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Why Hurry Gave Owner Second Classic Victory Oaks Winner Owned by J. V. Rank Who Captured St. Leger of 1938 By Special Correspondent. NEWMARKET, England. — James V. Rank, one of our most extensive owner-bieeders of the present who became prominently identified with the turf a decade ago, scored his second classic success recently in the one mile and a half New Oaks, when his home-bred filly Why Hurry carried his popular "royal blue and prim-lose" silks to victory in the Ladies Derby" I at Newmarket. Why Hurry, who finished out of the money in the first of the fillies classics, the one-mile New One Thousand Guineas, previously at Newmarket, found the additional half-mile of the Oaks to her liking and, showing real gameness and abundance of stamina, came from far back to score by a neck in a thrilling finish over Lord Rose-berys | diminutive but consistent filly, Ribbon. | I I Mrs. Macdonald Buchanans Tropical Sun, the choice in the betting, saved third place from the New One Thousand Guineas heroine Herringbone, who raced for her veteran owner-breeder, Lord Derby. Why Hurry covered the one mile and a half route in 2: 33 Vs. the second fastest time for the race, the record time, 2:3025, being set up two years ago by E. Harnsworths Godiva. Why Hurry, a half sister to the smart colt, Comique, by the Ascot Gold Cup winner, Precipitation, out of Cybiane, by Blandford, raced but twice as a two-year-old, making an unsuccessful debut in the six-furlong Beamister Plate, won by the unnamed bay filly by Colombo — Lovely Peg, with Tropical Sun the runner-up and Why Hurry finishing fifth at Salisbury on August 29. At the same point on October 17, Why Hurry, ridden by the stable jockey, J. Doyle, broke from the maiden ranks, easily accounting for the seven-furlong Maiden Plate, scoring by two lengths from Cher-well and an old rival, Tropical Sun, in a field of fifteen starters. Why Hurry was well fancied and heavily played by her owner to win this race and I gave proof that stamina would be her forte. , Mr. Ranks previous classic victory was that , of Scottish Union in the 1938 renewal of ■ the St. Leger Stakes.
