WINDSOR LAD LANDS the LEGER in EFFORTLESS STYLE J^D
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16 THURSDAY. THE DAILY EXPRESS, September 13. 1934 TELEPHONES-CENTRAL 8000-PRIVATE EXCHANGE. WINDSOR LAD LANDS THE LEGER IN EFFORTLESS STYLE j^d Smirke Says He Could Have Won By Six Lengths—''Lazybones" Was Content With Two 1 jj^jl HOW THEY FINISHED SLEEPY AT THE BARRIER BUT Windsor Lad (4-9) ... C. Smirke 1 NEVER CAUSED ANXIETY Joe Tiberius (20-1) ... R. A. Jones 2 Lo Zingaro (100-9) Gdn. Richards 3 He Knew When By The Derby Form Patriot King (22-1) ... G. Bezant 4 He Had Done THE Confirmed To Won by 2 lengths, same SCOUT Enough A Pound "back-pedalled" quickly as they came into the straight, but ran on DONCASTER. Wednesday. again. "Only, however, at his own as go*"' ^ ' Polemarch and a few others stage an fllatnst one GEOFFREY THE THIRD UR horse "Lazybones" won the plodding pace," Fox commented, and unexpected transformation in the O 61. Leger oy two lengtnt lur.- Patriot King beat him on merit. straight. Not so. however, today. It my each-way saver. Tiberius, and Pern-man said Uiat Achtenau never was all so according to the Windsor GILBEY'S Lo Zingaro. a similar distance away gave him any hope, but he Jay up well Lad plans, but Smirke then made no Iqulle snWP and a lengcn in iront oi fai,riO for a bit. "Soft ground essential." bones about testing the speed of King and the plodding Umidwar, P.itriot King haa been In a morning Tiberius and going away from Lo who were only divided by a head. escapade on the Town Moor, for he Zingaro, Umidwar, Primero and '"Si' GOSSIP I know that In precise Doncastcr records broke away from his. lad. and galloped others. yoti will read of the last cla-ssU: win of nearly H mile on the racecourse before OncedurW Mr Martin FJ Benson's Windsor Lnd. but he was stopped by a spectator. Fred * * * Pratt, his trainer, pursued him on a had a striii DONCASTER. Wednesday. hl.s new owner stre-wcd to me thai he is MfRKE was never really anxious—now *• OUR horse, bought by Democracy for policeman's hack and brought him S hfi assured me of that!—but he T is a gorgeous day, and it goes £50.000. and his merit always made t-lear back unharmed. I brought his whip otit Just to demoii- . atteck. and without saying tliat a big crowd to a great 8.P. who hare been invited to Patriot King hnproved on that Irish •strate to the placid and gentle-hearted mere wn; I "Lazybones"—who could Ptill be an ideal has come lo see Windsor Lad win share our Joys hnd our gains." dead-heat with PrSinero and outpaced Autumn—who was nearly withdrawn, I trooper at the head of a ooliunn—that Mr. M. H. Benson leading in Windsor Lad. the Leger. Backers, though, have Charlie SmirKe. an Impetuous lad re SI. Legers have to be won. duced to the .soberncs.s of an Archer, a may add. owing to the hard ground. not had such a good start. Ray told me that he was wishing all And there was no looking round nor] Maher. and a Joe Childs in the moment „ents- "» of his greatest trlumnh. to'.d me that, I the time that .lomcbody would turn on fancy business while Windsor Lad was' mii.*;t call his mount "Lazybones." iJie speed for Primcro. " I did my best kept right on until the volume or towards thu It Is always :i delight- to nie to be able There was a moment, then when the cheering on "T'owd Moor" was the I said olmo' to write tlie words - winner trained by old explosive Charlie revealed itself, for roar of approval from a crowd tuliy brcakliiB P<"' Cannon" whether it l.s Tom, Noel or he burst out with "I'd have won by six COPYRIGHT SAFETY BET. satisfied with "Our horse." Crumpets May Solve IcngtlK 11 he'd only have stirred hlm-self Joe Lawson. as well an Jones, had Boxer Cannon. Ever .ilnce I can remember (.napped. « the name Cannon has been associated when 1 overhauled Tiberius nearly a wished that Tiberius could have had a stronger run race, but the Windsor Lad dozen tlmos with all that is best and cleanest on the quarter ol a mile from home. But he DONCASTER. know.s when he has done enough, and camp could havfl echoed the same desire. or Hap?ood Turf. Blackmail, who is one of tJie best lied the ball named horses in training, being by Black *ust wants to bn tucked nicely In h\s 3.,-i._OKKENORK (farh waj). There is something immensely satis "Portland" Problem ittlc bed and fiosc his eyes and say Sept. 13. 