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WHISK BROOMS BAD LUCK AT ASCOT A big field turned out for the Royal Hunt Cup lips increased and multiplied and an undisguised clergyman was seen to take forty halfcrowns to one alwiit My Collar Batho had saved a pony with Joyner as between Whisk Broom and Long Set regarding the topweight as his only danger and this estimate would have proved very nearly correct had Whisk Broom got off well which he did not Bachelors Hope looked splendid and so for that matter did Whisk Broom and Long Set Royal Tender on the other hand had an aldermanic corporation and a tail which touched the ground Of those which looked fittest among the others were Mushroom Dorando and My Collar the lastnamed of which however got badly away as had been generally anticipated and lie could never be driven into the fighting line Eton Boy the winner a bloodlike hardy brown son of Littleton was never seriously challenged though the company was the best that we can produce Mary the Second Is a very line chestnut lilly but erratic at starting and she never was prominent today and it would bo as well to retire her especially as she may prove to be in foal Long Sets performance was certainly a great one but Whisk Broom also would have been right there had they got off on equal terms Outram and Brancepcth ran prominently and Whisk Broom finished about sixth Royal Tender did very much better than might have l cen ex ¬ pected Shanballymoro had many admirers but he rewarded them with no consolation and finished down the course The victory of Eton Boy was well anticipated and probably a good stake has been landed and yet the ring must have done well so many horses were genuinely backed backedConsiderable Considerable delay took place at tho post and it was seventeen minutes after time before Mr Will oughby succeeded in getting the twentyeight run ¬ ners away on their journey the start being a de sidcdly uneven one Dorando was first to show in front slightly clear of Atmah both being on the right then came Ask Papa Eton Boy on the stand side Bachelors Hope Mediator and Prim Simon Closely following these came Long Set and Sunspot with Mushroom next in advance of Bcaurepaire and Ilamerton with Whisk Broom losing fully eight lengths last After going a quarter of a mile Dor ¬ ando dropped away and Mediator took up the run ¬ ning in advance of Eton Boy Beaurepaire and Long Set with Sunspot next clear of Bachelors Hop Prim Simon Mushroom and Matelot with Whisk Broom improving his position A furlong and a half from home Eton Boy took the lead and was soon afterwards stoutly challenged by Long Set who though struggling gamely could never quite draw level and maintaining the advantage Eton 15oy won by three lengths from Long Set who was eased in the last hundred yards a length and a half away Matelot running on through cased horses was third Outram finished fourth Brancepcth fifth Whisk Broom not ridden out sixth Rock land seventh Royal Tender eighth Hamerton ninth Beaurepaire tenth Mushroom eleventh Oliver Goldsmith twelfth Mary the Second thirteenth Dalnacrag fourteenth Atmah fifteenth Bachelors Hope sixteenth and Mediator next with Shanbally more last Time by Bensons chronograph 141 London Sportsam
