A LUCKY CHESTER CUP WINNER.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 46, 23 February 1901, Page 5 (Supplement)

A LUCKY CHESTER CUP WINNER.

Dal by was undoubtedly lucky in winning the lirst of his two Chester Cups. After a tremendous race, the horse—who as a four-year-old carried only Ost 81b—beat Buckfoot a neck, and gained close on £(iO,OOO for his party, they having carefully "readled" him for the Itoodee event, and calculated ho had something near a stone in hnhd. The second was also backed for a lot of money, which would have been landed but for an unfortunate contretemps that occurred at Wai-wick. In the Wflloughby Cup Mr Asplnall ran both Biiekfoot and Sinntou, backing the latter for a thousand pciinds, while the other wns simply out for the purpose of giving the commissioner a chance to get the money on for the Chester Cup. For the "stumer" a fashionable jockey was engaged, but lie was not given any orders, as his mount had been taken well care of beforehand; and it was, a dreadful shock to his party wben tin.1 stable companions were seen to be racing against each ether, Worse was to conic, however, for the superior jockeyship of IJuckfoot's rider told the usual .tale, and ho got home from Htanton by a head, thus upsetting the contemplated coup, besides Incurring a 51b penalty for the Chester Cup. But for the tactics adopted by his connections, Buckfoot must have beaten Dalby, and won the £40,000 for which he was backed.