Word: hyperion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doncaster, England, the biggest crowd of the year (300,000) saw England's three-year-old champion, Lord Derby's Derby-winner Hyperion, win the St. Leger Stakes by three lengths, with the Aga Khan's Felicitation second. It was the 26th time a Derby winner had won the St. Leger. Hyperion's sire, Gainsborough...
King George had more than one reason for fêting the winner. He held a ticket on Hyperion in the sweepstakes of London's swank Maryborough Club. In Queens, N. Y. plump Telephone Operator Louise M. Popp. 27, won $118,500 with a 82 Irish sweepstakes ticket on Hyperion. John Byron, 73, Staten Island messenger, won $40,000 on Statesman...
...half-mile it runs uphill 100 feet till it reaches Tattenham Corner, slopes downhill to a level stretch, then rises at the finish. Tattenham Cor- ner, named after a manor house which mysteriously disappeared, is a dangerous hairpin turn with a sharp downdrop. At the start of the race, Hyperion's jockey, Tommy Weston, let his stablemate Thrapston take the lead. On Thrapston was Steve Donoghue, winner of six derbies, the oldtimer who rode Papyrus in his match race against Zev in the U. S. ten years ago. Donoghue's instructions were to win if he could...
Thrapston kept the lead, with Hyperion galloping two lengths behind, till the race rounded Tattenham Corner. There Thrapston lagged. Weston shouted to Donoghue to pull over. Instantly Hyperion shot ahead on the inside rail, with King Salmon pounding at his heels. Once he began to slow up, but at a single crack from the whip he raced away from the field, plunged over the line four lengths ahead of King Salmon, splitting two-fifths of a second off the Derby record. King Salmon, the entry of Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, finished second; Statesman, owned by ambitious Victor Emanuel, president...
...track ran rosy Lord Derby as the crowd cheered. He led Hyperion around the ring, then went to receive the congratulations of the King. Jockey Tommy Weston, bubbling with joy. cried jubilantly: "He's a jolly good horse and ran a jolly good race for a jolly good owner. I am the proudest jockey in the world...