. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. September 22,1900] &bij& feeder aaC Qp&xx&tamu. The Epsom Race Course. Barns the Triple-Orown. Diamond Jubilee won the St. Lseer on September 12th, aod has thus carried off three of the principal events of the English tarf this year—the Derby, Two Thousand Guineas and St. Leger. When Colonel St. Leger, in 1774, established the great race namedjafter him, which was run Sept. 12th for ihe one hundred and twenty-fifth time, he unwittingly started a new era in racing. Previously the only fixed events were the King's plates, of a hundred guineas each
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. September 22,1900] &bij& feeder aaC Qp&xx&tamu. The Epsom Race Course. Barns the Triple-Orown. Diamond Jubilee won the St. Lseer on September 12th, aod has thus carried off three of the principal events of the English tarf this year—the Derby, Two Thousand Guineas and St. Leger. When Colonel St. Leger, in 1774, established the great race namedjafter him, which was run Sept. 12th for ihe one hundred and twenty-fifth time, he unwittingly started a new era in racing. Previously the only fixed events were the King's plates, of a hundred guineas each, granted from the privy purse to twenty-four favored localities. All the races beyond these were matches or impromptu sweepstaEces got up on the spur of the moment. But the colonel's plan of entering horses as yearlings for races to be run on a fixed date, when they were two or three years old, rapidly grew iu favor, and for over fifty years, until handicaps became in vogue, formed the bulk of the programs at all important English meetings. The first St. Leger only attracted six entries, five of which went to the post. The initial race fell not to its originators, but to Lord Rockingham. The event still grew in favor, though the conditions, $25 for each entry, run or not, with- out any added money, do not now seem very attractive. Still they must be popular with English owners, for the race has several times exceeded the Derby in value, and for the last forty years has seldom been worth less than $25,000. This year there wero 230 entries, four of which were void in consequence of the death of the Duke of Westminster. The Duke of Portland had eight nominations, but unfortunately his Oaks winner, La Roche, was not among them. This robbed the race of its main attraction, which is the meeting of the winners of the Derby and Oaks. The St. Leger course, the exact distance of which is one mile six furlongs 132 yards, is laid out on Doncaster Moor, in Yorkshire, 140 miles from Londo
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