. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. September 14, 19011 the gveeviev unb ^pancisnttitt HIDALGO'S GOSSIP * * ' SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. Geneva, Aug. 26, 1901. The Doncaster St. Leger, which is to be run over the Town Moor on the 11th of September, now looks to be a very open race. The horses most talked of when I left LondoD, were W. Whitney's colt Volo- dyovski, winner of the Derby; Sir Blundell Maples' Lord Bobs; Lord Roseberg's Epsom Lad, and the Duke of Portland's William III., who was third in the Derby and who beat Volodyovski for the Lennox Stakes at Hurst Park on Saturday last. Epsom Lad lo
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. September 14, 19011 the gveeviev unb ^pancisnttitt HIDALGO'S GOSSIP * * ' SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. Geneva, Aug. 26, 1901. The Doncaster St. Leger, which is to be run over the Town Moor on the 11th of September, now looks to be a very open race. The horses most talked of when I left LondoD, were W. Whitney's colt Volo- dyovski, winner of the Derby; Sir Blundell Maples' Lord Bobs; Lord Roseberg's Epsom Lad, and the Duke of Portland's William III., who was third in the Derby and who beat Volodyovski for the Lennox Stakes at Hurst Park on Saturday last. Epsom Lad looks well on paper but they claim he was "all out" in the race in which he beat the Derby winner and there are plenty of those who will willingly bet on his falling behind the Duke's colt, who is one of the persevering sort. Lord Bobs won a $10,000 stake at Redcar but he was con- ceding 14 lbs. to the second horse, yet so confident were the bookies of his ability to bring home the goods that they laid 6 to 1 on him, in the full belief that he had nothing whatever to beat. The night before I left London, I was enjoying a quite pipe in the smoking room of the Victoria Hotel in Charing Cross, and near me were two English gentlemen, sipping black coffee and discussing the merits of the several Leger candidates. One of them seemed to think that there was a very inferior lot of three year olds out this year and even went so far as to express the belief that had Mr. Lorillard's Caiman beenfoaled in 1S9Sinstead of 1897the "ti'iplecrown" of England would have been won by a gelding. The other gentleman did not exactly agree with him but conceded that the three year olds of this season be- longed to the class of Sir Bevys, Kingcraft and George Frederick, rather than to that which embraced such cracks as Ormonde, Galopin, Cremorneand the Flying Dutchman. There are Derby winners and Derby winners. My own idea is to wait for the Great Yorkshire Stake which will be run for
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