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. : : News From England G arden State N ext For The Pie King By CLIVE GRAHAM London Correspondent, Daily Racing Form LONDON, England, Aug. 28 The Pie King confirmed his mastery over the Eng-j lish two-year-old colts with another fluent ; wm in Yorks Gimcrack Stakes last week. The winning margin was one of four lengths, and The Pie King was in no danger of defeat from the half-way stage in this historic six-furlong race. His objective now is the Garden State on October 29, for which Paddy Pren-dergast will prepare him in Ireland The colt will be shipped across the Atlantic about mid-October, so as to have some 10 days in which to acclimate. Prendergast has a dirt strip on his private training ground at The Curragh, and The Pie King has already been working on this. His trainer is not worried now about the colts ability to run when he feels the dust in his face. This is a factor which has stopped many English horses from showing their true form on American tracks. Zuccheros inept display in last years Empire Gold Cup comes readily to mind in this connection. Ray Bell and his trainer have already decided not to fit their colt with toe clips. There are one or two minor problems to be ironed out. One is the question of jockeyship. Ray Bell has already provisionally booked a leading American rider, but Prendergast is minded to put up an English boy. The other dilemma facing The Pie Kings connections concerns the post position especially if this new prize attracts, as it may well do, 16 to 20 starters. "I am not sure that I would be very happy about ninning our good colt if he draws one of the outside numbers." That was Ray Bells comment as he thought over this venture out loud a couple of hours after seeing his colt stride to victory. Prendergast showed English racegoers another high class two-year-old in Moonlight Express, who won his first race in the style of a great horse. It was a five furlongs allowance event, and the big brown colt showed surprising speed for one of his breeding. He is by the defunct Blue Train Blue Peter Sun Chariot out of a mare by Tiberius, win-. ner of the Ascot Gold Cup. He is due to come over to England again in October to meet our top-class colts in ihe Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket. There was ah exciting finish to the Nunthorpe Stakes, one of our great sprint races. This is run at weight-for-age over five furlongs, and for the first time in its history was won by a two-year-old, High Treason. Jim Joels colt by Court Martial from a Gold Bridge mare, was receiving 28 pounds from Pampa and Fairy Flax, the two four-year-olds who finished second and third. Many of our trainers could not be convinced , before the race that this difference in weight would offset the advantage held by the older and more seasoned sprinters. High Treason, however, was able to go along with them from the start, and was in front most of the way. He will not be trained for next years classics, his owner having already decided to keep him for short distance racing. Premonition, one of our best staying three-year-old colts, won the Voltigeur Stakes under 133 pounds. On the strength of this performance, and his unlucky experience in the Irish Derby, he will be a popular bet against Pinza and Aureole in next months St. Leger. Wyandank showed himself to be top of the four-year-old class at on and one-half miles by scoring his fourth victory of the year in the Great Yorkshire Stakes. He is a possible contender for the Washington, D. C, International at Laurel. Another feature of York racing was Zuccheros victory over Thirteen of Diamonds, last years Irish Derby winner, in the Rose of York Stakes one mile. He ran anything but an even race and bored first to the right and then to the left before Piggott could finally straighten him and get him stretched out. This was prob-
