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IDDAY SUN WINNER OF COVETED EPSOM DERBY Outsider Carries Off Worlds Most Famous Thoroughbred Race Americas Hope and LastMinute Favorite Perifox Son Sonof of Gallant Fox Bred and Owned by William WilliamWoodward Woodward Finishes Fourth CablegramEPSOM Special Cablegram EPSOM DOWNS England June 2 Americas best chance in a number of years to carry off the coveted Epsom Derby the worlds most famous horse race went glimmering when William Woodwards Perifox a son of Gallant Fox and the lastminute favorite for the 158th running of the great English classic could do no better than finish fourth An outsider Midday Sun by Solario Bridge of Allan owned by Mrs G B Miller the first woman owner ever to win the blue ribband of the turf triumphed over Sandsprite another owned by a woman which finished second while the Aga Khans Le Grand Due led home the American favorite Perifox Ridden by the veteran Irish jockey Mike Beary Midday Sun finished the one and a half miles in front of Sandsprite a rank outsider Le Grand Due was another one and a half leneths back William Woodwards Perifox the only Americanbred horse in the race and the lastminute favorite was fourth in the field of twenty colts and one filly fillyThe The Americanbred son of Gallant Fox just managed to beat Marcel Boussacs Goya II out of fourth money moneyIn In winning the purse of about 48000 Mid ¬ day Sun ran the distance in the compara ¬ tively slow time of 237 237GOYA GOYA II DELAYS START STARTGoya Goya II delayed the start about five min ¬ utes but they finally broke all together Six horses ran in lineup the long first hill with 52yearold Steve Donoghue winner of six Derbys holding Victor Sasoons Renardo on the rail railRenardo Renardo and Goya II made most of the running to the mile post where W Murphys Fairford took charge of the situation tem ¬ porarily Meanwhile Beary was doing a fine job of rating Midday Sun back in the pack packHalfway Halfway down the final straightaway of three furlongs Midday Sun suddenly ap ¬ peared among the leaders running second from the rail He responded gamely to Bearys urging passing his tiring rivals and then holding off the belated challenges of Sandsprite and Le Grand Due DueWOMAN WOMAN OWNER SCORES SCORESMidday Midday Sun shone for Mrs G B Miller and her mother Mrs Talbot who jointly own the son of Solario Bridge of Allan in winning the 158th renewal of the historic Continued on thirtyseventh page MIDDAY SUN WINNER OF COVETED EPSOM DERBY Continued from first page Derby stakes It was the first time a lady owner has won the Epsom classic though true Lady James Douglas won the 1918 wartime substitute race with Gainsborough Mrs G B Miller is entitled to be honored guest at King George Vis Derby dinner at Buckingham Palace tonight but as that royal affair has ever been a stag party she is likely to forego the honor honorPurchased Purchased as a yearling by Mrs G B Miller from his breeder W T Sears Mid ¬ day Sun is a good looking strongly buljt bay colt by the St Leger Stakes and Ascot Gold Cup winner Solario SolarioMidday Midday Sun one of the most improved horses ift training as a twoyearold last year raced six times and only once finished in the money As a result in the official twoyearold Free Stakes Handicap he was given only ninetynine pounds Under this light Impost he won the seven furlongs test from the subsequent One Thousand Guineas winner Exhibitionist 106 pounds and seventeen others at the Newmarket Craven meeting April 15 Next outing he showed enough improvement to finish third to the French invader Le Ksar and Goya II in the classic Two Thousand Guineas but then was beaten five or six lengths for chief end of thejspoilsThis thejspoils This was the final test for todays great victory which now gives him the crown of champion among the threeyearolds He is eligible to contest the remaining classic the St Leger Stakes to be run at Doncaster September 6 6BEAKY BEAKY RIDES WELL WELLThe The Irish jockey Michael Beary rode a really well judged race and a brilliant finish in getting Midday Sun home in front and as a result received a measure of consola ¬ tion for his having elected to ride Rustom Pasha in preference to Blenheim when the last n med horse won the 1930 Derby for the Agfl Khan and the same owners Rustom Pasha finished out of the money Beary was then retained as first jockey to the Indian potentate It is Bearys first Derby winner and apparently a lucky chance mount as T Lowry who rode Mrs Millers good colt In the Two Thousand Guineas elected to ride the more fancied Solfo with such un ¬ happy results resultsBeary Beary one of tha older school of present day jockeys a native of CarrickonSuir County Waterford served his apprentice ¬ ship with the widely known Irish trainer J J Parkinson for whose Maddenstown Lodge Stable he won numerous races Later Beary rode for a few years with much suc ¬ cess for the Glen Cairn Stable of the late Tammany chieftain Richard Croker before he migrated to England where he has en ¬ joyed a great measure of success For many years he was first jockey to the Aga Khan but of more recent years has ridden as a free lance lanceMidday Midday Sun is the first Derby winner to be saddled by Fred Butters who now con ¬ trols the famous Kingsclere Stable from which establishment so many winners hailed In the days of the late John Porter PorterMidday Midday Suns Derby victory was worth ln the neighborhood of 48000 and his value as a race horse and future sire may now be estimated at around1 250000 i C
