The stage was then set, in the 51st running of the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes, for a duel at Ascot on Saturday, July 28, between Europe's
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In 1907 the Epsom gallery was horrified to see an Irish
owned, Irish trained (if Berkshire bred) horse, Orby, storm to victory at 100/6
in the most prestigious classic race for three-year-olds in the world, the
Epsom Derby. The reaction of the top hat and tails aristocracy was to leave the
parade ring for the presentation. “It’s enough to make one’s hair stand on
end. How absolutely devastating that Britain’s blue riband race has been won by
a peasant from Eire” snorted some Lord or another. Nor was the owner, Ted
“Boss” Croker, received by the King. When news of the Derby victory