Pasch. a} brown colt, by Blandford out of Pasco, has only run in two races, winning them both comfortbly. As a two-year-old, Pasch did not rut at all. This. says much for the belief by some racing authorities that a horse ultimately races better if it is kept off the course until it is three years old.
The Coventry Stakes, run over the mile-long Jubilee Course at. Kempton. was Pasch's first race. The favourite was Unbreakable, at 2-1, but Pasch, at 7-2, was ridden into the lead two furlongs out by Gordon Richards and went on to win easily.
Pasch started favourite at 5-2 for his second race, the Two Thousand Guineas. Again ridden by Gordon Richards, who is also riding him in the Derby, Pasch led almost through-Out to beat Scottish Union, Mirza LI, Portmarnock, Unbreakable and Penn: Foolish, As both the Guineas and tle Coventry Stakes are mile-long races, esch's ability to manage the adtional half-mile at Epsom must be
li taken on trust, but his breeding should ensure that he has the neces-opinion carries enormous weight arid he thinks Pasch is quite good enough to win the classic. Moreover, if the rain does not come before the race in: sufficient quantity to soften the sure face considerably, the firm going will suit Pasch more, perhaps, than any other horse in the race. He is light-actioned and rebounds almost capriviously from the bone-dry track.
The only adverse criticism that has been passed against Pasch is that, being still somewhat green,' he 15 inclined to wander. It was obvious. however, in both his races, that when this did happen, he responded very readily to the magic hands of Gordon Richards.
The champion jockey, incidentally. is very confident that there is nothing io beat Pasch. After the Guineas, Gordon Richards declared:
"He could have carried another 7 Ib, and still have won. He was so full of dash and energy that I allowed him to stride along for a while. Aji the time he was looking around him like a novice. He still ran distinctly en, and that is why, I never ceased riding him. He was an easy winner, and I really cannot see what can beat him in the Derby."
It is reported that Pasch is by no means the favourite at Marlborough, Wiltshire, where he is trained in Fred Darlings Beckhampton stables. "He's too much talked of" is the local opinion, Fred Darling. on the other hand, is quite confident. He has put Pasch m ihe box which accommodated Coronach and Manna, both Derby winners, while they were in training at Beck-hampton. "No horse gets that box s he deserves it" said Fred
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