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On this day, 6th June in the year 1934, Maharaja Vijaysinhji of Rajpipla won the blue riband of the turf, the Epsom Derby of England. He wrote about the enthralling event in the Sporting Times a couple of months later

Excerpts from ‘A Maharaja’s Turf’ ….. 24 – Chapter 15 : ‘I didn’t think I would win the Derby – I knew’