OUTSIDER’S DERBY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 374, 7 June 1928, Page 9

OUTSIDER’S DERBY

FELSTEAD WINS FAVOURITE UNPLACED GREAT CLASSIC RACE (United P.A. — By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian Press Association) LONDON, Wednesday. At Epsom to-day, the great classic ! race, run in the presence of a huge crowd, resulted in a win fo r an out- ; sider, Felstead. who was quoted at i long odds the day before the event. The result was as follows: DERBY STAKES Of £IOO each, with £SO forfeit if declared the day before the race, £25 if declared by the last Tuesday in March last, or £5 only if declared by first Tuesday in July last; with £3,000 added; for entire colts and fillies foaled in 1925; colts, 9.0; fillies. 8.9; the breeder of winner £SOO, owner of second £4OO, owner of third £2OO. About la miles. (Closed with 346 entries.) FELSTEAD (Sir H. Cunliffe-Owen). b c, by Spion Kop—Felkington. 9.0 j FLAMINGO (Sir L. Phillips), b c, by Flamboyant—Crusade, 9.0 2 BLACK WATCH (L. Neumann), b c, by Black Gauntlet—Punka 111.. 9.0 3 Nineteen started, and Felstead won by a length and a-half from Flamingo, with Black Watch six lengths away third. The time was 2.34 2-5, equal to Call Boy’s record. After three false starts Flamingo was best away. Felstead took the lead at Tattenham Corner and was never afterwards challenged. The favourite, Fairway, was never prominent. Sunny Trace was well placed at Tattenham Corner, but failed to stay. Last season Felstead started four times, running into a place once only, when he finished second to Benedicta in a small two-year-old race at Chepstow, run over five furlongs. His ovJner, Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, is one of England’s best known racing men, and the sportsman for whom Hector Gray did most of his riding when he was riding in the Old Country a few seasons back. Probably Gray would have had the mount on Felstead had he remained in England. It certainly would have been a rare opportunity. Flamingo won the Two Thousand Guineas, but apparently he found Felstead too good. Black Watch was bred by the New Zealand sportsman, Mr. J. B. Reid, and was leased by him to Mr. L. Neumann. Black Watch is out of Punka, the winner of the C.J.C. Great Autumn Handicap, at Riccarton a few season back, and now she is known at Home as Punka 111. The colt had not been doing too well three weeks before th race, so that with ordinary luck he might have got. on the waning list. If he develops into a genuine stayer he will have a chance to itrove himself in the last of the great classics, the St. Leger, to be run at Doncaster in September. It is interesting to note that the sire of the winner was Spion Kop, who, like his sire, Spearmint, also won the Derby. When the last mail left England a month ago Fairway and Flamingo were equal favourites, with Black Watch at a price approaching that of Corinax yesterday. Felstead was not even quoted The value of last year’s Derby to the winner was £11,615.