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Last week, cricket matches were going full blast on the hallowed grounds at Lord's-the Marylebone Club playing teams from the Army, R.A.F., the Fire Brigade, etc. And at Newmarket, 70 miles from London, 50,000 Britons, disregarding the Government's "stay put" order, swarmed together for the second wartime running of the classic Derby-normally held at Epsom Downs, nearer London...
When the front runners thundered over the hill into the homestretch (Newmarket's course is dog-legged, not oval, up-&-down, not flat), railbirds saw no Lambert Simnel, no Fairy Prince. In front was Owen Tudor, a belittled 25-to-1 shot, owned by Mrs. Macdonald-Buchanan. Coming from behind, the bay son of the great Hyperion (1933 Derby winner) had zoomed past the field like a Spitfire, finished a length and a half ahead of Morogoro, owned by the Maharani Saheb of Kolhapur...
Owen Tudor's time for the 1½ miles: 2 min. 33 sec., four-fifths of a second faster than the established Derby record. But because it was made at Newmarket instead of Epsom Downs (a horseshoe course), Owen Tudor's time will not be listed as a Derby record...
Long Island's Belmont Park, long known as the Newmarket of America, last week tried to become the Longchamps of America too. As an accessory to the $5,000 Fashion Stakes (opening-day feature for two-year-old fillies), President Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt set up a runway on a balcony café overlooking the paddock, got ten Manhattan smartshops to send clotheshorses to parade between races...
CONCORD, N. H.-Among recent developments noted by the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission are the building of new ski facilities at Warner and at Newmarket...