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COSTLY TO ENGLISH LAYERS Nitsichins Cesarewitch Victory Results in Tremendous Losses for Bookmakers -More to Come. NEWMARKET, England. Not in many years have the English bookmakers suffered greater losses than by the victory of D. S. Kennedys Nitsichin in the Cesarewitch Stakes Handicap at Newmarket this month. The consistent running of Nitsichin all year and "her narrow margin of defeat in the Newmarket Cup- Handicap last month made a strong appeal to the racing public, who supported her solidly from longer odds down to 10 to 1, at which price she was one of the first choices. Besides, Nitsichin was coupled with most of the best fancied horses in the Cambridgeshire, and if one of the favorite horses won the last-named race the bookmakers would have been heavier losers. One lucky player, a resident of the English town.Barnet, stood to win 5,000 to 5 over the double event had Dorigen, the first choice, proved successful in the Cambridgeshire. This double event wager was laid by James Sutters of the Victoria Club, London. One of those, who did not benefit a penny in the betting market over the victory of Nitsichin was her owner, D. S. Kennedy, a London stock broker. This mare is the first race horse that ever sported his colors. She has won hi mclose to 0,000 to date for an outlay of ,800, the price she cost when sold for the second time as a yearling at the 1929 Doncaster sales. She was purchased by her successful trainer, Peter Thrale, who, in his earlier years, practiced as, a veterinary surgeon. He now has a big string of horses under his care at West Horsley, hear Leatherhead in Surrey. D. Shaw Kennedy, owner of Nitsichin, is his oldest and chief patron. By her victory in the Cesarewitch Nitsichin gave the Irish jockey Michael Beary, his second success in the long distance stake. He also was victorious on the Aga Khans Ut Majeur in 1930. Nitsichin, on her sires side, comes from a great, line of stayers, her sire Achtoi, a good distance racer and sire of a previous Cesarewitch winner in Arctic Star 1928, being a son of the Ascot Gold Cup hero Sanfoi, the sire of four Cesarewitch Stakes winners in Yutoi 1921, Fitz-Yama 1913, Sanctum 1916 and Yutoi 1921. The last-named horses own brother, He, was the runher-up to Air Raid in the Newmarket long distance race in 1918. " Nitsichin was bred in Ireland by Major V. H. Parr at the Mitchelstown Stud, Ath boy, County Meath, where her sire, Achtoi, has held court for many years. She is the seventh Irish-bred horse to carry off this important distance prize in the last ten years.
