This year, for the first time, a running commentary on the race for the Cesarewitch 'Stakes is to be broadcast by the BBC from its' Home and Empire stations. Two well-known experts on racing, Geoffrey and Quintin Gilbey, who are brothers in fact as well as in vocation, will contribute to the description from Newmarket that listeners will hear.
Instituted at Newmarket in 1839, the Cesarewitch is run over a course of two and a half miles. It owes its unusual name to the State visit to England of Alexander LI of Russia, in 1839. Alexander was then heir-apparent to the Russian throne, and as such was known as the Cesarewitch, or, more commonly, Tserarevitch. The commentary should be picked up in Shanghai from 23.10 o'clock to-night over Transmission 3, and will be repeated in Transmission 1 at 16.05 o'clock.
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