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THE WHITE KNIGHTS GOLD CUP London Juno 19 The race for the Gold Cup was run at Ascot yesterday W R Wyndhams The White Knight was first L de Rothschilds Radium got second place and W M G Singers Torpoint was third Six horses started Richard Croker de ¬ cided not to run his filly Rhodora because of her defeat Wednesday in the Biennial Stakes StakesThe The White Knight is a remarkable race horse and a great stayer His success in the Ascot Gold Cup was a repetition he having carried it off in 1907 alsdvHeis a Jiveyearold son of the Irish sire Des ¬ mond Pella Last year The White Knight won the March Stakes at Newmarket i 14 miles Coronation Cnp at Epsom 1 12 miles Gold Cup at Ascot 2 12 niiles and Goodwood Cup at 2 12 mllep At the Newmarket Houghton meeting Radium defeated him forXthe vTockey Club Cnp at 2 14 miles Ju the Doncaster Cup tie was third to Velocity and Bridge bt Canny His only other race of the year and In some respects his greatest was when with the crush Ing impost of 138 pounds he ran second to Demure In the Cesarewltch Handicap Demure bavins up but 93 pounds and defeating him by only three quarters quartersl l a length at the end of a trying two and a quar ferriilles i Mr Bdtbschilds Radium if also a noted stayer CP i I but not the equal of The White Knight although he did manage to defeat him In the Jockey Club Cup He is a fiveyearold son of Bend Or Taia and as the sons of Bend Or have generally proved successful in the stud probably has a career of use ¬ fulness before him as a sire sireTorpoint Torpoint Is a veteran of the turf being eight years old He is by the great Australian race horse Trenton Doncaster Beauty Ascot Is his favorite track There last year IIP won the Ascot Stakes at two miles It is a handicap and he carried 110 pounds He also won there the Alexandra Plate nt two miles and threequarters and S5 yards with 131 pounds up and is altogether an admirable type of the stayerThe wellpreserved stayer The Ascot meeting lasts but four days yet the daily distribution of money In stakes and purses runs close to 35000 It having no equal In the racing world in that respect The winners of the Gold Cup since 1S90 are Year Horse Horse1S90 Wt Starts 1S90 Gold 120 5 512G 1891 Morion 12G r 1892 Buccaneer 120 r 1893 Marcion ion i 1894 La Fleche lS9r Isinglass 1S9 Love Wisely 1S97 Persimmon 1S9S Elf II ISO Cyllene 1900 Mermrif 1901 Santoi 1902 William tho Thin 190 Maximum II 1901 Throwaway 190r Klnfandcl 1900 Bachelors Button 1907 The White Knight 190S The White Knight
