AUSTRALIAN RACING

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25870, 1 August 1949, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN RACING

FOXZAMI WINS CUP AT SYDNEY (N.Z. Press Association— Copyright) CRec. 8.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 31. After leading early and being overtaken by Regal Praise, the former New Zealand horse, Foxzami, came again to win the Sydney Turf Club Cup at Canterbury yesterday. Though Regal Praise passed Foxzami at the half-mile post, he was not allowed to settle down in fourth or fifth position, as there was no obvious pacemaker. Closely trailed by Hurry Up, Foxzami went to the front again, and in a hard finish fought off Hurry As winner of a prize worth £4183, Foxzami is liable to a rehandicap of up to 101 b in the Melbourne Cup, where he already has Bst 81b. The New Zealand horse Brigodoon scored convincingly in the three and four-year-old handicap by hanging on to Le Petit Due and then running away from him in the final challenge. Results were:—

THREE AND FOUR-YEAR-OLD HANDICAP BRIGODOON 7-10 .. Sellwood 1 Le Petit Due 7-3 .. •• Carter 2 Parrakoola 8-7 .. .. Thompson 3 Nine started. L Three-quarters of a length; samfe. Time, Imin 56Jsec. SYDNEY TURF CLUB CUP FOXZAMI S-5 .. .. Fellows 1 Hurry Up 7-9 .. .. Sellwood 2 Anthelion 8-2 .. .. Moore 3 Sixteen started. A head; four lengths. Tifne, 2min 43sec. MOONEE VALLEY RESULTS (Rec. 8.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, July 31. The result of the Mia Mia Hurdles, at Moonee Valley was:— „ „ . LATANI 12-5 .. .. Hall 1 Friar of Thrace 9-2 .. .. Sellars 2 Full Moon 9-6 .. .. .. Moon 3 Fifteen started. Three lengths; three and a half lengths. Time, 3min 57Jsec. HISKENS STEEPLECHASE, WAR LOAN 9-7 .. .. Watts 1 The Feline 10-12 .. .. Sellars 2 Paraphrase 9-7 .. •. Smith 3 Fourteen started. Three lengths: three-quarters of a length. Time, 4min