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$ $ Childs or Wragg Will Ride Reigh Count in Ascot Gold Cup Race $ $ SPECIAL CABLEGRAM. LONDON. England. June 17.— Joe Childs or Harry Wragg will pilot Reigh Count when the American four-year-old colt runs in the Ascot Gold Cup next Thursday. The selection is still in doubt. Childs, under whom the invading thoroughbred won the Coronation Cup at Epsom on June 6. is still claimed by Lord Lascelles, owner of St. Jerome, which is a probable starter in the same race. If St. Jerome is not withdrawn trainer Bert Michell will entrust his charge to Wragg. Wragg is one of Englands leading riders. He was second to Gordon Richards, with eighty-nine winning mounts last year. He is clever at riding a waiting race, tactics which Childs employed so successfully on Reigh Count in the Coronation Cup. Wragg is also strong. He won the derby with Felstead last year. Arrangements have been completed for shipping Reigh Count from here on July 9. He will be returned to his native land on the Minnetonka. Trainer Michell will accompany him. Mrs. John D. Hertz, owner of Reigh Count, will show her silks in competition on three of the four days of the "Royal Ascot" meeting, which opens next Tuesday. On Wednesday Gipsy Day, which finished second to Kings Oven in the Newbury Summer Cup, over one mile and a half this week, will start in the Bessborough Stakes, one mile and a half, Thursday,. Reigh Count goes to the post in the Gold Cup. On Friday Impropriety will compete in the Wokingham Stakes, a three-quarters sprint. Gipsy King and Impropriety were purchased here by Mrs. Hertz after her arrival in England. Gipsy King is a five-year-old horse by Son-In-Law — Gipsy Queen. He was not disgraced in the Newbury Summer Cup. Ridden by an apprentice, he was beaten by half a length. His conqueror, Kings Oven, is a six-year-old by Gay Crusader — Postbridge and he has not been defeated this year. Reigh Counts other stable-mate. Impropriety, is a four-year-old chestnut colt by Somme Kiss — Grimson Square. Gipsy King and Impropriety will be shipped to the United States with Reigh Count. The latter continues to train well at Newmarket.
