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...Victor Sassoon, owner of Shanghai's ill-fated Hotel Cathay (see p. 14), he hoped to win this year's Derby with Sir Victor's Renardo, but finished in the ruck along with the favorite, the Marquis Evremond de St. Alary's French-bred Le Ksar.* But he showed his old touch on other occasions this season by winning the Oaks at Epsom Downs and the One Thousand Guineas at Newmarket with Sir Victor's Exhibitionist, the Irish Derby with Phideas. Jockey Donoghue's new job will not be training Sir Victor...
...Last week at A. S. Hewitt's breeding arm near White Post, Va., Le Ksar's famed sire, Ksar, died of an internal hemorrhage...
Most excited betters had put their money on Perifox (son of Gallant Fox), which William Woodward hoped would prove the second U. S.-bred horse to win the Derby, or Lord Astor's Cash Book or the French colt Le Ksar. Still confident was the round, brown Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 60,000,000 Moslems, that this year his one entry would outrun the pack to give him three Derby victories in a row. Queen Elizabeth, however, bet ?1 on Mid-Day Sun, quoted at 100-to-7. Mid-Day Sun's best previous performance had been...
Gallant Fox would have made more money than the world's greatest money- winner?Ksar, the French horse ($335,-340)?if he had not been beaten in the Travers. Jim Dandy, California outsider, at 100 to i, beat him that day on a sodden track at-Saratoga. Someone had had a hunch about Jim Dandy, someone had guessed what he could do, for his owner, young Chaffee Earl, had pointed him all season for the Travers, had hitched his luxurious horsecar to the end of a coast-to-coast express so that he would receive every comfort. Few believe...
...Ksar France...