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, I i • I i • i ! I , i I 1 t " - ", 1 ,. 1 - 1 . I ,, " e a " s a „ II , ■ I- I e ,. «■ GIVES BUT LITTLE LINE ON DERBY. Few Winners of the Two Thousand Guineas Have 1 Repeated in the Blue Ribbon Fixture at Epsom. ■ a The English racing public is a trifle puzzled just now as to whether Minoru. King Edwards colt, is an out and out smasher and whether the result of the Two Thousand iuineas provided a real line on the Derby. Minoru won rather easily, and there I was an air of genuineness to the victory in the fact that beniml the royal candidate was Bayardo. the champion two-year-old and winter favorite for the Epsom event: but though Minor.i is now prime choice ] over Bayardo and a short figure In the betting, the j hard-headed critics pay no great attention to the | seeming reversal of form, for they point to a long ,. list of real good ones which, on former occasions. , won the Guineas and made a very i oor showing in the Derby. As recently as last year was this theory demon- « strated in August Belmonts colt. Norman III., which , won the Guineas in faultless style and only made a poor fifth at Kpsom. A mile from home the I American bone was showing the way. and even when J they swung around Tattenham Corner he was in the , van, but hi- gradually fell to the rear in the gallop A home. The Two Thousand Guineas was instituted 101 j years ago. and then, as today, it was run over the 1 course at Newmarket — the Bowley Mile. This How- , ley Mile is the first mile of what is known as I ••across the flat." a straightaway of a mile and a J quarter in length and one of the graudest pieces of . laeaac turf in the world. Were it necessary a hun- dred horses could be started abreast and with room J to spare. Of course, the race has always more or j less of a bearing on the Derby, for it yearly affords a chance to see the first airing of the classic colts. , Yet it is remarkable in this long span of years that , onlv twenty winners of the Guineas took the Derby. Five colts and three fillies started in the iuitial j fixture. This was in UN, and in 1M4 the One Thousand was inaugurated. The first winner was Wizard, by Black Sorcerer, and when it came to the i running of the Derby. The Tope beat the Guineas winner by a neck. First to win the two big events was Sir Charles Bunburys Smolensko in ISIS, and in the first fifty years of tie- Guineas but four other horses duplicated the feat of Smolensko. These were the Duke of Rutlands Cadland in 1S2S. Lord Jerseys Bay Mid-dleton in is:ii. Cotlierstonc in 1S4:: and West Australia in 1S55. the last mentioned being the lirst of the triple crown winners. During the last fifty years there have been fifteen winners, notably Isinglass. MM; I.adas. 1S94: Galtee More. 1897; Flying Fox. tam: Diamond Jubilee. 1900; Rock Sand. 190:.. and St. Ainant. 1904. The most hollow victories recorded for the Two Thousand were Macgregor in 1S70 and Snrefoot. just twenty years later, and neither finished in the first three at Kpsom. Scot Frees Guineas in 1SS4 was won in a runaway fashion, but he was not nominated for the big event. Of those animals whicli won at Newmarket in clean style and which afterward realized expectations, a few stand out. such as Isinglass. Galtee Vine, Common and Ormonde. A summary of th.- two races for the last fifty years shows that fifteen have won the Derby, six have lHen second, a similar number third and five fourth. All the others were unplaced. The following table shows how the Guineas winner fared at Kpsom for the last fifty years: Fate. Year. Guineas Winr. at Kpsom. Derby Winner. 1858 Promised Land. ..Sixth Musjid. I860 The Wizard Secmd riiormanby. 1881 Diophautus Third Kettledrum. 1S02 The Marvvuis Second Caiact aeils. 1863 Macaroni Won Macaroni. 1N04 General Peel Second lilair Athol. ]SCi."i Glnliateir Won Gladiateur. 186G Lord I. von Won Lord Lyon. 1M 7 Vauban Third Hermit. 1888 Moslem Noe starter. .Blue Gown. 1MI9 Pretender Won Pretender. 1S70 Macgregor Fourth Kingcraft. 1S71 Bothwell Sixth Favoulus. is~2 Prince Charlie. .. Seventh Creniorne. 1878 Gang Forward. .. Second Doneaster. 1S74 Atlantic Third George Fred lck. 1873 taiuballo Unplaced Gatoptn, 1878 Petrarch Fourth Kisber. 1S77 Chamant Inplaoed Silvio. 1S7S Pilgrimage Non-starter. .Sefton. 1X79 I haribort Klevcnth Sir Bevys. 1880 lvtroiio! Noa starter. .Bend Or. lsl Peregrine .Second Iroquois. 1882 Sholover Won Shotover. 1883 Galliard Third St. Blaise. 1NN4 Scot Free Non-starter. ~St. Gatlen. •Harvester. 1885 Paradox Second Melton. 1886 Ormonde Won Ormonde. 1887 Enterprise Non-starter. .Merry Hampton. 1888 Ayrshire Won Vvrshire. 188B Enthusiast Non-starter. .Donovan. I MM Snrefoot Fourth Sainfoin. 1.X91 Common Won Common. 1S92 P.onavista Unplaced. ...Air Hugo. 1893 Isinglass Won Isinglass. 1894 I adas Won I.adas. 1895 Klrkconnel Third Sir Visto. 1806 St. Irusquin ....Won Persimmon. 1807 Galtee More Won Galtee More. 1898 Disraeli Unplaced .Teddali. 1800 Filing Fox Wo.i Flying Fox. HUM Diamond Jubilee. Won Diamond Jubilee. Hint Ilandicapper Tenth Volodvovski. Hr3 Sceptre Fourth Ard Patrick. 1903 Ho.-k Sand Won Hoik Sand. 1904 St. Am.-uit- Won St. Auiant. 1995 Tedaa Noa starter. .Cicero. 1006 Gorgas Seventh Siwarmint. 1997 Slieve Gallion. .. Third Orby. 1008 Norman III Fifth Signorinetta. Dead heat.
