MAIN TOPIC TRIUMPHS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 253, 25 October 1943, Page 5

MAIN TOPIC TRIUMPHS

METROPOLITAN HANDICAP SYDNEY, October 24. The 1942 Australian Derby winner Main Topic won the Metropolitan Handicap at Randwlclc yesterday, beating this year's Derby winner, Moorland, and equalling the Australian record time of 2.-11 l for a mila and five furlongs. Main Topic and Moorland singled themselves out a furlong from home, and in a thrilling finish, Main Topic, desperately ridden, just worried Moorland out of first. Result:— METROPOLITAN HANDICAP of £4000, one mile .intl five furloiiES.—MAlN TOPIC, 8.13 (E. Bartlc), 1- MOORLAND," 7.8 (W. Cook), 2; EUREKA. 7.9 (11. Drake), 3. Twenty-four started. Half a licad; two lengths and a half. Time, 2AV/z. . JOCKEY IN CAlt SMASH WELLINGTON, this day. H. N. Wiggins, the leading jockey, who won the double on Glenfalloch and Beau Vaals at Trentham, was involved in an accident as he' returned to the city. The car in which he was travelling was struck by another vehicle and overturned in Post Office Square. Wiggins was cut about the face and on the legs by broken glass, but he escaped serious injury, and will' fulfil his second day engagements at Trentham. STOPPED QUICKLY Evidently Royal Heir has not yet recovered "from the setback he received on his trip to Auckland for the Great Northern Guineas. In the hack six at Mastcrlon he was prominent in front with Water Hound, and at the last furlong appeared to be going with something in reserve, but he then stopped m a stride. Royal Heir is a bold galloper, but up till the present he lacks solidity.