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ENGLISH THREEYEAR STARS BEATEN BEATENlie lie English flat racing season is so young that iii great imiKirtanee is to be attached to the running of horses that are probably backward in condition but enough has already occurred to suggest the pos ¬ sibility of history repeating itself so far as the threeyearolds nru concerned Last year before racing opened it was hejrt by the scribes and prophets that only White Star and Ixnnoiid were to be consid ¬ ered iu connection with the Two Thousand Guineas Derby and St Leger but before the first of these classics came up for decision lioth colts had becn beaten so badly as to make their cases hopeless Similarly this year Craganour has been the public choice for all these great events with Shogun Itoek Flint Saniiuhar and Koseworthy next in order of estimation Yet Iu the Faster Stakes at Kemptoii Park on the first day of the seawm Kock Flint and Samiuhar were not only beaten but finished unplaced to Hiprieastrnm Koseworthy and Foxglove III only Koseworlliy maintaining his reputation by carrying bis 133 pounds into second place Samiuhar with Danny Maher up was a 7 to 4 favorite and Kock Flint was second choice at 5 to 1 The winner be ¬ longs to Leopold de Kothschild and having never started before had allowances that made his weight puly 112 iMiiuids to 133 on each of the cracks named Ilippeastruni Is a chestnut colt by Martagou Venus is himself a Derby candidate and as be won witii great ease Is to be reckoned with as one having a genuine chance To make matters more confusing the supposed invincible Craganour went down to de ¬ feat in his tirst race of tlie year This was in tin Union Jack Stakes of 5000 for threeyearoldsv at LlveijKiol last Thursday In which he was unex ¬ pectedly lieaten by K Huttous Flippant winner of the Gimcrack Stakes at York last year yearIt It is satisfactory to note that Americanbred horses liegan to make their presence felt right at the beginning of the years racing At Kemptort Park March 24 Oneida ran a dead heat with the four yearold Le Solell for the Ashford Plate and was lientcu in the run off C Bruce Ismays twoyear old chestnut colt Ballyoukan by Watercress Janice won the Kcmllcsham TwoYearOId Stakes worth 1105 and Stung Again a Whitney castoff ran a close second to Scots Saint iu the Kothschild Welter Plate As Scots Saint won the Liverpool Spring Cup afterwards Stuns Agains race suggests good form On the same day Oscar Maddens Kaiser bv Dentschland Gold Lace won the Tyne Three Year Old Handicap at Newcastle and altogether it wns quite a prosperous day for the American horses
