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Queens Choir Boy Wins . Ascots Royal Hunt Cup Whips Brunetto, With Richards Up; Happy Laughter Successful By VERNON MORHAN j Reuters Turf Editor j ASCOT HEATH, Berkshire, England, j June 17. — Queen Elizabeth celebrated her j coronation here today at Ascot by winning l the Royal Hunt Cup, premier handicap of the Royal meeting, with her colt, Choir Boy. Choir Boy, brilliantly1 ridden by Doug- j las Smith, took the lead in the seven-fur- 3 long, 155-yard sprint in the last furlong r and, to tremendous applause, won cleverly T by two lengths. 3 The Queen was naturally delighted, espe- ! cially as her Hyperion colt, who started at 100-to-6, was not given an outstanding j chance in view of his two failures earlier ■ this season. _ The runner-up was Lord Durhams Brun- j etto, who looked all over the winner until : Choir Boy came on the scene, was ridden i by Gordon Richards. It will be recalled : that in the Derby it was Richards on Pinza who prevented the Queens horse, Aureole, from winning her Coronation Derby. Today she got sweet revenge. Lady Zia Wernhers Hilltop, stablemate of Choir Boy, being also trained at* Newmarket by Capt. Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, was a length behind Brunetto. Both the second and third horses were 100-to-8 shots. The weather was wet and unpleasant and the Royal party was unable to ride down the course in open carriages as is its custom. Immediately after Choir Boy took the lead, many in the huge crowd dashed down to the unsaddling enclosure to watch Her Majesty welcome her winner. Police had to form a cordon to let her through. Amid cheers, the Queen stepped forward to congratulate the trainer and jockey. Smith said: "Today has given me one of the biggest thrills of my riding career, though I have ridden many "winners for • the Royal family in the past." There was no "foreign" victory here today. Best of the challengers was Robert ; Sterling Clarks Epsom Derby failure, Good . Brandy, who finished second in the Jersey ■ Stakes, with Rhinehard, with Richards up, , winning by four lengths. The best the French could do was a third in the Queen Mary Stakes for juvenile fillies by Marcel Boussaos Cordova. The race was "won by Lord Milfords Sybils Niece, who was the first of three winners saddled by Jack Jarvis, who also sent out the winners of the Coronation and Ribble-dale Stakes. Harry Wills One Thousand Guineas winner, Happy Laughter, won the Coronation, while Lord Roseberys Skye toyed with her opposition in the Ribbledale. Billy Rickaby rode both Happy Laughter and Skye. Doug Smith also rode a double, scor- ing with Sleeping Warrior in the Dess-borough Stakes after winning with Choir Boy in the Hunt Cup.
