Baghdad Note wins cup

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33386, 19 November 1973, Page 8

Baghdad Note wins cup

(A’.Z.P.A. Staff Correspondent) . MELBOURNE. Baghdad Note won his biggest race since the 1970 Melbourne Cup when he took the $20,0001 Sandown Cup i2400m) at San- ; down on Saturday. ' Baghdad Note has won only ; three races since his Melbourne! ■ Cup victory, but he has shown’ promising form in the last few! ; weeks, and he began fifth fav-! . ourite at 8/1. Behind him. in! third place, was this year’s Melbourne Cup winner, Gala Su- ' preme. Imagele again had to bow to the champion South Australian] colt, Taj Rossi, in the $15,000] Sandown Guineas (1600 m ' I The Guineas became some-; : I thing of a match race between’ ] the two. They drew away from > | their rivals, and had a head-to-! ■head tussle over the final 400 m.; Taj Rossi did a little better! i over the final 100 m, winning bv a neck from Imagele, with (he , filly, Nandalie Lass, three lengths' i away third. The fourth home was I (the former New Zealand horse. ' Craig Win. In the last four weeks, Taj ’ Rossi has won the W. S. Cox Plate, the $lOO,OOO Victoria' ' Derby, the George Adams Handicap, and the Sandown Guineas. Taj Rossi took his record stake j (earnings for a three-year-old to! i $199,200. He will be spelled be-1 (fore returning for a tilt at the’ (Australasian Chamnion Stakes at! Randwick in March. Mellition (Mellav—First Addi-: tion). owned and trained by Mr! :A. E. Diriham, surmised his 1 owner and his iockev, the own- i eris son, E. J. Didham, when he! j got up in the last stride to dead- ] heat for first with Fondamoor I (in the $4OOO First Rivette Handi-I cap (1400 m ; In a blanket finish, Fondamoor! (on the outside looked to have (won. but the judge declared a dead-heat, to the surnrise of the Didhams.