DERBY, ST. LEGER AND ASCOT CUP 



Enough has surely been said to emphasise the 

 claim put forward on behalf of the great Doncastej* 

 event. ^ 



How the five races — the Two Thousand Guineas, 

 the One Thousand, the Derby, the Oaks and the 

 St. Le^er — came to be distinguished as " classics " 

 nobody seems to know. The title is universally 

 accepted, and the term " classic winner " has peculiar 

 significance, even though, as must inevitably have 

 happened, a few names occur to detract somewhat 

 from the brilliance of the list. But there is another 

 race which in reality ranks no whit behind the 

 classics ; indeed the table of winners may unquestion- 

 ably be described as unsurpassed, if it would be too 

 much to speak of it as unequalled, and the use of 

 the last word might be forcibly defended. Of 

 course I refer to " The Cup." So it is called. 

 To specify the "Ascot Cup" or the "Gold Cup" 



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