'The reason Lady Zia Wernher's much fancied colt for the St. Leger, Precipitation. was scratched a fow days before the race has been solved with the arrival of Home newspapers, On Soplember 3, six days before the Face took place' at Doncaster, an announcement was made that it was feared Precipitation, the third favourite, was one of the latest victims of heel bug. The colt appeared the day before the announcement was made with a bandaged foreleg. It was decided to give him a trial but his jockey was unable to bestir him out of a labouring gallop. Mr. 'M. Woodward's Boswell, the subse-Quent winner of the race, was out at the same time and simply walked away from Precipitation, Home papers of the same date also. indicated that Boswell had returned to form which goes to show the disadvantage at which Shanghai backers stand. The latest belting *prices are the sole reflex of form. In the case of Pre-capitation, some backers in Shanghai Laced their bets a few days Before the race, only to find that the colt Was scratched. Although Lord. Astor's Rhodes Scholar was the favourite, the opinion was freely ex= pressed by racing correspondents that hard ground would prove the colt's undoing. The Aga Khan's Mahmoud, who finished "third, was strongly fancied, and Mr. A. G. Smith's Fearless Fox, who was second, about whom litle was known in Shanghai, was mentioned as an. animal plenty of reserve, a much needed asset for the St. Leger, which is the longest of the three classics. Un-Coubtedly the Shanghai backer placer his bets somewhat in the dark. for children by his invention of that foecinating. toy constructional ovtit Known an the afeccano, Ae, Hornby died In Liverpoat, his birthplace.
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