of ground, he is fmely balanced, with the cleanest of lirnbs, his power behind the saddle being exceptional. " In four starts last season, The Hour won three races, and was so badly drawn in tho other that Jarvis gavo hirn tio hopo. lio is by HoritR from Drusilla. " Watchman," concenihig Ferii'u.v, said that even if Forav, one of tlie best Iwo-year-oJds last season, lacked the necessary stamina for tho Derbv, Boyd-Rochfort 's stable might still win the Derby with Perifox. Tho wriler added: "This colt was obviously unlucky not to have done better last year. Of fine range and power, he has become a most attractive tliree-year-old. In the Free Handicap he was 81b. behind Foray (who was weighted as the top of his age), but after observing the pronounced progress he has made, I am more than ever convinced that it would bo imprudent to leave this son of Gallant Fox out of Derbv ealculatioris." Perifox, who was bred in the United States, is out of Periwinkle TT. He is owned bv Mr. Williem WoMwnrd chairman of the New York Jocke.v Club, whose venture is sending Omaha to contest the Ascot Gold Oup last year was warmlv applatidcd in Enelnnd. and only failed by Ihe "short head" of Quashcd.