SYDNEY CUP FAILURE

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30109, 18 April 1963, Page 4

SYDNEY CUP FAILURE

The Dip Tired Badly [From Ths Australian Comspondant Of “Tin Pr«s»”l SYDNEY. The Dip, believed to be the best bet ever in the Sydney Cup, roiled, recovered, rolled, recovered, and rolled almost to a standstill as the lightweight, Miaidenhead, gradually ran him down to beat him by a length and a half at Randwick on Monday As he showed in the last Melbourne Cup, The Dip cannot run two miles. Had the track been firm it might have been different, but overnight rain made Randwick a quagmire. All this was to the good for Maidenhead, a six,-yeer-oid mare carrying the minimum weight, 7-0, and with the cups specialist, W. A. Smith, to think for her. Smith did his job welj, gradually getting his mount from the rear to be about sixth on the turn and no more than six lengths from The Dip and Marco Khan. The Dip was taken wide to avoid the “ploughed paddock” on the depression on the home turn. Marco Khan went with him on to the firmer going and when The Dip moved away all seemed set for the favourite's victory. Then Smith ; brought Maidenhead through the mud near the rails, and they mastered The Dip dose to the post.

Maidenhead is by Edwardsii, the Nasrullah horse noone would have, but which, now dead, has left behind him the Melbourne Cup winner, Lord Fury, and the Sydney Cup winners, Sharply and Maidenhead.