Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Saturday 27 September 1919, page 4


I THE TURF IN ENGLAND.

ECLIPSE AND BREEDERS' PRO

. - IWCE STAKES.

GREAT TETRARCH COLT.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

LONDON. July 21.

Two of the chief races of the year have been decided during the week under review - the Eclipse Stakes and the national Breeders Produce Stakes, at Sandown park Major Astor's Buchan won the one, and the other was taken by Major Dermot McCalmont s Leura teams Both were won eas, ly especially that for the -two year olds Buchan is out of the best known of the three year olds for he is hue horse that was beaten a neck by The Panther for the Two Thousand Guineas and then was considered unlucky to be beaten by Grand Parade for the Derby He was next seen out for the Princess of Wales a Stakes at New market early this month and he made his second victory as a the year old he first having been in respect of the COL en Stakes early in the year We saw the out for the fifth time this year on the occasion of his Eclipse Stakes win Incidentally, one may mention that the race was worth Xo OOO compared with £10,000 in pre-war times It will soon be back to that splendid * allie

Buchan's task proved ample for the other three year olds opposed to him were not distinguished for their best performances Just for a moment bir Mee Blacks Cygnus looked like troubling him a furlong from home but the challenge was fleeting in the extreme and the favourite went on well within himself a win by a length and a half All the same Cygnus must not be despised for he St Leger He can be made fitter than he is not and after all this was only his second appearance in a race-course The first was when he won the Colman Produce Stakes at Newmarket early in the spring The first two to the Eclipse are by the 1911 Derby i in her Sunstar and I should say there are more possibilities in ( venus for the reason

that he is still backward Buchan on the other hand In limited in size and delightfully shaped horse that he is he may never be better than Alec Taylor had him to wan this substantial

prize

Lord Stanely might have started Do minion against Buchan and the race was deprived of much interest through his absence Dominion now ever is in re serve for the St. Leger for which his stable companion Grand Parade is not entered his horse by the way, got a severe shaking up at Ascot when plan very nearly beat him and the Derby win her is only just no i in good work again Buchan is also in reserve now for the St lege and he will no doubt be a good fall of rite but it may be worth I putting on record that I have an excellent

account for the last of the classic races of Sir William Neon s Tangles who finished fairly clo a up for the D rb-\ Die course and distance will suit him better it Doncaster if he St Leger was i on by Key one Dominion was second and Buchan third 1

And no wife v words about an impos-ing new two year old and his sparkling performance I refer to Tetratemi who came to Sandown park on Monday and pulverized a pretty smart field which included the very speedy Lady Phcel e The latter was ruined by Donoghue and with Tetratcma out of the way she would

have i on right enough but the debutant grey had all her speed and more than I er stamina so that he was able to go past her and win easily by four long has This new bidder for champs kinship now ours, among two year-olds i as his name indicate a sort. of The Tetrarch from a mare named Scotch Gift He was br d by Major McCalmont i he is fortunate enough to own both sire and dom Like his sire the youngsters ve A well grown and he has. great length and 1 bert and ion. especially note the fact when he is mount Good judges favoured him directly they saw him in the paddock for in that critical inspection he stood out just as prominently as he did after wards in the race There is no doubt he really is a high class one and that Mr Persse s stable were not entertaining an angel unawares was shown by the stir the colt 6 name made in the market resulting in his star ing price be og 9 to 1 It will be more interesting to watch his

future

There is another i el known grey two year old by The To reach named Sarchedon but he came by a great fall in prestige at Newmarket last week when a competitor for the Ches erfield Stakes His trouble has been although undefeated that he could not be kept straight in his races and so the expediency of put ting on blinkers was tried for the first time last week That did it He went mad and worked himself into such a state that he was in no condition to race when sent to the post' He should in deed have been withdrawn from the

race in which case a tragedy would have been averted As it was he was severely trounced by He Goes the smart Prince Palatine colt, who must be high class judging by the stylish way he won But until we know more about Tetratcma (who is of a more sober disposition than Sarchedon) I would unhesitatingly give two year-old championship honours to Sir YA llham Nelson s filly Lampetia She may be another Pretty Polly

