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Englands Royal Family Out for Ascot Opening Gordon Richards Rides Trio of Winners on Six-Race Program ASCOT, England, June 18. Reuters. King George, VI., Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary and Princess Elizabeth gave the first post-war Ascot meeting, which opened a four-day session today at the vintage course, just 29 miles west of London, a touch of royalty, by driving down the course in open landaus with postillions mounted on the famous Windsor-grey horses, but otherwise the dress and program was conducted with wartime austerity. The piece de resistance of the four-day meeting will come on Thursday when the Ascot Gold Cup, testing two and one-half mile race, will be held. Six races have been scheduled daily instead of the usual seven, but none of the purses have been reduced. Virtually every good horse in England will be seen in action and about 50,000 in purses will be distributed during the four days. Although Sir John Jarvis colt, Reynard Volant, captured the big race on the opening card, the two and one-half mile Ascot Stakes, jockey Gordon Richards shared the spotlight by riding the winner in the last three events. Richards, Englands champion jockey, scored the first of his three victories with John Dewars colt, Tudor Minstrel, who won the Coventry, two-year-old stakes over five furlongs. Tudor Minstrel, son of the Derby winner, Owen Tudor, and already backed at 16 to 1 for next years Derby, -romped home by four lengths. Richards added the second part of his "hat trick" when he won the Queen Mary Stakes, over five furlongs, for two-year-old fillies, with Mrs. MacDonald Buchanans Apparition. Richards ended his days chores by taking the Aga Khans Derby failure, Khaled, across the finish line two lengths in front of Aldis Lamp in the St. James Palace Stakes.
