Baile$'s brown colt, Golden Sovereign, by Monarch out of Fleche door Il, did not run this year until the Newmarket but his fine victory in that race sent his Derby prospects soaring Whereas the odds against him on May 5 were 100-6, after) his Newmarket success, they shortened.
After passing the Bushes in the Newmarket Stakes. Golden Sovereigit swept easily past. Greenwich and Malabar, both Derby entrants, who took second and third place respectively.
Last year, &s a two-year-old, Golden Sovereign ran six times, gaining two wins, two seconds and two thirds Tommy Weston rode him to victory in thesMaiden Plate at Kempton Park and the Gimerack Stakes at York, in the latter beating Tahir and True Mate. He was third to Portmarnock and Mirza Il in the, Champagne Stakes, Doncaster.
Harry Cottrill his trainer, jubilant at Golden Sovereign's cess at Newmarket and cabled the news at once to Sir Abe Bailey who. having had both legs amputated within a year, is now back in Eng-lend for the Derby.
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