Evening star., 1938-03-25

kept the American horse close to the
pace from the start, had him among
the first three over the last half OF
the journey and then drove him to
the front in the last few yards after
Royal Danieli had faltered at the last
jump.
BattleShip. a 40-to-l shot made only
two mistakes The first was at the
canal turn, and the second on the
final jump. His fast finish, gained
from racing several years on the fiat.
made up for the last, however. He
took the lead for the first time on the
second trip over Beechers Brook, but
lost it again at the canal turn and
trailed from there until his great
stretch finish.
Time, 9 Minutes 20 Seconds.
In winning the purse of approxi-
mately $4,000, Battleship covered the
distance in 8 minutes % As seconds.
Mrs. Scott. wife of the movie actor,
Randolph Scott: a sister of William
Dupont, 1r, and owner of a large
estate at Montpelier, Va, was too eX-
cited to lead Battleship into the WIN
ner's circle She arrived at Aintree
only few hours before the start of
the race.
In scoring the victory. Battleship
paid 40 to l. Royal Danieli was held
at l8 to l and Workman at % to l.
James V. Ranks Cooleen, one of the
favOrites. was fourth: J. B. Shows
American owned Delachance fifth; E.
T. Hunts Red Knight, I'd, sixth:
Arthur Sainsbury's favored Blue Shirt,
eighth: Lord Derby's Underbid, ninth;
Ranks Bachelor Prince tenth; Mrs.
S. H. Creaghs Lough Cottage. eleventh,
and Mrs. J. de Selincourt's Provoca-
tive. twelfth.
Rock Lad. owned by H. r. Balm Of
Toronto. was seriously injured when
he fell, and was destroyed
Mrs Scott couldn't be found until
some one sighted her when the weigh
ing in was almost over. Then Hobbs
went over to her.
I'm very. very happy" she said as
she patted the gallant little Man O.
War offspring.
Young Hobbs. who was born at
Westbury. Long Island. where his
father for 20 years trained horses for
F. Ambrose Clark. said he thought I'VE
made only Two slight errors.
One was at the canal turn the
second time around, where lost bit
of ground. and maybe l took it little
too easy at the last jump. I didn't try
to push the horse. I wanted to hold
him back for the final run on the fat"
Bruce has been riding since he was
old enough to walk but did not be-
come a professional jockey until Is
months ago. He was not even slated
to ride Battleship but the youngsters
father changed his mind after Mrs.
Clark's Flying Minutes was scratched
Old timers couldn't recall any such
father-son double in the history of
the race.
Horse Real Champion"
Coming back to the stables to COL
lect his belongings after the crowd
had thipned out, young Hobbs said:
1T is an unbelievable feeling to win
this race. But I want to pay tribute
to this horse. He's small, very small
tabout 15.2 hands,. but he took those
big fences like real champion.
My two mistakes took a bit out of
RattLeShin hit I easpd him I'm a hit
hoping and believing he could make
it up on the fiat"
D. Moore, who rode Royal Danieli
said if there had been another fence.
I'm sure he would have won.
Il thought was ahead at the fin
ish," said Moore. but the judges can
see better than the jockey"
Mrs. Scott will sail for the United
States on the Queen Mary Wednesday.