A commentary on- the race by Raymond Glendenning , with Wilfrid Taylor as race reader at the grand stand, and J. Lawson Topham from a point down the course
This is a substitute Derby, of course, without the glamour of the peacetime Epsom race, but thousands of men and women in the Forces and in munition factories and in offices and on the land will be waiting to know the name of the best of this season's three-year-olds over 1 1/2 miles. Only entire colts and fillies are eligible- to run ; the race, due to start at 2 p.m., will produce this year a very large field and is generally considered very open.
Tomorrow the fourth of the nve classics; the Oaks, confined to three-year-old fillies, will be run at 2 p,m. and broadcast.