TWO THOUSAND WINNER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 156, 1 June 1940, Page 10

TWO THOUSAND WINNER.

INELIGIBLE FOR STUD BOOK. BLOOD. LINES OF COLT DJEBF.L, Djebel, -..champion two-year-old in France last season, and conqueror of the best English colts at- Newmarket in No vein her, won tho New Two Thousand Guineas in a 'field of 21: from end to end (wrote a London correspondent on May 3). It was a popular victory, for the colt was always first choice in tile market, and his success could be forecast a quarter of ■ a mile from home. Djebel has not grown much since his two-year-old days. Ho has the proper even temperament for racing. lie will in all probability bo favourito for the New Derby, to be run at Newbury, where tho second favourite is likely to be the Aga Khan’s Stardust, who followed Djebel home, two lengths behind. In winning the Two Thousand with tho son of TourbiJlon and Loika, M. Marcel Boussac, who was present, was gaining his first classic success in England, hut lie hat. provided winners of nearly all the importand races in his native country. Although not so cleanly bred as the General Stud Book demands. Djebel is of interesting extraction, says Sporting Life. Ilis dam, I.oika, is by Gay Crusader out of Couer-a-Couer, by Teddy out of BallanIrae, winner of the Cambridgeshire. Sea Biscuit, the world’s record stake-winner, also descends from Ballantrac.' A. Swann, who trains M. Boussac’s horses in France, is an Englishman. S. Donoghue, who trains M. Boussac’s horses in England, said Djebel was running on liko a true stayer, so there should not bo much doubt about him getting the Derby distance. Tho Times racing correspondent:, says : “Djebel is yet another winner of a good race in this country' who is not in our Stud Book, for he. comes from a mare by Durbar 11., wito won the Derby before the Four Years’ War.”