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fP: England Taboun, Petite Etoile Complete Rare Guineas Double for Prince Aly Khan By CLIVE GRAHAM Our London Correspondent LONDON. — The Aly Khans vast racing and thoroughbred-breeding operations — the last available figures show a count of 73 broodmares and 90 horses in training — yielded a rich dividend at Newmarket last week. Taboun fully justified Alec Heads confidence when beating Masham handily by three lengths in the Two Thousand Guineas. Two days*-later, Petite Etoile put him top of the Owners List by beating Rosal-ba and Paraguana for the fillies classic. Taboun, by the little-regarded sire, Tabriz, from Noors half7 sister Queen of Basra, was not entered for the Derby, and will be kept to mile events until the £ a I £ I £ 1 ■ « 1 i J ] 1 ! i i ; 1 | ■ 3 1 1 * Champion Stakes at Newmarket in October. On the whole, the "2,000" field were not high-class bunch. The almost-black Carnoustie by Dante, and Native Dancers son Dan Cupid, were the pick on looks, for Masham shows a lot of daylight under him and Hieroglyph was shivering and funking while being saddled. Taboun, a tall colt, standing over 16 hands, strode down to the starting post in a style which caused many spectators to double their bets, and he came back just as fluently, handling the descent into the Dip without becoming unbalanced, and sprinting clear up the final hill. Piggott Chose Collyria The surprise attached to the One Thousand Guineas was that the winner, should I have been Petite Etoile, with Doug Smith in second colors, and not the French- -trained Paraguana. Noel Murless, who trains the winner, saddled four others, and stable jockey, Lester Piggott, despite exhortations from Aly Khan, chose Sir Victor Sassoons Collyria. The winner, a gray filly by Petition, started third choice at 8-1, and got the better of a sustained duel with J. J. Astors . Court Martial filly Rosalba, over the last quarter mile. * The fillies ran the mile in two seconds 1 better time than the colts, and were, all in all, the more taking group of individuals. . Among those which finished behind the ] leading three, Rose of Medina by Never , Say Die , Lindsay by Dante and Mirnaya by Nearco will find favor for the Oaks at Epsom next month. Food for thought for breeding theorists. Queen of Basra, Star of Iran and Auld Al- : liance— the daihs of the three big winners : last week, won two small races between them. Auld Alliance, Tomy Lees dam, had ; to go to Edinburgh for a race worth 00, , to gain the winning bracket against her , " name. The Jockey Club Cup, reduced in distance to iy2 miles, followed the Two Thour sand Guineas, and provided a sensation, when the French-bred five-year-old, Va-carme,"beat the 2-5 favorite, Alcide, a nose. Alcide, despite strong urging from Harry Carr, was caught by the challenger in the last 50 yards. It was advanced in extenuation that he was placed at a disadvantage by lack of a pacemaker, and Carr had to abandon the "come-from-behind" tactics, which were employed so successfully last year. Alcides trainer, Captain Boyd-Rochfort, had "one of those weeks" with which trainers in all countries are only too familiar. Hieroglyph and Welsh Guard both performed disappointingly in the Two Thousand Guineas. The Queens Agreement again sustained a narrow defeat in the March Handicap, and the poor running of the stables two-year-olds suggested that his collection of juveniles is below its normal high standard. Sound Track Extends Streak The Duke of Norfolks two-year-old, Sound Track by Whistler, won his third race off the reel, paying the equivalent of 12 cents in the dollar, when beating two opponents for the Newmarket Two-Year- Old Plate. Easily the most impressive two-year-old winner, though, was the newcomer Running Blue, a filly by Blue Peter from a Hyperion mare. Jack Jarvis, who trains her, seems set for a big year with his youngsters, for another first-timer, the Pinza filly Lentolia, also created a favorable impression, by winning the Littleport Stakes by four lengths. At their annual general meeting, the Jockey Club to which J! J. Astor and Jocelyn Hambro were admitted as mem- bers passed a new rule relating to forfeits. These will now be made three days in ad-1 vance of the date of the race and not 10 days or more as hitherto. Owners who ac-ceptwith their horses but do not run them, - will incur a financial penalty comparing £ with the value of the race concerned. It ■* will become effective from August 7th of this year. Charlie Elliott, former trainer to Marcel ;j Boussac in France, saddled his first winner from his new training establishment in Newmarket, when Little Redskin by Luminary [_ won Saturdays May Maiden Stakes s at 20-1 with the books — and 55-1 on the [e tote.
