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Derby-goers missed Epsom's flower-decked grandstands, the grey-toppered swells, fortunetelling gypsies and wigwagging ticktack men (scouts for bookies). But nothing was missing in the race itself. Favorite in the field of 21 three-year-olds was the Duke of Westminster's Lambert Simnel, winner of last spring's Two Thousand Guineas. Sentimental favorite was Fairy Prince, owned by Lieut. F. T. Williams, a war prisoner somewhere in Germany...
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...
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