RAPID RISE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 269, 12 November 1937, Page 14

RAPID RISE.

THREE ON END.

MOHICAN GREAT SPRINTER

SUPPORTER WINS £10,000.

To come from a suburban novice performer to he one of the beat sprinters in Australia within a few months is the record of Mohican, who accounted for the Cantala Stakes and the Yan Yean Stakes at the recent Melbourne Cup meeting, making his tally three wins jn his last three st«rts.

His trainer. C. A. Russell. settled in Sydney a few yean# ago, and has had a remarkable record with cast-offs from other stables. Caravel Boy was one of his first horses to show improvement, and Russell developed him into one of •Sydney's best jumpers. Then followed Ihe Genius. He was an outlaw until Russell took him over, but he quietened him down, and he has won races on the flat and over hurdles, while he was third in «the last Grand National Hurdles to Poolev Bridge and Full Charge. Sir Walter and Diatter are others. The latter won at Ascot, Melbourne, recently. Mr. Spencer Vaughan, who is at the head of the Australian family which is entitled to £000,000 from the estate of the late Lady Houston, has been backing winners in wholesale fashion in Victoria this spring. He placed a bipr commission on Mohican in each of his last three starts, and won £10.000. Mr. Vaughan also won over £5000 from The Trump's success. 1