Knows that during the war a "sub stitute" race was run at that second-rate place known as Newmarket, but hho refuses very properly to regard that arrangement as anything but the Inevitable outcome of the horrora of war. He will dum from. "Punch" with disgust and devote himself to the study of the form-book. 'There he will be perplexed for. this' year the Derby seems to offer more than the usual variety of choices. The winner of the Free Handicap Stakes and Two Thousand Guinens, Pay Up, Is new closely rivalled by his stable. companion Rhodes Scholar who wa 2 good second in the Nonsuch, Plate at Bpsom and was fourth, also shaping well, in the Two Thousand, Then there 1s the winner of the Non-such Plate, Taj Akbar, who has dis. placed Bala Hissar, (6th in the Craven Stakes) end the disappointing Miahmoud (second in the Two Thousand and before that unplaced in the Gfeenham Plate) as the best of the Aga Khan's trio, Noble King, the Greenham Plate winner Is not une favourably regarded, nor is Thanker-ton, Manna's son, on account of his success in securing third place in the Two. Thousand. Finally mention should be made of Raeburn, the winner of the Column Produce Stakes "when Boswell" ran fourth—of Monument who won the Craven, Stokes, with St, Magnus second and Wyndham fourth and of Convert who beat Taj Akbar Into second place by" winning the Coventry "Stakes, That is the puzzle and, whatever the Queen Mary may do,'it is a pretty tone for honest Facegoors.
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