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GAINSBOROUGHS EASY TWO THOUSAND How a Great Colt Won ■ Great Eacc for a Feminine Owner and Breeder. Gainsborough was only third choice in the betting over the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket May 1. He was at 1 to 1. while Polyscope was the favorite at 7 to 4 and Scatwell second choice at 3 to 1. But Gainslcirough won like the champion he probably is. the two first choices being unplaced. The race was run over a heavy track and its mile was covered in 1:44%. the value to the winner being 5. 500. In its description of the race on the following day. London Sportsman said: "The field of thirteen for the Guineas was made up of four from Minton— Blink, Tliermo-gene, Bapauni-.- and Gainsborough, each belonging to a different owner: two of Sir William Tatems Scatwell and Skyrocket no di duration lioing made, though it was Skyrocket who carried the distin guished yellow cap, while the other seven were individual representatives of other stables. It cannot by any reasonable stretch of imagination be said they were up to the ordinary standard of classic candidates in point of looks. Gainsborough, as he did as a two year-old and as lie does as a three-year-old. stood out in this respect like a Triton among minnows — this not applying to -his height, for he does not stand, in the opinion of his trainer though he has never been measured, more than 15 hands 3 inches. He has obviously done well since his race here in a five-eighths scramble at the last meeting, •md he made friends galore, or, rather, it would be truer to say, he attracted his old friends of last year, who for some reason, not easy to understand. had tcin|»orarily deserted him this spring. Sommo Kiss was oil his toes and well, while all that eaa ha said of Polyscope is that he looked ls-tter out of his clothes than in them, but no two horses ever went to a starting post fitter than these two. SCATWELL NOT LIKED. "Scatwell was not liked, and of the others it may be said that Itocksavage of which, by the way. it may Ik? interpolated that the rumor that he has been sold to go abroad is contradicted was the smallest horse in tin- field, and that the gray. Shenley Boy. and Arwin were in blinkers. Both I the two last-named got badly away, and Somme ] Kiss on settling down was the que to lead the field. Scatwell on the extreme right hand side of the course and Polyscope on almost the extreme j left hand, those being the two Tavoiites, had nothing to complain about at the start, but Scat-well was soon iu trouble, and so was Polyscoiie. and it was obvious that as the latter dropjied further • and further back something must have happened, but t it was not till returning to the paddock that the ■ discovery was made he had broken a small blood I vessel. In the meantime Gainsborough, requiring : a lot of holding together, but running on staunchly, was gradually wearing Somme Kiss down, and. taking the measure of Mr. Garlands horse rising I ; out of the Abingdon Mile Bottom, and increasing his advantage at every yard, won in irreproachable style by a length and a half, a margin which j would have been increased with every additional furlong they had had to travel. Gainsborough was bred by, and carried the colors of. Lady James I Douglas, and if it is true that this was the first time any classic race has ever been won by a lady-it I is no" wonder that her ladyship was overwhelmed 1 on all hands with congratulations.
