THE CAULFIELD STAKES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 250, 21 October 1891, Page 3

THE CAULFIELD STAKES.

For the Caulfield Stakes there was sufficient material to make a great race (says a Melbourne paper), but the presence of some phenomenally good horses, such a3 Marvel, Bungebah, and Megaphone, in contests of that kind, has iba drawbacks, for almost the greatest misfortune that could possibly overtake some of the younger handicap horses would be their defeat of such performers as Marvel or Bungebah at weight-for-age. Of course the pair named were selected as favourites—at first Marvel, then Bungebah, and then Marvel again ; while Megaphone was the only one of the others that was backed for any money. During the running it looked a certainty for Bungebah, while Marvel was so far in the rear that 10 to 1 was offered against his chance ; bub at the finish he gob a clear run from jusb below the distance, and, cubbing his field down wibhabrillianb dash, beab Bungebah by a lengbh, with Dillon, half a length away, third. The race proved, as was anticipated, a real good one, and Burlesque, Megaphone, Magic Circle, Bungebah, Dillon, and The Rebel each showed such form as to warrant the belief that they will be heard of again before the Bpring campaign ia over. Lord Hopetoun, Enuc, Malvolio, Whimbrel and Gresford were not conspicuous ; while Lyndhurst, Tarcoola, Gnaroo, and Tirailleur each ran rather badly.