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] I t 1 1 a c t ? s i 1 I e j j c i s i 1 t I ■ 1 £ ! I 1 : t j J I j j 1 I € ! t , C | I | j j c j 1 j j I I s a [ , t I f r «■ *[ ; ■ * c I , r I j J I 1 1 I I a | * j J c r v i | " a f S f a FINAL DAY AT ROYAL ASCOT Englands Greatest Meeting Closes ! With Todays Brilliant Program. More Than 0,000 Remains to Be Distributed , — Chief Interest Is Displayed in Wokingham Stakes. Special Cablegram. ASCOT, England, June 15. — However good i the play the curtain has to fall! Another a brilliant Ascot drama is drawing to a close, t The last act tomorrow will set the seal on a wonderful meeting over the Royal Berkshire I 1 course. | 1 Mores than 0,000 in stakes remains to be L I disbursed, with chief interest centering j I j around the Wokingham Stakes Handicap, a 3 six furlongs sprint that has adorned Ascots r final day program for almost a century. As t usual, this sprint will attract a large field. Last year there were twenty-six competitors 1 and tomorrows field will not fall far short c of that number. r French-bred horses may enjoy a field day r in our longest distance event, the two mile 1 six furlong and eighty-five yard Queen 1 1 Alexandra Stakes. This fixture never fails 1 1 but to bring to mind gallant old Brown Jack, 1 i l which set up the unique record of winning 1 the event six years in succession starting in 1929. FOXGLOVE H.S OBJECTIVE i This is the Ascot race that has been t specially selected for Peter Beattys smart : -y French-bred stayer, Foxglove II., winner of I x the two mile Ascot Vase over this course last ■ year and later that season victor in the two I miles and a quarter of the Jockey Club Cup. a a He is now trained in this country, and with : c Sir Abe Baileys Valerian, winner of this a event two years ago, he has the best chance I to ward off the challenges from across the 1 channel. | Best of the Gallic challengers may prove t Jean Bouties pretender, a gray five-year- | a old unsexed son of the 1924 Ascot Gold Cup r winner, Massine and Royaliste, winner of his last two starts, the three mile, one furlong j Prix Rainbow at Longchamps last month, s and the two miles and a half Prix de Dangu -] at Chantilly, June 4. | v Another real French-bred and -trained ! threat is Edward Esmonds stout running j j 1 four-year-old Foxlight, son of Foxhunter, winner of the 1933 Ascot Gold Cup, and victor of the French equivalent of the same t named trophy event, the Prix DuCadran, run over the two mile and a half route at Long- I t champs last month. j WINDSOR CASTLE STAKES. A race at Royal Ascot tomorrow of interest to American sportsmen will be the five furlongs Windsor Castle Stakes, in which 1 i the American-bred two-year-old El Morocco, I owned by Lord Carnarvon and rated by many as our best juvenile, will be severely I tested. The speedy son of Ariel and Sable Lady, which cost his English owner ,400 a at the Saratoga yearling sales, comes up to the race with three starts and three vie- a tories to his credit. i : i Other races set for decision tomorrow in- t elude the 8,000 Hardwicke Stakes, at one ! mile and a half, for three-year-olds and up- j j I ward; the Jersey Stakes and the Britannia t Stakes Handicap, both for three-year-olds ; ; J and run over the same distance of seven j | J furlongs and 155 yards. The Kings Stand j j I Stakes, for three-year-olds and upward, at I I I five furlongs, will ring down the curtain on [ j J another Royal Ascot meeting. I , i: 4-
