Chesterfield. Stakes; he won the Coventry Stakes at Ascot; and the Lavant Stakes at Goodwood. He was second in the Doncaster Champagneq Stakes and the Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket, ahir rah six times last year, winning three times, finishing second twice and unplaced once. He won the Warwickshire Breeders' Foal Plate at Birmingham, the Chesham Stakes at Ascot and the Ham (Produce) Stakes at Goodwood.
This year Mirza LI won the Green-ham Plate at Newbury and finished third in the Two Thousand /Guineas. Tahir was third in the Coventry Stakes at Kempton and nowhere in the Guineas, Mirza LI was sired by Blenheim, and Tahir was sired by Tetratema This consideration, along with the very fact that the Aga Khan owns the horses and Frank Butters trains them, should make both of them potential winners or, at least, can-Gidates for the subordinate places. It would cause much surprise, how: fever, if any were paced in the Derby.
His Majesty's Horse The King has one horse entered for the Derby this year, Licence, trained by W. Jarvis. It is not expected to have any success, Licence, a chestnut colt bly Foxlaw out of Wireless, raced once last year, coming nowhere in he Foxhall Stake" at Newmarket, he finished a not very convincing second to Flyon, who is also engaged in the Derby.
French Challengers Bois Roussel, who was retently sold by M. Leon Velterra to a patron of Fred Darling's stable, understood to be the Hon. P. R. L. Beatty, is the most promising of the French chal-longers By the famous French sire, Vatout, cut of Plucky Liege, Bois Roussel won the important Prix de Juigne at Longchamps over a mile and three furlongs, a strong recommendation for the Derby.
Malabar is ninth in the betting for the Derby. He-did not run last year. This year, he has had three races, finishing second to Chatsworth in the Blue Riband Trial Stakes at Epsom. third in the Newmarket Stakes and viplaced in the Spring Maiden Plate Newbury.
Cave Manj Lord Astor's brown colt, trained by Lawson at Mouton, ren very well for six furlongs in the Guineas but, after that, fell away to finish nowhere.
In the Chester Vase, however, over a distance that is a good test for the Derby, he took the lead about four
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