CAULFIELD CUP WINNER

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25936, 17 October 1949, Page 6

CAULFIELD CUP WINNER

—«— RICCARTON APPRENTICE' SUCCESS Noel Eastwood, who rode Lii.ck) winner of the Caulfield Cup. an 1 jrday. is the 19-year-old son .of J. G. Humphries, wife of the Hi’,o lon trainer, and the late Mr A. “.h Eastwood, one of the outltand light-weight horsemen in 1 land before he died after a*race at the New Zealand Cup • meeting 1934. Noel East wood is apprentu lo his step-father, who is in with Royal Tan, which ran' in Caulfield Cup on Saturday, and is candidate for the Melbourne Cup l m month. Mrs Humphries flew to Aufitrt last week to sec the race. Like his father. Noel Eastwood never likely to be troubled by i creasing weight. In fact, his lack it has handicapped him somewhat his career, and he was sent t«r A tralia with Royal Tan and Corofln August partly in the hope that would put on weight as well As gi experience on the trip. » j To have ridden the winner of tl Caulfield Cup will be one of the gre achievements of Noel E&stwock career. It came 23 years after i father had ridden his first' winw Arthur Eastwood scored his, first w on Lancer in* the Ohapi Hack Hani cap at the Geraldine Racigig Clid spring meeting in 1826. Lancer w trained at Riccarton by H. Nurse, whom Eastwood was apprenticed. Arthur Eastwood died on Noveml 8. 1934. from injuries suffered wh [ell v. :l’h him the Jockey Club Handicap at R eel ton a few days before. 5 In IC3O. taking advantage of t slackness in light-weight rjding durj the New Zealand winter, he accept the position as coxswain to» the Ni Zealand eight which competed it I British Empire Games at Hamilti Ontario, and also at Toronto at I Canadian National Exhibition. Ea wood was recognised on. that trip one of the most proficient coxswal attached to .any of the eompeti teams. Arthur Eastwood won two New Zi land Cups (Chide and Fast Pas<a| two Stewards’ Handicaps (Sin Streak and Grand Sport), the Nt Zealand Derby (Silver Scorn), t New Zealand Oaks (Silver Scorn), i the Canterbury Cup (Silver Scot and he finished first in tTfc~Auckll Cup on Gay Crest, but lost the b our through interference with second horse, Motete.. nearing post. The positions were reversed Noel Eastwood joins a small bl of New Zealand jockeys who ha ridden a Caulfield Cup winner. Th were only two previously—Gefl Young, who was on Purser in II and Ashley Reed, who rode 1 Trump in 1937.