ENGLISH LEGER WINNER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 205, 15 September 1937, Page 15

ENGLISH LEGER WINNER

A Classic Pedigree POOR PREVIOUS RECORD The most iuteresting aspoct of Uie result of the St. Leger Stakes — apart from the almost inevitable element of surpnse with which the decisions of English classic races have been invested oi' fate years — is that Singupore, the sire of (Jhuimleigh. won the event for liord Glaneiy -in i93U, and that Rose oi England, the dam of Chuimleigh, won the Oaks for his lordsnxp in tixe same year, Thus, two oiassie wmners of the same age have been mated to produce another. Chulmleigh raced three times as a two-yoar-oid, running a poor third m the Whitsuntide Foal Stakes at Manchester at his first start. Like Singapore, who did not starf in the Deroy, \VTednosday 's winner was not diseussed iu the latest files to hand as a St. r.eger possibility. At iour years, Singupore won tlie Doncaster Cup, 2i mnes, by four lengths, and ne was bealen *n the Ascot Gold Cup by Trimdon, who also wou 'thiit race in the following year. Uhulmloigli is oue of his lirst crop of foals aua his fiist classic winner. Fairway, the sire of Fair Copy. tho runnerup, won tho St. Loger for Lord Derby m 19'28 and Solario, sire of the Derby winner, Mid-day Sun, who rau third in the Leger, scoied in 1925 for the latu Sir John Rutherford. Rose of England, Chulmleigh 's dam, was got by 'i'eddy, a graudson of Flying Fox. His sire, Singapore, was got by Gainsborough — Tctrabbassia, by The Tetrarch— Abbazia, by Isinglass. Singapore won the St. Leger. Doncaster (ioid Cup and was seeond in the Ascot Gold Cup. Gainsborough, the sire of Singapore, and also of'Mr. Harry Hassai's imported horse Gainscourt, won the Twro Thousand Guineas, Derby, St. Leger and Ascot Gold Oup. He got Solario, the side of Midday Sun, the winner of this year's Derby.