The St Leger

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1424

Date Released

17 Sep 1956

Date submitted

13 Sep 1956

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The St Leger
2. 2Sailing Champions
3. 3Vienna Trade Fair
4. 4Royal Visitors in New York
5. 5Suez Incident
6. 6White City Athletics
7. *Lord Carnegie Weds

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The St Leger. DESCRIPTION: Doncaster was a big draw for the St Leger, the last of the Classics. Thousands saw the Queen walk along to the paddock. The race was won by the French colt Cambremer. SHOTLIST: TPS of crowds around the course. Shots of the Queen entering paddock and with her horse ‘High Veldt’. Views of the stands and horses at the start. Shots of racing, finish. Horses included:- ‘High Veldt’, ‘Pont Levis’ (the favourite), ‘Court Command’, ‘Talgo’, ‘Hornbeam’, ‘French Beige’ and Cambremer who was the winner, a French colt which was ridden by Fred Palmer.

Keywords

Royalty; Sport; Horse racing

Locations

Doncaster

Footage sources

Movietone

Card file number

68210

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

144

Story extras:

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