Wins Rich Eclipse Stakes: King Salmon Repeats Coronation Cup Victory in the Richer Event-Windsor Lad Third, Daily Racing Form, 1934-07-21

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WINS RICH ECLIPSE STAKES King Salmon Repeats Coronation Cup Victory in the Richer Event — Windsor Lad Third. Special Cablegram. SANDOWN PARK, England, July 20.— Sir Richard Brookes King Salmon, winner of the Coronation Cup at Epsom Downs, won the rich Eclipse Stakes today from a field of ten, which included the Maharajah of Rajpiplas Derby winner, Windsor Lad. The Aga Khans Umidwar was second and Windsor Lad third. King George and Queen Mary were among the big crowd that witnessed the race. King Salmon won in a driving finish half a length in front of Umidwar. Windsor Lad was another half length back. King i Salmon was 4 to 1 in the betting, Umidwar I to 1, and Windsor Lad, favorite, at 5 to 2. It was the first defeat as a three-year- j old for the Derby winner. He is now being pointed for the St. Leger in September. King i Salmon, a four-year-old, won convincingly I under his crushing weight of 133 pounds, j Umidwar, a three-year-old, carried scale weight of 114 pounds, and Windsor Lad, with penalities, carried 124. The race, at a mile and a quarter, for three- and four-year-old colts and fillies, had a value of nearly 0,000. It is one of the richest races on the. English turf. .


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