'The uproar in the House of Commons, from this distance, appears susceptible to the, interpretation that that shrewd" and disarmingly unassuming National Liberal. Minister, Mr, Ernest Brown, has made 0 good Job of tackling' the exceedingly Awkward business of clearing up the dimeulties regarding the Public Assistance regulations. The Labour Opposition—and especially the extremist ections—have been banking on the Government's. presenting. them with useful argument. twas, Indeed, blandly hinted that Me. Brown had been given promotion to a Ministry which would spell disaster for' him, Now, judging from the realism of Sir John Simon's speech, It looks as it the luckless Minister had managed to eliminate from his Bill any material for accusing the Government of unsympathetic conduct in handling the problem. What consolation the "indomitable Clydesiders could have derived from the process of calling Sir John Simon names and thug enabling him og acting Leader of the House to move their suspen-lon, It must be left to a lively imagitation to discover. Generally the Opposition seem to have been deter~ mined in default of argument to make such a stir that electioneering en pital in due course can be acquired from-their proceedings. Mr. Brown probably is quite willing to let at that, of three colts two of which are fengeged in the great "race -for 1937 and none of them running at Sandown Park on Saturday. The three were: Lord Astor's Early Schoot (By Felstead-Quick Rise) in the Coventry Stakes, Lord Derby's Fair Copy (by Fairway-Composure) in. the Chesham Stakes and the Aga Khan's Lo Grand Due (by Blenheim Jo Douairiere) in the New Stakes. The winner of the Sandown Produce Stakes on Saturday, Full Sail, was
0 was the third, Goya It. Foray ran. unplaced in the Coventry Stakes and second to Lo Grand Due in the New Stakes, The Coventry Stakes forty years ago had a remarkable connec Yon with the Derby for on the list of winners are Ladas (1893) Persimmon (1895) and then successively. Rock Sand (902) St Arnaut (903) Cicero (1004), Since then the wirinee. of that race' has not been able to acquire premier honours as a three-year old, The New Stakes has a, better modern record for recent Derby winners on its panel have been Lamberg (1909) Craganour (1912) 'Mr, Jinks (4923) Blenheim (1929) Hyperion (4932)—the dates brackets here as elsewhere being those of the two-year-old race Earlier Derby winners of the New 'Stakes have been Melton, Donovan, Isinglass and Plying Fox.' The July Stakes which Foray won, with Full Sail third, can include in the panel of former winners. the following. who later won the Derby; Donovan, Cicero, Mr. Jinks. In spite of the comparatively poor Derby record of the Coventry Stakes winners in recent years, some critics seem to think that Early' School is one of the best two-year-olds, if not the best and that. Pascal's claims have also to be seriously taken into account, It is early yet to arrive at such conclusions for Some of the important two-year-old aces have yet to be run such as the Champagne Stakes, Middle Park Stakes, Criterion Stakes and Dew-burst Stakes. "Racegoers in Shanghai will naturally be interested Pascal's chance for that colt is a grandson of Manna, otherwise the Success of Early School might be regarded as proper compensation to Lord Astor for his miserably bad luck in being unable to run Rhodes Scholar in this year's Derby, when, fon the subsequent showing of form, that colt seems to be by far the best three-year-old of the present season and ought therefore to have broken, the spell which has given Lord, Astor several second places but never a first in the Derby.
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