19.'14. THE SCOUT. when a goal Gauntlet out of Hetaliate. has Just won fying when the Derby winner conflrmsl iwenty to on for her popular and charming owner. Mr.?. Bye-bye' I" his excellence in the St. I.«ger. It was| Clayton. Blackmail is trained by Noel Uip same when the more spectacular Just one ; Cannon. and he was not disgraced, but speed is little Hyperion had done likewise last By BENDEX wit . It , .> .> "I Wish to make an amend to What Jones Thought not in the blcod." I gather from Ray. year, but somehow the public have made ninety mil however, that he might have been closer a special niche in Ihelr hearts for EVERYTHING Hurricane £ N the night before Blackmail ran at Lo Zingarosays the Scout. rriHE chorus ol most of the JorKevs was Windsor Lad. '• that caught if he had not had the Irish St:. Leger In firm going rc^d to hp all in Ws hTot O Ybrit. where she was well tancietl. I "He stayed all right." X that It was unp. of tiie hiwest run view next week. The bookmaking llrm which enables mc meath. , , dreamed that she won On the strength Sr. Legers of modern day.";, and actual to indulge In my luxurious honby had He has done well since Noltlnglim. The day's of my dream several friends backed her. time on the fastest going for years can Young " Lazybones" has happily, on IN HIS the other hand, that CIBRS gift of speed, artuallv laid 50—1 for the Derby and rielicve it or not. his staple dlci j ward star- 1 mentioned this drean. to Cannon yes really tell us little of the actuul pace. 66—1 for the St. Leger earlv In the year Hulme. F terday, and he said "Pernaps it was not when he wanis to u-ic It Just to ensure now augmfinted by a Ijottic o[ stout Bobb.v Jones certainly did not endorse victory, and stamina. against Windsor Lad. " And 1 never tricky, and w at York, but in Yorkshire that she won. hat dl.stance optimism of Srnirke. UP dreamed then I'd buy htm from 'Mr. FAVOUR day. ThlB fine old British bcveigpi tremendouR ; She runs tomorrow, and may do better docs not. think Windsor Lad made very • * « Pin' and win my first big race." Mr. much to Crumpets liking, so his one Don't ask , than at York, as that race was rim at a Doncaster much on him after aunerior speed had "Duggle" Benson—hatless and still only tells me. Rive you hal terrific pace." taken the 0—4 on favourite oast the half on earth—told mn as we toasted the wrong wl main Manton hope, and I am convinced Ti'mG For A Doze It is bound to he ii iremondo'is 07, Windsor Lad. Marsh, and Smlrkc. DONCASTER, Wednesday. but Ipi's hope Crumpets puts in a •'stoni' Maybe Malt that the t'erby form worked out practic and a wlzart ally to the poinid. I have often written E Stood up to the barrier before they ELL, the Leger is over, and flntFh! Sales started a-! though he really wanted possible pasf Even if I had bpen betting I could not fiat Tlberlu."; would not have been more H the right horse has won. have supported her today, as I tiiought Man two leng;h« behind Windsor Ijid to go to sleep. For some reason the ASKED him about Windsor Lad's W Taimirix t2.0i run really lasl lor Ui successor lo Irongrey was handicapped lo win. Iron I lat day If the fortune of the race had horses got to the post well over five I future. "One thing is sure, whether CongratuIation.s to all concerned. distance at York, and He gelA my m t grand haU-ha HE keen bidding which characterised been more on hi.s side. inlmhes too early. he runs or not next year—and that will My bigge.st note abotit the race con in an open race. Tlic Rous Plate SKO Crayslon ' Adept, who was a b;t excited, and Lo depend solely on how he fares, for I cerned Adept. If wo get soft ground next to concern Sevricr. Blue Chann. anii T the first day of the bloodstock sales Umidwar was. too. beaten onlv a h'tv Zingaro were actually the first, away, with never want to see him beaten again—he year I believe this horse will "be a smasher. pas Grass, sevritr modf; a promlrji GEOFFREY GILBEY'S at Doncasicr was continued ye.-^tprday. further then than perhaps he was when Windsor lad fifth, but when they really will not go to my Newmarket stud until debut when second to Bol).slelffh at Gw.