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GAINSBOROUGHS SEPTEMBER STAKES How the Champion ThreeYearOld Made Himself a Triple Crown Winner Gainsborough is a wonderful colt and at New ¬ market September 11 he put his name on the roll of Triple Crown winners without the semblance of a struggle In public opinion he so far outclassed his opponents that he went to the post at 11 to 4 on and won in a way that suggested even such a scanty price was giving money away to his sup ¬ porters The race was the wartime substitute for the Doncaster St Lcgtr called the September Stakes at a mile and threequarters threequartersIn In winning the race Gainsborough gave his dead sire Bayanlo an honor never before credited to a stallion The year before Gay Crusader by Bay ardo Laura won the Two Thousand Guineas New Derby and September Stakes Thus when this year Gainsborough repeated this infrequent exploit it came about that he gave his sire the iwst humous glory of lKing the only progenitor of Triple Crown winners in two successive years Surely the early death of Bayardo was a great loss to English breeding and racing Several of his twoyearold sous are in this country and nerchauce may shine in our racing next year yearIn In describing Gainsboroughs triumph London Sportsman of the next day said Lightning thunder and a deluge of rain were in evidence at this particular moment and the five horses that were to take part in the September Stakes were kept in their boxes till it was time to leave the paddock Three of the four Gainsborough My Dear and Prince Chimay are stable companions trained at Mantou but belong to different owners Gainsborough to Lady James Douglas My Dear to A W Cox and Prince Chimay to W M Cazelet These left the mddock first in the order their names are written then there went out Ferry with Zinovia leaving a little later There was no delay at the starting post and the description of the race can be given in a few words A mile from home Gainsborough was in front and galloping along unchallenged and unchallengeable won in a canter bv three lengths from My Dear with Prince Chi ¬ may four lengths away third It was a case not onlv of Gainsborough first and the rest nowhere but of Manton first and the rest nowhere nowhereGainsborough Gainsborough pulled up as fresh as when he started and would not have blown the proverbial candle out when he came back to the unsaddling en ¬ closure for his jockey to weigh in Lady James Douglas did not lead him in as is usual in the case of a classic winner but shortly followed him anl received congratulations galore It may be added in view of the many reports which continue to be published from time to time as to the imagi ¬ nary unsotindnpss of the colt that he ran without hoots bandages or a rag of any description on his legs which arc and always have been as clean as on the diy lie Avas foaled
