Winning names on the racecard - Sport Letter.
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12 June 2001
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English
Copyright Times Newspapers Ltd, 2001
From Mr David Heyman
Sir, You may be interested to learn the reason why the Henry II Stakes at Sandown was so named ("Life at the Races", June 1). I was Sandown Clerk of the Course in the 1960s and framed and named the programme for the newly acquired Whit meeting. I wanted to have as many lead-in races to Ascot as possible, a Gold Cup trial was desirable. I discovered that Henry II had founded a hospice on the site which is now Sandown Park racecourse. So Henry II it was.
Your conjectures about race naming were not entirely inaccurate, as in the same card I initiated the Westbury stakes (later renamed the Brigadier Gerard, I think), called after my son's prep school, and also the Temple Stakes, a trial for the Kings Stand at Ascot, named after his house at Stowe.
Yours faithfully,
DAVID HEYMAN,
Buzon 782,
Plaza Virgen Del Carmen 14B,
Moraira/Teulada 03724,
Spain.
(c) Times Newspapers Ltd, 2001.
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