The Aga Khan's pleasure in owning the frst real Triple Crown winner since 1903, will be mitigated by the Ymowledge that Fox who has played so large 'a part in Bahram's triumphs was deprived by an unfortunate accident in riding the winner of the: St. Leger on Wednesday. Yet in a "sense this eleventh-hour hitch added Yo. the dramatic colour of the race.
Bahram seems to have been on easy winner and he will attain a place among the heroes of the: turf, but it generally held that the three-year ids of 1935 have not been up to the standard of some of the best years. It is noteworthy that Bahram's time' was slower than that which enabled Windsor Lad to win the same race last_year, Incidentally the accident to Fox gave the mount to a jockey who has gallantly turned misfortune Into success. C. Smirke last year on Windsor Lad won the Derby and the St Leger and thereby regained in his profession a place which at one Ume he was in danger of losing completely. He now has enrolled his whame in another classic record and those who appreciate his fine ties asa horseman will be specially delighted in this further endorsement of his return to fortune's favour, even though at the expense of so compet-cent and esteemed a jockey as Freddy Fox.
On Wednesday it was confidently expected that the Aga Khan's colt Bahram would earn the honour of being the frst post-war holder of the Triple Crown, His nearest rival is Field Trial, Lord Astor's candidate who yan well to get third place in the Derby of which his sire, Felstead was a winner in 1928 at the long odds of 3 to 1. During the summer Field 'Trial developed considerably and it was thought that he might prove a really formidable challenger' to. the Derby winner, The recent epidemic of coughing, seems to have affected him more than it did Bahram who was reported to have been also lightly stricken, At all events that eloquent index, the betting table shows that Bahram is regarded a that" bookmaker's bogey—the caste fron certainty, But sometimes book makers have been magically saved from the workhouse by the intervention of the less favoured animal, Otherwise it would be a hard world for bookmakers and no-one wishes that—not even the ever-hopeful punter.
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