Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 5574 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| THE ST LEGER | 1913 | 1913-09-10 |
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Details
Original Format: 35mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 2 mins 35 secs Credits: Debenhams and Co., York. Subject: Sport |
| Summary This is film of the St Leger flat race held at Doncaster in 1913, filmed by Debenhams and Co., York. It shows sections of the spectators, a start and end of the race, and the winner being led into the winner’s enclosure. |
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Description
This is film of the St Leger flat race held at Doncaster in 1913, filmed by Debenhams and Co., York. It shows sections of the spectators, a start and end of the race, and the winner being led into the winner’s enclosure.
Title – New Century Pictures, The St Leger, September 10th 1913.
Cine Film by Debenhams and Co., York
Smartly dressed race goers are ambling around the racecourse. One man with a cigar descends some metal stairs. The runners and riders are walked along the course, with...
This is film of the St Leger flat race held at Doncaster in 1913, filmed by Debenhams and Co., York. It shows sections of the spectators, a start and end of the race, and the winner being led into the winner’s enclosure.
Title – New Century Pictures, The St Leger, September 10th 1913.
Cine Film by Debenhams and Co., York
Smartly dressed race goers are ambling around the racecourse. One man with a cigar descends some metal stairs. The runners and riders are walked along the course, with a large crowd of spectators watching.
Intertitle – The Start
The runners line up on the course and are off.
Intertitle – The Finish
The race to the finishing line is shown. The scoreboard shows: 1. W S Higgs (10), 2. J Clark (5), 3. D Maker (12), 4. W Earl (8), 5. F Wootton (1).
Intertitle – Leading the winner.
The winning racehorse is escorted into the enclosure and the jockey dismounts... the horse, without any saddle, is shown off for the camera. Race-goers mill around and the film comes to an end.
Debenhams and Co., York.
Context
Doncaster racecourse September 1913, on the eve of the Great War, and with the tragic death of suffragette Emily Davison still hanging over horse racing, hosts the oldest of the five classic races. On one side, the wealthy in the proper dress code in the stands, on the other, the masses, in their own dress code, on the terraces. The St Leger gets off, and the winner crosses the finishing post and poses for the camera.
This film was made by filmmakers Debenhams & Co., established by...
Doncaster racecourse September 1913, on the eve of the Great War, and with the tragic death of suffragette Emily Davison still hanging over horse racing, hosts the oldest of the five classic races. On one side, the wealthy in the proper dress code in the stands, on the other, the masses, in their own dress code, on the terraces. The St Leger gets off, and the winner crosses the finishing post and poses for the camera.
This film was made by filmmakers Debenhams & Co., established by Ernest Symmons in York before moving to Beverley. The St Leger was first raced on the old course on Cantley Common, Doncaster, where it has, more or less, remained. Apparently in 1913 it was won by E Wheatley riding Night Hawk, not what is seen on the scoreboard in the film, which must have been for another race. Not long before this race, on 4 June 1913, suffragette Emily Davison was fatally injured at the Epsom racecourse during the Derby, under the hooves of the king's horse. Detailed analysis of film footage of the incident, digitised, has revealed that she was attempting to attach a scarf to the horse’s bridle, and not wishing to be killed. |
