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LEADERS OF ENGLISH TURF Aga Khan Most Successful Among Owners and Breeders. Firdaussi Heads List of Winning Horses Udapurs Oaks and Coronation Stakes Victories. Special Correspondence. LONDON, England. With the Doncaster St. Leger meeting three-fourths of the Jockey Club racing season had been run, and the turf statistics for that period make interesting reading. It may appear premature, but the leading positions on the roll of honor for 1932 are virtually assured, despite the fact that there are still several valuable prizes to be run. Firdaussis victory in the St. Leger Stakes, the richest of this years classics, made the Aga Khan the leading winning owner. To September 10, inclusive, the Indian potentates silks had been carried by ten horses, winners of seventeen races and 40,077 in first money prizes alone. The. chief contributors to this total are the Oaks and Coronation Stakes winner, Udapur, victor of three races and 9,812 in first prizes, and Pirdaussi, winner of the St. Leger and Gordon Stakes and first money of 3,610. The Aga Khan has now won 4,000 more than Lord Roseberg, his nearest rival. The last-named sportsman had ten winners of thirteen races and 4,702 in first moneys. The chief subscriber was the Eclipse and Newmarket Stakes winner, Miracle, which garnered 4,891. Englands premier sportsman. Lord Lonsdale, due to the three successes of his champion juvenile filly, Myro-bella, winner of 3,338 leading two-year-olds winner, occupies third place in this list. Six of his horses won eleven races and 4,016. FRENCH OWNERS SUCCESS. Lord Woolavington, with thirteen horses, won twenty-one races and 9,452. The French sportsman, E. de St. Alary, who for years has supported racing in England as well as his native land on a pretentious scale, won three races and 8,861 with three horses. Of this total, 8,119 was garnered by Kandy, winner of the One Thousand Guineas. Mrs. Arthur James six horses won fourteen races and earned 8,630. Tha Anglo-American sportsman, W. Mortimer G. Singer, due chiefly to Orwells victory in the Two Thousand Guineas, ranks seventh. Three of his horses won four races and 7,-912. Owner-trainer Tom Walls, with two horses, won five races and 9,166, of which the Derby hero, April the Fifth, contributed 6,883. In the winning breeders table the Aga Khan is also the leader, twelve of his Irish-bred horses having accounted for nineteen races and 43,791 in first prizes. This total gave him a clear lead of 2,000 over horses grouped as bred in France, thirty-six of which won forty-six races and 11,791 in prizes. NATIONAL STUD IS THIRD. Third in this table is the National Stud, Ireland, which farm, like the Aga Khans Irish breeding establishment, is under the direction of Sir Harry Greer. The National Stud had seventeen winners of forty-one races and 0,976. Lord Beaverbrook, as the breeder of three winners including Miracle of four races, won 7,250. That ardent supporter of racing, Mrs. Arthur James, had nine home-bred winners of seventeen races and 1,615. ord Derby, who has topped this list on many occasions, dropped down to sixth place, fourteen of the Stanley House Stud breds winning twenty-four races and 0,229. J. S. L. Whitelcw, breeder of the Derby hero April the Fifth, comes next, two of his horses winning four races and 7,419. Lord Furness Irish-bred had five winners of seven races and earned 6,166. Frank Butters holds a clear lead in the winning trainers list, having saddled twenty-two horses to win thirty-eight races and 76,638. Of this sum, 34,894 was won by the Aga Khans horses in his care, while for other patrons of his Fitzroy House Stable he won 1,744. As private trainer to Lord Derby, Butters was the leading trainer in 1927-1928 and was third in 1929-1930, winning during his four years of office ,012,100 in first prizes alone. Fred Darling, the Heckampton wizard, is second, having saddled thirty-two horses to win fifty-four races and 43,791, while the Honorable George Lambton is in third place, twenty-one of his horses having accounted for thirty-seven races and 8,662. The Man-ton trainer, Joe Lawson, who last year set a new worlds record, has dropped to fourth place, having saddled twelve horses to win sixteen races and 1,599. Jack Jarvis, as usual, is prominent, having condtioned twenty-one horses to win thirty-two races and 0,993. The veteran M. Dabson Peacock again has the distinction of winning the greatest number of races, sixty-five, with a total of 0,956 won by forty-one horses. RICHARDS MAY BEAT OWN MARK. Englands premier jockey, Gordon Richards, has prospects of beating his own record of 164 winners made in 1927, as he has already this season been astride 123 winners, giving him a lead of forty winners over his nearest rival. He is almost assured of leading the jockeys for the sixth time in ten years of riding. Harry Wragg holds second place, with eighty-three winners, or twelve more than the Northern horseman, Willie Nevett. Tom-. my Weston is fourth, with sixty-five, or eleven more than Dick Perryman. The veteran Freddie Fox has topped the fifty-winner mark and leads another veteran, the popular Steve Donoghue, by ten. Gainsborough 1915, son of Bayardo Rosedrop, leads in the winning sires list, with twenty winners of twenty-three races and 02,406 in first prize. Manna 1922, by Phalaris Waffles, is second, with fifteen winners of twenty-two races and 7,273. Third place goes to the defunct Coloroado 1923, with fourteen winners of thirty races and 5,806. Another young sire, Solario 1922, son of the champion Gainsborough i and Sun Worship, is fourth, with eleven winners of sixteen races and 1,892. Bland-ford 1919, Swynford Blanche, with nine winners of fifteen races and 9,875, just tops Pharos 1920, Phalaris Scapa Flow, with twelve winners of twenty-one races and 9,-618. Abbots Trace 1917, Tracery Abbots Anne, is seventh, with sixteen winners of Twenty-eight races and 8t355
