UNITED KINGDOM: HORSE RACING - Big crowd and thousands of cars at wartime race (1941)
BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
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Big crowd and thousands of cars at wartime race at Newmarket. Derby won by Owen?
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ENGLAND: Newmarket: Suffolk
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GV mass crowd and race course seen from grand stand. LV people walking through masses of cars. LV soldiers and civilians walking past motor coaches. LV people wheeling bikes. Gv pan mass of stationary cars either side of road. Lv man taking car numbers and checking to see if anyone has used supplementary petrol ration. SV man taking car numbers and checking to see if anyone has used supplementary petrol ration. Gv parade of horses and men and mass crowd. LV parade. LV start of race. SV pan of race number six leading, number eight second. GV pan finish of race crowd watching
Background: Big crowd and thousands of cars at wartime race at Newmarket. Derby won by Owen Tudor.
(The Derby was moved to Newmarket from 1940 to 1945 because of the Sec