BOSWORTH’S WIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1003, 20 June 1930, Page 15

BOSWORTH’S WIN

ASCOT GOLD CUP HOTWEED, FRENCH HORSE,, SECOND United P.A.—By Telegraph —Copyright Reed. 9.37 a.m. LONDON, Thursday. . The Royal Ascot meeting was continued today (not having been abandoned, as previously cabled). The

big race, the Ascot Gold Cup, was a triumph for English horses. Following is the result: ASCOT GOLD CUP A cup value £SOO, added to a sweepstake of £2O each for starters, with £4,500 added (£3,500 for the winner, £7OO for the second, and £3OO for the third); for entire colts and fillies. Three-year-olds, 7.7, four-year-olds 9.0; older horses, 9.4, mares allowed 31b. To start at the Cup post, and go once round, 2J miles. Closed with 44 entries. BOSWORTH (Lord Derby), b or hr c, by Son-in-Law—Serenissima. 4yrs, 9.0 1 HOTWEED (Edward Esmond), b c, by Bruleur—Seaweed, 4yrs, 9.0 . . 2 TI-IE BASTARD (Lord Rosebery), b c, by Spion Kop—Valescure, 4yrs, 9.0 3 Seven started. Bosworth won by a length, with the third horse three lengths farther back. The French invasion received a check when its representative in yesterday’s race, Hotweed, was beaten by Bosworth (which was probably started by Lord Derby in preference to Fairway on account of the climatic conditions following on the storm of the preceding day). Bosworth was little short of the best form of the crack three-year-olds of last season. Perhaps his best effort was in the St. Leger last September. In that classic, run over a distance of one mile, 6 furlongs, and 132 yards, he was in front a sh.ort distance from tho post, but the Derby winner, Trigo, then made his run, and beat him by a short head. Homs was third, less than a length away. It was one of the best finishes ever seen on the famous Doncaster course. Hotweed was in the race, but he finished down th© course. * Last season Lord Derby’s fine colt won tw’o races, was second three times and third once, being unplaced twice only. The races lie won were the Liverpool St. George Stakes (£2.612), one mile five furlongs, and the Windsor Rothschild Plate (£177), a mile and a-half. Bosworth apparently did not come to hand until late in the season, which probably accounts for the owner relying on Hunter's Moon in th© Derby. The latter finished fourth. Hotweed was a notable performer in France before being sent to England, the Grand Prix de Paris being his most important success. The third horse yesterday won three races last season. His first succes then was in the Newmarket Stetch worth Stakes, £370, a mile and a-half. For this race there were only five runners, and two of them -were at a three-figure price. On© of these, The Bastard won. On this occasion the totalisator return was less than twenty to one, so the books’ price was more than five times as long. What did backers of the favourite say when he finished second? The Bastard’s next success was in the Sandown Park Warren Handicap, £359, 11£ furlongs, and his next in tho Newmarket Smithfield Stakes, £350, a mile and a-half. These results, even allowing for the weak company, indicated that Lord Rosebery’s colt had staying blood in him. GRAND NATIONAL ENTRIES Entries wil close for the following events at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Grand National meeting on Friday next, June 27, at S p.m.—First Day: Grand National Steeplechase, Winter Cup. Second Day; Beaufort Steeplechase, Grand National Hurdles. Third Day: Sydenham Hurdles, Lincoln Steeplechase. The meeting is set down for August 12, 14, and 16.