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CESAREWITCH TO CONTREYENT Winner FrenchBredTrainedOwned FrenchBredTrainedOwnedand and Bidden by French Jockey Dubonnet Buns Second Special Cablegram CablegramNEWMARKET NEWMARKET England Oct 26 Con trevent under tho light Impost of 92 pounds which included jockey Arthur Tucker won the two and onequarter miles Cesarewitch Stakes today leading home Dubonnet Fct and twentyfive other starters Contrevent Is a threeyearold owned by the Princess Lucille de Faucigny Lucingc of France He closed at 100 to 7 in the betting Dubonnet owned by J Horn ung and ridden by Gordon Richards also was 100 to 7 Fet was 9 to 1 Contrevent won by a length and a half from Dubonnet which finished the same distance in front of Fet James V Ranks Black Speck and Sir Woodman Burbidges Solonaise were joint favorites at 8 to 1 1Princess Princess De Faucigny Lucinges Contre ¬ vent is the third Frenchbred and trained horse to win the Cesarewitch Stakes in the past fifteen years He is also Frenchowned and was piloted to victory by the French lightweight E Tucker so the result was truly a Gallic success The previous French winners of the distance event Rose Prince and Forseti were owned by the American sportsman A K Macomber who completed the notable double of winning both the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire in 1925 with Forseti and Masked Marvel This unique feat has again been accomplished by Frenchowned bred trained and ridden horses this season Two weeks ago M Jacques Mellcrs Helleniqua won the Cam ¬ bridgeshire Stakes as a prerunner to Con trevents victory in the Cesarewitch CesarewitchContrevcnts Contrevcnts victory was a disastrous one for the bookmakers as he was one of the bestplayed horses in the field his success sent huge sums in bets across the channel to France FranceThe The bookmakers had their worst race in years as J P Hornungs Dubonnet which finished second was also heavily played and equally well backed was E Bensons Fet The lastnamed horse finished in the money for the third straight time He won this race in 1936 was the runnerup last year and now took the show reward A truly con ¬ sistent performance
