Opera Eve Wins the Champions for Second Time Running: America Cup Won by Sub-ribbon Tt was a day of shocks at the Shanghai Race Club Monday (May 7), and one of. the greatest of them—at least judged by the pari-mutuel dividends—was the success of Worplesdon in the Derby, with White Viceroy filling third, te pair separated by the second favourite, Rochester.
"An earlier shock than that of the classic was the weather, Thinking still of Saturday's rain and chilly wind, visitors came in anything but summer garb and found the weather anything but sulteble to what they jete wearing. Cool corners were at premium, but it was noted with pleasure that two days of dry weather had put the course back into fast racing condition, The Derby To return to the Derby. Twenty starters were saddled out of sixty entries, making a bigger field than is customary, and on the whole a far more level field than usually is seen.
The time was very fast, being only 8 2/5 sec, over the record held by three such good ones as Beaconsfield, Castlewood, and Busy Bee, By quarters It was:—32, 1.05.1, 1.384, 2114, 2424, 3.19.3. Tt was 'a high: Iy_ popular victory, being the first Nelassic" success for either the owner (Mr. A. 8, Henchman) or the Jockey, both of whom rank high in the estimation of all regular racegoers, Opera Eve's Failure Opera Eve went out an apparent certainty to "put the handsome! America Cup in the permanent possession of Sir Victor Sassoon, Fo: that they have not to put up another trophy in these times of sore @epression, the Smerican the Race Club have to W. Sutterle, jun. He ponies out in a field of eight and Must have given instructions for all go full ok all the way, for tha: Is what they did, and Opera Eve did not like it.
For the Fest of the card, it was a riot of outsiders. palling condition, the mud being the Champions field, for several owners argued that, with Welcome Mom "unft'to run, and Opera Eve supposedly unreliable, on such a course any pony who could stay should have a chance of into a place—and possibly the frst. So fourteen, instead of the seven, and possibly nine, of those considered the evening before, were saddled, and they were a curious collection of lassie ponies, griffins, sub-griffins, and moderate" class animals. No more than four or five really could be considered Champions possibles a reasonable course, and no more than the same number ran like such, even on the course as it was. Tt was good proof of how dificult it is to qualify anything approaching the "Eve" or "Morn" types wth classifcations and racing programmes as they are.
Crimson Morn made his effort at the right time, and on the driest part of the course, but he was not up to it. Once Castle-ribbon and Opera Eve were really let out, the race was favor so far as the rest were concerned, for the two drew well away and fought it out uninterrupted. It was Opera Eve's gallant final burst that turned the trick and gave him 2 well-deserved and highly popular victory, as was shown by the vigorous cheering which rewarded a good and plucky pony and a determined and capable' jockey. The second and third also bad their share of it.
"The race, necessarily slow, was timed "at—302, 1.08.1, 1283, 2132, 247.
"Gimerack Dinner"
The Shanghai Spring Race Meeting wound up on Saturday with a card that provided far more interesting racing than that either of Champions Day of the one before it. Prior to the racing there was the customary Stewards tifin—an occasion which stil
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