The Archive · 1925

"KING'S CONGRATULATIONS TO MR.

MORRISS

Froxs Oun Own ConneseoNcent London, May 27.

Mr, Hy Ey Moreiss, the" owner of Manna, told'a "Daily Mail" reporter while h ing unsaddled:

"This is aivery great moment. toll my friends all slong that he would win afd yet T never expected J should feet ko bowled over with excitement wha ko did win. Tam and yot I am sure toll you. Tesicul see them let they wouldn't be.

"Lam proud of horse and of everybody euncerned. Tt 'a beat ful animal wonderfully trained made specially for Derby Day! Guaranteed for ever!"

Grey clouds hung over the crowdeddovens. The rain which began at dawn pattered endlessly down, falling on the massed ranks of motorcars which stood in wet battalions, falling on the policemen at the mud-cly eross-roads, falling on the hundreds of thousands of mackintoshed people who swarmed beside the course, falling on the shouting bookmakers, falling on the newly paint-grandstand.

'The Downs were a study in grey and green, with a splash of gold where the course had defied the Still the Derby Day throng' enthusiasm was not damp. One of the few men who did not wear a macintorh was an old follow with a white beard, who stood In the mud and sang in a qua-He walked away to tea ain't genua rain Solly Joel, oan breathless messen-He won lots of coppers ors hurried about for news of Another man "The King, wis had hoped so much stood in the midst of the crowd and for his ownihoree, wanted to coi played, "Take a pair of Sparkling gratulate hit. eyes," on a bugle, but the throng:

At last he was found. No other were more intent on spotting win-owner gave him a warmer handners than on taking eye shake than dll His Majesty.

People splashed about—all the Tt is a long time since the Derby thousands of them—with cheerful 8 attracted 20 much attention, grins. When one of them slipped vainly becagpso the result. was quite aver, somebody helped him up and gpen until fie very last- moment.) asked "him, "Going to swim "ome, There was popular favorite and! mate."

"Ax for the bookies it would very little interest was felt fo any take more than rain to subdue them, individual hdyse, but the small pun-'They shouted until their faces were ter felt that /ae had the opportunity purple. "You cannot trust the life.) Certainly the public but you can trust the old 1 attention to the confirm" they: yelled. even the "Times"

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