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AGA KHAN AGAIN LEADER 4 Heads Winning Owners for First Half of English Racing Season. Fred Darling Tops the Trainers, While Gordon Richard Holds a Substantial Lead Over the Jockeys. Special Correspondence. LONDON, Eng. With the half-way "mark in English racing passed, a review o the statistics may prove interesting. The following records and figures were compiled from March 14 to July 16, inclusive and pertain to racing under Jockey Club rules only. The leading position in the winning owners list again is held by the Aga Khan, whose successes on the British turf in the past ten years has been phenomenal. During that decade he has three times been the leading winning owner, twice runner-up and twice third. His horses have won more than 266,436 pounds ,332,180 in first money prizes, this grand aggregate not including this seasons winnings to date. Thi3 year eight of his horses won eleven races and 21,519 pounds about 7,470, which total is chiefly due to the efforts of his champion three-year-old filly Udaipur, winner of the Oaks and Coronation Stakes. Balandshar, Tja Kasra and Aidetta were other good winners for the Indian potentate: Lor.d Roseberry, who finished fourth among last years winning owners, ha3 moved into second place, six of his horses having accounted for nine races and 3,337 in first prizes. Miracle, winner of the Eclipse and Newmarket Stakes, accounted for 6,174 of this total. For more than a quarter of a century an ardent supporter of the British turf, as well as racing and breeding in his native France, E. de St. Alary, with three of his horses winning three races and 0,972 in stakes, occupies third place. His chief winner is Kandy, winner of the One Thousand Guineas, the first classic "victory to fall to thi3 supporter of the turf. The Anglo-American sportsman, W. Mortimer G. Singer, runner-up in the winning owners last year, drops into fourth place, with three of his horses winning four races and 8,997, to which total Orwell, winner pf two races, including the Two Thousand Guineas, contributed 3,480. TOM WALLS IN LIMELIGHT. Due to his successes in the Derby and two other races, April the Fifth gives his owner-trainer, Tom Walls, his first prominent place in the list by adding stakes value for 6,083 to his credit. In sixth place 13 Englands premier sportsman, Lord Lonsdale, whose five winners of nine races earned 4,479. The best contribution was by the two-year-old Myrobella, heroine of two races and winner of 6,714. Due to Andreas successes in the St. James Palace and Royal Standard Stakes, the Duke of Marlborough, who purchased the. colt late in the spring for 2,500, has won the sum of 1,961. Lord Woolavington, with the greatest number of winners, nine, victors in twelve races and earners of 0,-485, was the most successful of the other owners. In the winning breeders list, French-bred horses, second under this heading last year, moved into first place, with twenty-seven winners of thirty-one races and 7,896 in first money prizes. The principal contributor was Kandy. The Aga Khan, who breeds most of his racing stock in Ireland, and for some years has held a prominent position under this heading, is in second place, with nine of his Irish-bred horses the winners of twelve races and 8,523. Another Irish stock farm, the National Stud, Kildare, the property of the British government, is third in the breeders list, fifteen of the horses from this establishment having accounted for twenty-eight races and 1,986 in first money prizes, the smart two-year-old filly, Myrobella, being the chief subscriber. Lord Beaverbrdok, as the breeder of Miracle, winner of the Eclipse and Newmarket Stakes, and one other winner, ha3 won 6,866 and occupies fourth place. G. !5. L. Whitelaw, breeder of the Derby winner, April the Fifth, and another victor, whose earnings total 8,690, takes fifth place by a narrow margin. Lord Furness, who breeds his thoroughbreds at the Giltown Stud, Ireland, follows closely with five winners of seven races and 6,276, Orwell, the Two Thousand Guineas hero, being the chief contributor. DARLING AGAIN ON TOP. Fred Darling, often termed the wizard of Bechampton and always a prominent figure in the winning trainers list, which he topped in 1926, again holds the lead, as he saddled twenty-five horses to win thirty-seven races and ,113,956 in first prizes. Frank Butters, who led in 1927-28, is second, fifteen of his charges having accounted for twenty-three races and 4,416. Third place goes to Joe Lawson, the Manton conditioner, who set a worlds record last year by saddling the winners of 69,495 in first prizes. Lawsons winners this season number ten. They won twelve races and 2,860. Jack Jarvis, always prominent, sent out sixteen horses to win twenty-four races and 3,206. The veteran trainer, M. Dobson Peacock, who saddled the winners of ninety-nine races to win 14,015 last year, may better that record, as he has already sent out thirty-four horses to win forty-nine races and earn 1,643. Englands premier jockey, Gordon Richards, who has headed the winning riders list four times in the past five years, again has a substantial lead over his rivals for this seasons championship, with seventy-four victories, a winning percentage of 17.33. Harry Wragg, runner-up to Richards last year, is again his closest rival with fifty-six winners. Though Willie Nevett occupies third place on this table with fifty-four successes, his percentage of 20.93 is the best. Next in the list comes Tommy Weston, with forty-two winners; Dick Ferryman, thirty-eight; S. Wragg, thirty-five; Pat Beasley, thirty-three, and the veteran, Freddie Fox, who ousted Gordon Richards from the lead in 1930, is credited with thirty-one,
