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English Juvenile Queen Fails to Show Stamina Lady Sybil, Now Three, Through Early in Newmarket Event NEWMARKET, England.— Martin Bensons Lady Sybil, the best of her age and sex as a two-year-old last season, disappointed her owner at the Newmarket meeting in May by proving her inability to race farther than six furlongs in the one-mile Chatteris Stakes. This poor showing pointed her out as a non-stayer that caused her withdrawal from the first of the classics, the New One Thousand Guineas. In her Chatteris Stakes test Lady Sybil was well beaten at the end of the six furlongs, the race being won by Aga Khans Nasrullah, but not until he had left a big doubt in many spectators minds as to his disposition to race kindly. He gave a deplorable display of bad manners before the race, flatly declined to go to the post and eventually was taken there under duress. A police constable on a horse was called to enforce the law on him. He was in a more chastened mood when he lined up at the starting gate, was well away and won by half a length from Captain J. U. Baillies Response, a son of the 1928 Derby Stakes winner, Felstead, with the good looking Herald, carrying the silks of his American owner-breeder, William Woodward, six lengths away in third place. It was not easy to estimate the value of Nasrullahs win. Some critics professed to think that Gordon Richards could have made the verdict more than half a length, but others dissent. After the race Nasrullah, the colt with temper, as well as speed, was made a 7 to 4 choice to win the New Two Thousand Guineas. It is now history that Aga Khans Irish bred colt failed to finish nearer than fourth in the classic, won by Kingsway. As a result of this failure, Nasrullah is easy to back in the future books on the Derby. The sons and daughters of Nearco in their second season have not established themselves as stayers. First there was the well regarded Nearly at the Newmarket Craven meeting, then Lady Sybil, both only sprinters. Nasrullah does not go right out with them, but he remains doubtful.
