The Whitbread Trophy

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1560A

Date Released

30 Apr 1959

Date submitted

27 Apr 1959

Stories in this Issue:

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Whitbread Trophy. DESCRIPTION: The first Spring meeting of the year at Sandown Park, and the Whitbread Gold Trophy ready to be won. There is a field of twenty-three ‘chasers with three miles, five furlongs to go. It was won by Done Up, strongly ridden by Sprague. A great moment for his owner, Mr Baillie, the winner of that Gold Cup! SHOTLIST: Stock card key. GV stand. Crowds CU gold cup. GV paddock - horses being led. MS horses being led (2). MS tic-tack men. Closer same. Another (3). GV pan start. LS field over 1st jump. LS horses take jump. High angle pan race. LS horses take jump. Another same. LS horses take last jump. Another same. LS horses take last fence. High angle pan LS to closer ‘Done Up’ beats ‘Mandarin’. MS winning horse being led in. MS policeman takes away Gold Cup.

Local distribution only

Not shown in Scotland

Keywords

Sport; Horse racing; Economics; Business and commerce; Police

Locations

England

Card file number

77048

Credits:

Commentator: Geoffrey Sumner
Camera: Ken Taylor
Camera: Len Waldorf
Camera: Samuelson

Length of story (in feet)

137

Story extras:

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