CITY TATTERSALL’S CLUB

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25936, 17 October 1949, Page 5

CITY TATTERSALL’S CLUB

AQUA REGIS WINS DOUBLE

(Rec. 7.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 16. In squally conditions. Snowstream beat Faraway in the City Tattersall’s Gold Cup at Randwick. The lightly-weighted Wiranya made up much ground to be placed third. Snowstream was handy all through the race, and won so convincingly that a Melbourne Cup start is being recommended.

The three-year-old. Aqua Regis, registered a rare double when he won the First Club Welter and George Herdsman Stakes within 70 minutes. He incurred a 711? penalty for his first win. Veteran racing men have to go back 51 years to find a precedent at Randwick for the Aqua Regis feat. One of the best remembered doubles was Carbine's All-Aged Stakes and Cumberland Stakes on the same day of the autumn meeting in 1891. Results:— CITY TATTERSALHS GOLD CUP, Of £l2OO. One mile and a half. SNOWSTREAM 8-12 .. .. Doon 1 Faraway 7-10 .. .. Selkrig 2 Wairanya 7-5 .. .. Podmore 3 There were 11 starters. Length and three-quarters; two lengths and a half. Time. 2m in 31|sec. FIRST CLUB WELTER, Of £7OO. Seven furlongs. AQUA REGIS 9-2 .. .. Moore 1 Farhad 8-12 .. .. .. Hill 2 Jannock 8-0 .. .. Faggotter 3 There were 12 starters. Three lengths; length and a half. Time, Imin 25Jsec. GEORGE HERDSMAN STAKES, Of £BOO. Six furlongs. AQUA REGIS 7-13 • .. Podmore 1 Heroic Sovereign 9-4 .. .. Moore 2 Bugymun 6-12 .. .. Moon 3 There were six starters.

Two lengths and a half; four lengths. Time, Imin 12sec.