AUSTRALIAN TURF.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 175, 25 July 1936, Page 20

AUSTRALIAN TURF.

N.Z. HORSES BACKED.

A SPECTACULAR MOVE.

ORATORY, SILVER RING, CUDDLE

In a spectacular move at Melbourne: last Monday the New ZeaJunders, Oratory and Silver King and Cuddle and Silver Ring, were backed for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups in doubles for £50,000 each. The commission was Australian-wide, and, as a, result, Oratory was elevated to the position of Caulfield Cup favourite, and?. Silver Ring joined Gold Rod as favourite for the Melbourne Cup. Oratory has not yet raced in Australia. Cuddle is already in Sydney and Silver Ring and Oratory will ari;ive from New Zealand the first week' in August.

_If M. McCarten is available lie will ride Contact in either the Metropolitan or the Melbourne Cup, according to the part-owner-and trainer, D. Lewis. McCarten won the Sydney Cup on-Contact, but he usually, does the main riding for George Price, and the Price stable is particularly well represented, in both big ■ events. Egmont and Cuddle are possible mounts .for McCarten, arid until definite programmes are mapped out for the pair, McCarten may be unable to give Lewis a definite answer. Egmont is now a clear Metropolitan favourite, and he is .also among ih.e second picks for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. His . connections have, given no definite intimation of intentions, but early backers of Egmont for the A.J.C. race are almost assured of a start. Doubles starting with * Silver

f Jubilee and ending with Egmont, Young t Crusader and Salamander, were taken last c Monday for £2000, but it was only _ "speckers' "■ money. 1 / - ; JOCKEY'S BAD LUCK. B »

' INJURY STOPS HIM REACHING t CENTURY. * A. Knox, who, with 98 wins to his : credit, inclusive of three dead-heats, ' seemed certain to set a record by riding winners in a season on metropolitan registered tracks, was injured at Canter- ■ bury Park last Saturday afternoon. It 1 is- unlikely that he will ride again for some time. Knox went to the barrier for tHe first division of the Maiden Handicap on Artsman. The' field included several fractious horses. One of them All Brown unseated his rider J. Manning, while doing his preliminary, and caused considerable delay before he was captured. Then at the barrier two or three of the starters, including Our Promise, caused the field to be disorganised on many occasions. Our Promise was seen to lash,9ut from time to time. After some jostling Knox drew out of. the line and collapsedin the saddle; . The clerk of the course, Mr. J. TC Luckey, was nearby and prevented Knox frdm falling to the ground, Ambulance officials took the injured' rider, to the casualty' room. Knox fractured a small bone above the left ankle. He was taken to a private hospital to have the leg set and expect 6 to return home in a few days. Artsman was brought to the enclosure'! and J. Donkin was secured as his rider: ~ .He finished second, the race going tq" Crunatus. 'j BOBBY LEWIS. A., if - RIDES WINNER IT 57 YEARS. .The veteran rider D. Lewis, was given a as -he returned"to scale after having won the Malviria Welter, on Lilirene at Caulfield last Saturday. Lewis is' 57 years , of 'age: \ This was the 'first winner ridden by Lewis since he was successful on Nappatara'at Moonee Valley in September, 1933, but since then he accepted' few mounts'.' Recently Lewis has been riding Lilirene for his sister Dr. Jean Rountree, of Queensland. In wining he proved that he had not lost any of his skill. A NEW RECORD. • . : •• • THE HIGH JUMP. * (Received 12 noon.) BRISBANE, this day. 1 A new Australian high jump record was 1 established at Cairns, when two horses ' named Lookout and Euchre cleared Bft 1 l%in. ~ The previous record was held by Cameo, this horse jumping Bft lin at the Inverell - iooq W ' ™, ew South Wales, on March 2, ; The world's record is credited to . Heatherbloom, who jumped Bft 2in in America in 1906. f HIS TURN IS DUE. ' Nothing of a serious nature has been ! required of Horowhenua since he returned < from Irentham. Still, H. Rama-is giving i the chestnut gelding sufficient work to i keep his condition right, and he will be < ready to race as soon, as needed. It is \ some time since Horowhenua reached the ' winning list, though he ran a great race < to get third in the Winter Oats at Trent- i ham. On that form he should earn some ( stake money before the tracks become 11 hard again. . 11