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SUPERIOR ENGLISH THREEYEAROLDS Competent Authority Holds Them to Be Above the Average of Recent Years Unless I am much mistaken this is destined to rank as a vintage year of threeyearolds and the Derby winner with tho best of which have won that race lie runs for the Cup at tlie next meet ¬ ing and thus like Cay Crusader lie will burn his boats early in his career and crowd all possibilities into one glorious season so that even if he should never run as a fouryearold at all he may close this year wUh a reputation that cannot be bettered That he will win the Newmarket Cold Cup seems as nearly a certainty as we ever can find in the future Blink and Trcclare are entered but they have no earthly chance against him over two miles and fortyfour yards and all the rest except Xinovia which is not likely to run are of a lower class In fact we seem to have reverted to the days when it was no unusual thing for the best threeyear olds to go for the Aseot Cup and win it Bine down and Brigantine may be mentioned in this connection connectionGAINSBOROUGHS GAINSBOROUGHS DERBY DERBYOainsborouch Oainsborouch is better appreciated now that people have had time to think about the way in which he won the Derby There were not a few who found fault with his performance at first much as used to be done in the ease of Isinglass which always wanted rousing before In would set about winning a race Childs never had any ilontit about having the race won on Gainsborough a half mile from home lint the wilt is not one which likes to leave his companions until he is obliged to do so Had tiiere been a pacemaker to jump in for tho last half mile Gainsborough would have strung out all tlie others readily enough As it was he left them almost with regret but their pursuit of him was more and more hopeless throughout tlie last eighth Over a longer distance they would have altogetherI been strung out altogether I have never wavered in my support of Cains borough since his yearling days except on the score of condition in the spring of this year neither did I ever fail to recognize the commanding merit of Cay Crusader nor of Bayardo the brilliant sire of these two great Derby winners Such a post ¬ humous triumph for Bayardo is a splendid one in ¬ deed and it is good to know that there are still three seasons of young Bayardos to come on one of the youngest band being the coltfoal brother to Gainsborough GainsboroughA A CURIOUS INCIDENT INCIDENTI I might as well here record the somewhat curious fact that there is a portrait or picture hung in the Hall or Common Room I forget which of All Souls College Oxford and the subject of it is Rosedrop winner of the Oaks and dam of Gains ¬ borough I question whether any other college can boast a trophy of the kind certainly not one with such credentials for Rosodrop was bred bv the late J A Doyle one of the Fellows of All Souls If I may suggest to Lady James Douglas a method for doing honor to the niemorr of Mr Doyle and celebrating the victory of Gainsborough it would be to present a portrait of her Derbv win ¬ ner tii All Souls College so that ho might b placed alongside his dam and continue what will surely develop into an illustrious series for Gains ¬ borough will sire classic winners and in the times to come All Souls College will have its own in ¬ valuable set of great winners of fo to speak its own Rosedrop family This idea is surely worth following up and I may mention that Mr Roucli photographed Gainsborough with Lady James Dung las Chillis and I think Alee Taylor on Thursday morning The colt should come out beautifully for he is in such perfect condition There is a fouryearold sister to Gainsborough named La Tosca and she will help to carry on the female line of the family Rosedrop herself however is only eleven years old so she may provide several more subjects worthy to have portraits hung at All Souls SoulsOTHER OTHER GOOD ONES ONESApart Apart from Gainsborough which is a real smasher I believe liliuk to be a thoroughly good colt and Treclare is another of great merit King John ran a thoroughly honest race and I fancy he will do still better on softer ground for he cer ¬ tainly went down short and he is a colt of great bulk Somme Kiss I suppose we must admit is a milcr though he can win across the flat but at a mile nothing but Gainslioroiigh will beat him The threeyearold fillies are also good at least I am sure Stony Ford and My Dear are as also in all probability Ferry and Silver Bullet Zinovia we must leave in suspense for the present for all was not well with her this week despite her splendid appearance in the iiaddock on Derby day For Benevente there can only be regrets that like many another good filly before her she should have disappointed One might recall such as Omladina or Baroness La Fleche Still it may not be outside the realms of hope that Benevente will touch form again in the early autumn if kept in training It may be however that she resembles AVilon and does not stay Be that as it may she has certainly done enough in the past to add lustre to tlie records of her year Besides yearBesides the Derby and Oaks runners there arc many excellent threeyearolds this year such as Pandion and AVilton for example both of which seem to be champion sprinters AVhat has become of Scatwell I do not know but his Two Thousand Guineas display certainly did not show him at his best It seems that Bapajime and Deep Sea are not so good as was at ona time thought and Parsifal too has so far disappointed In tlie long distance AVelter Handicap on Tuesday threeyearolds finished first second ana third in a field of eighteen of all ages This Is a pretty good indication that threeyear olds are good this year Something similar occurred in the Ilarston Plate on AVednesday when three yearolds were first and second Such as River shore and Tlicrmogene are sure winners in the near future if they can bo properly placed but therein lies a great difficulty in these days of mammoth fields for almost every race It is hard to say how the troubles can be remedied for the expense of bringing horses to Newmarket is great and in some eases it has been found impossible to bring them no matter what the expense would be Thus we know that By Jingo was under orders to run at Newmarket but the railway could not manage it itTHE THE JUVENILES JUVENILESTlie Tlie twoyearold fields have been so large as to be almost bewildering and yet it was thought good enough to lay slight odds on The Panther to beat a band of thirty which lie did with consummate ease by eight lengths J have seen this son of Tracery described as a big colt but that is not altogether correct He is not by any means con ¬ spicuous for size but he is a rare made one at all points showing something like Ladas quality though there is no Ladas blood in his composition lie had nothing much to beat in las race but he could not have done his work in more stylish fash ¬ ion and I expect he will hold his own with the best when he meets them He was bred at the National Stud and so was Black Chick which also won his race on the first day of the meeting This is a somewhat spiry son of Royal Realm Illack Cherry and there is a rumor that he is toiuhed in his wind but he is a good deal mire than useful at present His running and that of Dominion which won on Thursday indicate tiiat Ponrboire may after all be the best colt we have seen hitherto this season for ha beat Black Chick and Dominion pointless when he encountered them in April and in his only other ran lie got off so bidly that the running need not be considered The Intrusive colt and Monte Faro deserve mention as having maintained their reputations this week though neither won The Intrusive colt was conceding ten pounds to Blark Chick and Monte Faro twenty pounds to Lady Ju ¬ liet and in both cases tho finish was a close one oneABOUT ABOUT PHALARIS PHALARISTho Tho most interesting race of the week over and alxjve the Derby and Oaks was that for the June Stakes when Phalaris just lasted home over the Btinbury Mile from Planet Many people thought that Phalaris won easily but he most certainly did not At seveneighths he had n stone or mure in hand but half way tin the hill lie was reaching the end of his tether and bad he not boon beautifully handled and nursed home by Carslako he would have been beaten It was a rerfectly ridden race full use having been made of Phalaris speed down the hill so that lie should have enough advantage there to just carry him on to the winning post It was exactly what I hoped to see in last Cam ¬ bridgeshire but tho pace made by Grand Fleet in that race in all the early stages kent even Pha ¬ laris too much on the stretch to have tlie necessary run left in him when they reached the Bushes It ean never be said however that he dues not get a mile for he does but it must be in his own way and it is obviously not his best course lie will make a grand stallion and Lord Derby is no doubt right in thinking that such a horse is most suitable for imparting speed in a stud where there is so huieh staying blood Daughters of Swynford Chau ¬ cer and Steilfast will be well suited by Phalaris AV Allison in London Sportsmau
