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MUMTAZ MAHALS DEFEAT Conditions Were Strongly Against Sensational Filly at Kempton. 1 Arcade TJp to Beat Prince Aga Khans Filly Right at End Winner, Son of Tracery and Doro, Has Strong Blood Lines. BY E. E. COUSSELL. LONDON, Oct. 13. The racing sensation of the season was the defeat of the hitherto unbeaten Mumtaz Mahal in the deep mud at Kempton Park, October 12. This race was the six-furlong Imperial Product Plate, worth about 5,000 and run over a straight course. Long odds of nine to two were laid on the flying two-year-old. She had run on five previous occasions thrice over five furlongs and twice over six furlongs. She had triumphed every time with such ease that she was considered a racing wonder. The ground was almost fetlock deep in mud. It had rained heavily for over twelve licurs, following on several wet days. At the time set for the race there was a veritable deluge. Naturally the ground was all against the fillys style of running and on the whole The Tetrarch tribe loathe the wet. Mumtaz Mahal is rather temperamental. A day or two prior to the race it was rumored that she was not quite at her best. It was also against her that during the previous week her trainer was confined to the house with a chill while Hulme also contracted tonsilitis at Newbury. "Mumtaz" was only his second mount since his return to the saddle. While the grey filly did not strike oft quite so quickly as usual, there was, for five furlongs, little indication she was not going to give her usual spread eagling performance. Half way she ran through a pool which caused her to falter for a few strides. To the consternation of everybody in the last furlong Mumtaz Mahal was seriously challenged by Arcade, ridden by Childs. The filly was game enough and responded to her riders urgent calls. Childs saw his chance. Remorselessly he and Arcade wore down the filly and eventually passed the winning post half a length in front Of course those who thought Mumtaz Mahal had given a slovenly performance at Don-caster were among the prophets. It is conceivable that the fallen idol may have run the race of her career. After all she is not a big, strong filly to put up 129 pounds in such terrible going, and, moreover, she was conceding seven pounds to the colt. The future may reveal it was a tremendous task in the circumstances. Her owner was not present. Had he been at Kempton it is possible "Mumtaz" would not have started. The trainers orders were to run the filly. He obeyed them as it was impossible to communicate with Prince Aga Khan, who last year won the race with Cos. There was general regret that the filly was unable to retain her record untarnished. Arcade, which started at 100 to 8 against, is a good looking bay colt by Tracery from Doro. He is therefore a full brother to Doric, which ran fourth in the Derby. Arcade is lengthier and has more scope than Doric, which -is inclined to be narrow in front. Arcades victory incidentally puts Tracery again at the head of the list of winning stailions. Captain Anthony de Rothschild bred and owns Arcade. He bought Doro for 0,000 at the late Lord Falmouths dispersal sale in December, 1918. At the same time Doros filly foal by St. Amant realized 2,000. Afterward known as Petrea she was beaten a head in the One Thousand Guineas after getting off last. She was a high-class race mare as a three-year-old. Doro, which has also bred Atwell and other winners, herself won over one and one-quarter miles. She is by Cyllene from Scene, by Springfield Helioscene, sister to Bushey Park and to Sundown, which bred Peep oDay and Nightfall, the dam of Campfire. The next dam is the famous Sunshine. One of the best mares of her time she won nine races in ten starts at two years, being beaten a head only in the Middle Park Plate. The next year she ran second in the Oaks. Sunshine is one of the most famous mares in the English Stud Book, so renowned in fact that breeders refer to "the Sunshine family." Its members include Phalaris, Eager, Laveno, Orvieto, Neapolis, Wuffy, Waiontha,. Martian, Dunure, Hainault. Posi-tano and Balsarrooh, horses whose fame is known in almost every country in the world where thoroughbred "flourishes.
