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English Derby Will Be Renewed at Newmarket Today Despite War TwentyOne Colts in Famous Race Lambert Simnel to Rule Choice ChoiceNEWMARKET NEWMARKET England June 17 The English Derby usually one of the worlds greatest sporting events and the occasion of a mass holiday for Londoners will be run for the 162nd time without an interruption tomorrow but for the second straight year there will be little resemblance to the cus ¬ tomary gay Derby scene at Epsom Downs DownsShifted Shifted to this racing center last year because of Epsoms proximity to London and the accompanying danger of a raid over such a mass of humanity this marks the sixth time since Diomed won the first Derby in 1780 that war has brought the race to Newmarket The race was run here during the four years of tne World War WarAlthough Although Derby Day never was an official government holiday Parliament has been known to adjourn for a day and factories and business houses have closed to allow employees to attend the race As close as it ever could be estimated more than a million spectators including the King and Queen used to see the Derby but there sr rcely will be more than the normal New ¬ market racing crowd of 30000 minus the ing and Queen when the field of probably twentyone colts goes to the post at 200 1 m 1000 a m central daylight time timeomorrow omorrowDIFFICULT omorrow DIFFICULT TO KEACH KEACHNewmarket Newmarket is seventy miles from London and extremely difficult to reach from most of the larger cities under wartime traveling conditions Few persons now want to risk the chance of criticism for driving their automobiles to the race since on previous big race days during the past two years newspapers published big pictures of jammed parking lots and demanded to know where the public obtained gilsoline for such pleas ¬ ures uresOfficially Officially the government frowns on such use of gasoline but refuses to halt racing partly to give war workers some relaxation but chiefly to maintain the valuable horse breeding industry Many who could attend will not because the old Derby Day was something more than a horse race and the wartime glamourThe version carries none of its glamour The race itself conforms to all of the usual Epsom Derby conditions It is a mile and onehalf for threeyearold colts and fil ¬ lies the former carrying 126 pounds the latter 121 However the probable field in ¬ cludes no fillies Newmarket is a faster course than Epsom Fred Darlings Pont LEveque set the local Derby record of 230 last year compared to the mark of 233 registered by the Aga Khans Mah moud at Epsom in 1936 1936WDLL WDLL NET WINNER 4473 POUNDS POUNDSUsually Usually worth about 10000 pounds to the winners owner this years running will net the victor only 4473 pounds but the money itself will npt mean much if the favorite Lambert Simnel wins because his owner the Duke of Westminster reputedly is one of the richest men in Great Britain BritainLambert Lambert Simnel owes his favoritism to his comfortable victory in the first major race of the season the Two Thousand Guineas on April 30 The opposition will be almost the same sameThree Three women have four entries this year including the second choice Morogoro owned by the Maharani Saheb of Kolpahar She is making her debut in big time racing with the smallest colt in the field Only two women owners have seen their thorough ¬ breds led back to the winners circle in the history of the race Mrs G B Miller won it with Midday Sun in 1937 and Lady James Douglas took it with Gainsborough in 1918 the last year the Derby was run here until the beganOne present war began One likely starter Fairy Prince belongs to Lieut F T Williams who how is a pris ¬ oner of war in Germany No American owned horses are scheduled to run