FINE PERFORMANCE OF IRISH

ELEGANCE

LONDON July 31

I 'live stock seen a wonderful per-formance on the part of a racehorse Ifwas not an absolute triumph for lush D'" race under his great credit on 10 2 did not -actually was the Steward

s Cup at Goodwood but he beat

all but one horse, and that sorts only I

beat him by three-parts of a length. To his conqueror he was trying to con-cede no less than 44lb., and, as I have written, this wonderful horse came within a length of accounting for the five-year-old. King Sol. Had, Irish Ele-gance got off as well as the winner, I think he would have won. As it WJS. King Sol Got a -two-length start is everything in the race, and he just as?tained it to the end. Third was Lord Glenley's Scat well, who was receiving 3lb. from Irish Elegance, and fourth was Golly Eyes. In spite of the great task set him, Irish Elegance was a firm favourite at 100 to 30, and then beatwell and Best Both were equal favourites at 5 to 1. Scatwell, as stated, ran into third place, but Best Born proved once again that he cannot get a yard more than five furlongs. At that distance he might have won, but from that point has just faded out of the picture. He is an extraordinarily big horse. I think he must stand over 17 hands, and certainly there is no bigger horse in training.

I may add in reference to Irish Ele-gance that the chestnut son of Sir Archibald looked in great shape, It is quite true to say that we may never see a finer handicap performance than this, and we may never hope to see a more beautiful horse. He is indeed a picture of strength and elegance, and his speed is wonderful. King Sol carried out, and every credit is due to him, but the honours most, certainly belong to the one he beat. He is owned by Mr. Cunliffe-Owen, the head in this country of the British-American Tobacco Trust. He has recently come into prominence as the buyer of some very high-priced yearlings". Evidently, therefore, it is his intention to take he deepest possible interest in racing. About a month ago he spent close '-a £20,000 on yearlings at auction, and there were not many of them, as the individual prices were so high. For a son of Prince Palatine, he gave 6,500 gns. They are all with Felix Leach at Newmarket., King So!, however, is trained for him by Harry Batho, in

Sussex.

This reunion meeting at Goodwood was very largely attended, and the Duke of Richmond had a large house party, though the King could not 'be present. The traffic arrangements were not good. They had been handed over to the Royal Automobile Club, and their arrangements were far from being satisfactory, while there were some outrageous instances of overcharging and rapacity on the part of those with

vehicles for hire. ?

As regards other details of the rac-ing on the opening day, I may perhaps mention that Captain Giles- Loder's Golden Guinea won the Richmond Stakes, but this extremely handsome two-year-old had the greatest difficulty in winning by a short head from Mr. S. B. Joel Soranus. The two came together three furlongs from home, and from that point they indulged in a tremendous battle, first one and then the other seeming to have the advantage. Golden Guinea did not run his races out like a good horse, and I feel quite sure he is not a high-class colt, though he certainly looks like one.

Another two-year-old was Sir Edward Hutton's Silvers, an own brother of Fifmellla, who won both the new Derby and New Oaks in 1910. This youngster will never be as good as, his distinguished sister. He ran gamely, but it was only by a head that he won, helped greatly by the jockeyship of Donoghue, from His Majesty's filly. Sunny Princess, who only lost in the last stride Other winners on the opening day were Lord Derby's Keystone, who at last qualified to enter the winner's enclo-sure by winning the Gratwick Stakes from Major Leonard Brassey's Britannia, and air. A. P. Cunliffe Misty Morning, who took the Charlton Welter Handicap, Keysoe's victory was a re-versal of the One Thousand Guineas' form with Britannia. She is a great 17 hand mars by Swynford from Keystone II. (an Oaks winner), and her trainer, the Hon. George Lambton, has never ceased to believe in her. At last therefore, he has been vindicated.

Before concluding these notes, I may, perhaps, be permitted to refer to the race last Friday for the Liverpool Cup. It was won in extraordinarily easy fashion by Lord Jersey's Arion, under, the top weight, of 9.0. This is the horse that could not get a place for the Lincolnshire Handicap, under 6.9, clearly because no light-weight can handle him. Yet in the interval of four months he has shown himself capable of winning the Newmarket Handicap, the Jubilee Handicap, the Newbury Cup, and now the Liverpool Summer Cup. He is an astonishingly improved horse, and quite one of the equine - celebrities of the

year.

Second to him at Liverpool was the three-year-old filly Chtiette, who won in receipt of 10lb., and may be the best of her sex, and not improbably the best both of her sex and year. Third was King John, the winner last year of the Irish Derby, and the great failure of the race, Dionysos, was beaten out of a place. That horse, who is an own brother to Diadem, who the previous day had won the Molyneux Stakes untie; 9.7, would not struggle a yard, and so was ignominiously beaten off. Diadem showed herself one of the greatest racehorses over five furlongs of modern times. Yet both are out of the same mare, but whereas Diadem is by the 1907 Derby winner, Orby, Dionysos is by Llangibby. Hence, probably, the reason for the vast difference in their racing temperament and merit.