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I 2,000 GUINEAS TODAY w Special Cablegram. NEWMARKET, England, April 26 Sir Humphrey De Traffords Portmarnock, champion of last seasons two-year-olds, is a 7 to 2 choice tp win the first of the English three-year-old classics, the Two Thousand Guineas, over the straight Rowley mile course tomorrow. A field of twenty is expected to start. It will be the one hundred -and twenty-ninth successive renewal of this stake, which was inaugurated in 1809. On his form last season, when winning three of his four races, Portmarnock is entitled to his position as favorite, even if the son of Fairway and Deeks Double has not won over a greater distance than six furlongs and has yet to make his 1938 bow" in racing. It is in the favor of Sir Humphrey De Traffords good looking bay colt that he hails from Captain Cecil Boyd-Rochforts Freemason Lodge Stable, so rich in three-year-olds, which already have made their mark in racing this season.
