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...threemile, six-furlong race at Sandown Park near London, Queen Elizabeth's five-year-old steeplechaser Manicou romped in by six lengths to win the $1,120 purse. The Queen stepped beaming into the winner's circle, patted her horse, gave a well-done to jockey and trainer. All in all, she appeared to have recovered from the blow of last fortnight, when her other steeplechaser, Monaveen, broke his leg in a race and had to be destroyed...
...Inglewood, Calif., Mrs. Charles S. Howard's Noor, in a tune-up for this week's $100,000 Hollywood Gold Cup, over the field in track record time (1:48) for the mile-and-a-furlong at Hollywood Park...
Swollen Waters. The change had no more effect on racing conditions. The night before the race, a 5-in. downpour started flash floods on the tributary Muskingum which flows into the course a furlong below the scheduled starting line. By race time, 60-ft. logs and huge masses of debris were sweeping down the Muskingum and onto the course. Even before the downpour struck, Ulbrickson, whose Washington crew had drawn an inside lane, complained that the Muskingum flow "hits you broadside like the wash from a big boat...
...Kentucky Derby, was winning Florida's Flamingo Stakes in March, Mr. Trouble was leading a more leisurely life in South Carolina. Mr. Trouble, a 40-1 shot in the winter books, made his three-year-old debut in mid-April, ran a strong fourth in a six-furlong race. A fortnight ago (TIME, May 1), he ran second to the current Derby favorite, Your Host, in a race in which the California-bred winner set a new track record for seven furlongs. Last week Trainer Veitch gave Mr. Trouble his final tune-up in competition, sent...
Your Host's demonstration was short and to the point. He got off first in a field of nine, stayed in front all the way, won by 6½ lengths. His time for the seven-furlong dash: 1:22.4, a new track record. In fourth place (after C. V. Whitney's Mr. Trouble and Calumet's Theory), and eleven lengths behind the winner: Oil Capitol...