The Archive · 1935

TRIPLE CROWN WON BY AGO KHAN'S BAHRAM

London, Sept. 11.

The St. Leger, which was run ioday at Doncaster over one mile, six (Sirett).

3—Lord Glanely's Buckleigh Wrage).

The betting was: 4/11, 100/6, 25/1. Eight ran," Won by five lengths, three Jengths separating second from third, Special place betting: Bah-ram, proportionate, Solar Ray 2/1, Buckleigh 4/1, Also rani Fairbairn (Gordon Richards), Field Trial (Dick), Flash Bye (Jones), Plassy (Perryman), Pry if (Wesion).

Bahram, by winning the St. Leger, not only retains his unbeaten certifi. cate, but becomes the first winner of the triple crown since Rock Sand won the Two Thousand Guineas at! Newmarket, the Derby at Epson, and the St, Leger at Doncaster, in 1903. Excluding the winners of the substitute races at Newmarket during the war, only ten other horses have ever won the triple crown.

Owing to an accident yesterday to Fox, the jockey who had been booked' by the Aga Khan to ride Bahram, Smirke "was given the mount. The mishap to Fox occurred In the Stand Selling Plate feared, fractured ribs, Bahram's time was 3 minutes 1-4/5 seconds, which is 1/5. second slower than Windsor Lads time last year jand that of Coronach in 1928—Reuter.

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