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EPSOM DERBY WINNER Lord Derbys Hyperion Victorious in Worlds Famous Race. Scores in New Record Time of 2:34 to Beat King Salmon, With American-Owned Statesman Third. - Special Cablegram. EPSOM DOWNS, England, May 31 Running the gruelling course of one mile and a half in new record time for the classic, Lord Derbys Hyperion easily won the Derby here today. He finished four lengths in advance of Sir Hugo Cunliffe Owens King Salmon, with Statesman, owned by the American turfman Victor Emanuel, third another length away. Lord Durhams Scarlet Tiger was fourth. Thrapston, the winners stable-mate, was fifth, and Sir Abe Baileys Raymond was sixth. Last of the twenty-four horse field to cross the finish was Col. F. J. Lundgrens Coroado, and among the beaten off were Lord Woolavingtons Highly regarded Manitoba, W. M. G. Singers Myoso-tis, the only other American-owned starter, and Franz Hal, which carried the colors of the Irish tenor and papal count, John Mc-Cormack. Hyperion covered the course, running the first half-mile uphill circling the turn, and the sharp Tattenham Corner on a downward slop, into the level straightaway until the last hundred yards, which is slightly uphill, in 2:34 flat. This clipped two-fifths of a second off the old record established by Frank Curzons Call Boy in 1927 and equalled the following year by Sir Hugh Cunliffe Owens Felstead. Todays race was run over a hard course and under ideal weather conditions. The value of this years renewal of the worlds greatest horse race was 7,346 to the winner, ,676 to second, ,338 to third and ,000 to the breeder of the winner. Lord Derby also received the breeding premium. Lord Derbys starter was the post favorite at 6 to 1, displacing Manitoba over night. The latter went to the post second choice at 13 to 2. King Salmon was 7 to 1 and Statesman 15 to 1. Scarlet Tiger was quoted at 18 to 1. The large field was well behaved at the post. It was Hyperions race all the way. Jockey Weston allowed Thrapston, with the veteran Steve Donoghue, winner of six Der-bys, in the saddle, to make the early running. Hyperion followed his stablemate, running easily a few lengths behind. Manitoba was in a forward position for the first mile. Rounding the turn approaching Tattenham Corner, Weston made his move with Hyperion. Manitoba tried to match it but failed. Swinging into the run home he began to fall back, whereas Hyperion moved up on Continued on twenty-third page. EPSOM DERBY WINNER Continued from first page. the rail. He came clear in the stretch after staving off a stout challenge on the outside by King Salmon. The latter finished courageously as is his wont but was not good enough for the winner. Lord Derby was given a riotous ovation when he led in .Hyperion and walked him around the ring. He was summoned to the royal box, where he was congratulated by the king. In the box also were Queen Mary, the Duke and Duchess of York, Duke of Gloucester and the Earl of Harewood. The victory of Lord Derbys champion colt Hyperion in the one hundred and fiftieth running of the Derby wa3 extremely popular. The classic was named .for his ancestor, the twelfth Earl of Derby, who won the race with Sir Peter Teazle in 1787. Then came a gap of centuries until the present master of Stanley House won with Sanso-vino in 1924. His black jacket and white cap had been carried into second place the previous year by Fharaso, a position they also occupied in 1911, when Stedfast was runner up to Sunstar. In 1926 another Stanley house color bearer Colorado finished third. No owner-breeder in all England has met with more consistent success than Lord Derby, whose horses in the past quarter of a century have won about two million pounds. The horses that carry his silks, with few exceptions, are home-bred, and his latest victor is not one of the exceptions. Bred by Lord Derby and foaled April 18, 1930, Hyperion is a medium sized but attractive and well balanced chestnut son of the war time triple crown winner and successful Bire, Gainsborough which horse has now sired his first Derby winner from Selene, which mares first offspring was Sickle, a smart race horse and promising sire, now owned by the American sportsman, Joseph E. Widener, and holding court at his Elem-dorf Stud, Kentucky. Other high class winners from Selene include Guiscard, Newmarket stakes winner; Hunters Moon and Pharmond H., the last named a high class race horse later purchased for American stud duty by that good judge of horse flesh, C. J. Fitzgerald. Hyperion is the best horse Selene has produced. This mare, winner of six races worth 3,255, is a daughter of Chaucer, from Serenissima, by the 1909 Derby winner, Minora, from Gondolette, by Loved One, from Dougola, by Doncaster, from Dourance, and is of the number- six family. Selene won, among other races, the 1922 Liverpool Autumn Cup, at which time Lord Derbys son and heir, Lord Stanley, was seeking his first election as a conservative member of the house of commons. At. the close of one of his campaign speeches in Liverpool he publicly gave a tip on the mare to win the cup, which she did. Lord Stanley was sent to parliament with an overwhelming majority. Hyperion is unbeaten this season. As a prelude to his Derby victory he won the one mile and a half Chester Vase early this month. Last year the son of Gainsborough raced five times. After running fourth to Aidetta when making his debut in the Zetland Plate at Doncaster in May, he easily won the New Stakes at Ascot. He followed this success by running a dead heat with Mrs. Marshall Fields good filly Stirway in the Princess of Wales Stakes at Goodwood in July. He did not race again until the Newmarket first October meeting when he finished a poor third to Manitoba and Tavern in the Boscawen Post Stakes. He finished his juvenile career by a smart victory in the Dewhurst Stakes at the Newmarket final October meeting. Hyperions victory in the Derby gave both his trainer, the honorable George Lambton, and his jockey, the Yorkshire boy, Tommy Weston, their second Derby successes.
