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GAY CRUSADER AND GAINSBOROUGH Gainsborough has done enough to prove himself a long way the best threeyearold of the season anil comparisons similar to those drawn between Bayardo sire and Gay Crusader when the lattor was carrying all before him last year are now being made of the fouryearold and Gainsborough It is not a little curious to note how closely their careers on the turf resemble one another as each commenced with a failure and afterward won the Two Thousand Derby September Stakes and Gold Cup and I am pretty confident that like his senior Gainsborough will continue unbeaten to the end of the season Then again each colt won once only as u twoyearold Just as Bayardo made Bay Ronald famous as a sire so Gay Crusader and Gainsborough have been mainly instrumental in establishing that of his far more famous son whose premature death was a great loss to the turf and British bloodstock but the void should IHJ handsomely filled by Bayar dos two sons and already I hear that Gay Crusader has a full subscription list for his first season It is A remarkable record that Manton should have sheltered four such colts in ten years as Bayardo Lemberg Gay Crusader and Gainsborough and in the same brief period the stable took the Oaks with Rosedrop Sunny Jane and My Dear Vigilant in London Sportsman
