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DERBY WINNERS DO WELL WELLIN IN ENGLISH RACING Reigh Count and Omaha Kentucky Derby Derbywinners winners in 1928 and 1935 respectively also alsoMate Mate which finished third to Twenty Grand Grandand and Sweep All in 1931 raced abroad after aftertheir their threeyearold years Reigh Count won wonthe the Coronation Cup and was second in the theAscot Ascot Gold Cup Omaha was successful in inthe the Victor Wild Stakes and Queens Plate Plateand and was second in the Princess of Wales WalesStakes Stakes and in the Ascot Gold Cup The Thelatter latter race was one of the best ever wit nessed in England and Omaha was only beaten by inches by the great mare Quashed j Some English critics were of the opinion that a dead heat would have been the fair j thing English sportsmen rate Omaha as assuperior superior to Reigh Count and one of the best beststayers stayers ever to come from America Mate Matewhile while one of the largest money winners in inthe the history of the American turf failed to tomake make much of an impression abroad his hisonly only important victory in England being in inthe the Challenge Cup
