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Airborne 13th Irish-Bred To Capture Epsom Derby Gray Son of Precipitation and Bouquest Bred at Middleton Stud DUBLIN, Ireland. — Airborne, who carried the silks of the English sportsman, J. E. Ferguson, to victory in the one hundred and sixty-seventh running of the Epsom Derby yesterday, is the thirteenth Irish-bred horse to win the premier classic during the present century. In fact, all the Irish-bred winners scored over the exacting Derby course at Epsom and three of the 13 were grays, including the filly Tag-alie, the heroine of 1912; Mahmoud, the victor in 1936, and the later victor, Airborne. Airborne was bred at the Middleton Park Stud, Castletown, Georghan County, West-meath, by Lt.-Col. H. Boyd-Rochfort, being a good-looking gray colt, by the 1937 Ascot Gold Cup winner, Precipitation, out of Bouquest dam of the other winners, Fragrant View and Bulldozer. Bouquest, who did not win, is by Buchan, out of Hellespont a winner of one race, by Gay Crusader, out of Barrier, by Grey Leg. Barrier was the dam of five winners, including Barrulet, the American-bred Tracery, a winner of five races and 2,750. Airborne, sent up by his breeder to the 1944 Newmarket September yearling sales, was sold for 3,000 to his present owner, J. E. Ferguson. Airborne, who proved the best stayer in the Derby stakes test, also is eligible for the final classic, the St. Leger Stakes, to be run at Doncaster on September 11.
