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Show l he Solomons bet (500) goes to Pinza9 s corner Who will win todays Coronation Derby? Aureole for the Queen? Pinza tor Gordon Richards ? . . . Here's the latest from the course by The Innocent at Epsom nccNAnn hmi , . Li k II tl n II I EFSOM. Friday. STILL worried, eh, about that Derby certainty ? Then let us join Society in their strangest of racecourse race-course rites the interval parade from course to paddock and paddock to course again. These people should know a little something, yes ? TJunL- onH f n r t. h 1 h e V smaller : the cigars bieger Tneir owners trauvd them i.ne a battery of naval guns over I ne fence v.a.;..ng lor tne Qifen's horse to w,n and g.ve a nope for the morrow. The horses race bv in a drum-tire drum-tire of pounding hooves, and " Gav Time is unlucky. Up poos that, pointer In a cloud of blue smoke. Todav's 8 a.m. report? . . Gordon Richards, happy and confident when he brings P.nra magnificently round Tattenham. concludes : " He trudge in a restless ebb-and-flcrw. First to the paddock thev go to pick the winners ; then to the course to see them lose. Sad to relate this Inner Circle of racing, the initiates who own the horses, and for all I know taik with the horses and dine with the horses, seem to know-little know-little enough. Their noble brows are furrowed. One young man is overjoyed But one man speaks with clear voice. He is a voung man. and overjoved. Someone in that easy assurance of your true-born aristocrat has just prodded him from behind with an umbrella and said. " Congratulations." Con-gratulations." Lord Blandford has murmured languidly. " Well done, Porchy." This is the youthful Lord Porchester whose horse has Just won a race. Announces " Porchv." his face aglow with triumph : " I confidently select Pinza." Not so our young Blandford. He admits the sad truth. He doesn't know. " I'd like to see the Queen's horse win but I shouldn't think I'd have a bet." he savs. So now to the prettiest girl of the dav. a sparkling lass. Robina, otherwise Mrs. Michael Forrest, wife of the stud manager. Husband and wife both choose Pinza, too. The boxing man pays fivers And here, bless my soul. Is Jolly Jack th. boxing man. What does Solon oils say in all his wisdom? Wed, stap me. it's Pinza once more And just to nifke sure, a tidy little purse of Jack Solomons' mnnpv CrtCC) unA thev call it, was all r:gnt, aosolute.y grana. Will Sliikampur win ? Smirke rides him and susrees- " a grand each way chance." And the trainer is so sure As manv men today, a many opinions. ' Pomceiet thinks it mav be Nearula. which will be tr.e'd out tomorrow morivn?. . . But Johnnv Dines, the trainer, after riding Star of the Forest, returns exuberant. He throws a friendly joke at Gordon " Have a good look now. Gordon; it's the onlv chance you'll get." This Diiies devotion is too touching to ignore. Ann. rememberino what I saw in the crystal. I take my stand with Johnny Dines, and or my lucky star iomormw 1 choose: - - sf " - . . , ) STAR OF THE FOREST Flagstad sings her farewell Kirsten Flagstad said what was described as farewell to the stage last night in a performance of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the Mermaid Theatre. Royal Exchanee the 95th time she has sung Dido. Madame Flagstad. who has sung all the great . soprano roles in the opera houses of five continents, expects to retire to her native Norway. Mink raiders use battering ram Thieves who used a wooden battering ram burst open the doors of a fur shop In Knights-bridge Knights-bridge early yesterday and stole a mink cape and a mink stole worth 1,300. " white money " here when you pav it out in fivers Is going to Pinza's comer. Harry Peacock merely " hopes for the best " for Good Brandy ; that big-time fanner from Lincoln, Frank Dennis, wants Aureole to win. flanked a shade astern by Frank's Durham Castle. Today the crowds were |