MELBOURNE CUP MEETING

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 34, 4 November 1929, Page 13

MELBOURNE CUP MEETING

PHAR LAP WINS VICTORIA DERBY NIGHTMARCH BEATEN IN STAKES By Telegraph.—Press Association. (Rec.! November 3, 5.5 p.m.) Melbourne, November 3. z- The weather was fine and warm for the opening day of the V.R.C. Melbourne Cup meeting on Saturday. There was an enormous attendance. Including the GovernorGeneral and four State Governors, also several Now Zealanders. The going was fast. Lineage, seventh in the half-mile, was in the lead at . tho distance in the Maiden, and won comfortably. Lineage is engaged in the Oaks, Green Wave led always, and had a comfortable victory in the Maribyrnong Plate. This horse has registered two firsts and a second In three starts. ..His only defeat was In the Debutant Stakes, where he was most unlucky.. He was bred by bls ownertrainer, G..Murrell There was a stirr ng contest in the Melbourne Stakes. High Syce caught the pacemaker, Molllson, in the last ten yards. Nightmarch was interrupted in his passage to the straight, but camo into a good third. Tralnei J. Holt has won the race twice p-oviously with Eurythmie. l Phar Lap was fourth early, but won the Derby handsomely. Pike, his rider, won in previous seasons on Beragoon, Beverage, and Strephon. The first prize was £4456. Phar Lap has won approximately £14,000. Amounls was third to last at the five furlongs, but finished ' brilliantly in the Cantala Stakes. He also won the race In 1920, ridden by J. Munro on both occasions. He bas Bow won twenty-one' races, and over £26,000. Prizes were:—Cantala Stakes, £2488; Plate, £2225; Stakes, £1118; Hotham Handicap, £543; Maiden Plate, £528. Shadow King was fourth early, but finished with a brilpliant run in the Hotham Handicap, aud won easily. Prince Viol suffered interference at the nine furlongs, an<J almost fell, but put up a good performance. Sectional times in the Melbourne Stakes were:— First two, 26? sec., next four oOJsec., succeeding four, 47? sec., last six, Imln. 12jsec., mile, Imin 38sec. „ , i : Sectional times in the Derby were: First four Kljsec.; .next four, 51? see.; last six, Imln. 13sec; mile, Imln. 38? sec. Results MAIDEN PLATE, of 6-sovs., with 600 add- ■ ed. • One mile. Lineage, 7.9 (W. Duncan) 1 Phoels, 8.0 ............ (W. Elliott) 2 Happy Warrior, 8.6 .(T. Lewis) 3 Fourteen started. .Won by two lengths and a halt a short half head between second and third. Roc was fourth. Time, Imln. 39Jsec.—a? race. record. MARIBYRNONG PLATE, of 25 sovs. each, with 2000 sovs. added. For two-year-plds. Five furlongs. Green Wave, 8.10 (A. Reed) 1 Comic Song, 8.6 , (H. Jones) 2 Thurlston, 8.10 (F. 8 Fourteen started. Won by'two lengths, half a length between second and third. Meadowlea was fourth. Time, Imln. Ojsec. MELBOURNE STAKES, or 10 sOvs. with 1500 sovs. added.; w.fa. One mile and a quarter. High Syce, 9.3 (Wi Duncan) 1 MoUlson, 8.11 (W. Cook) 2 Nightmarch, 9.0 .............. (R. Reed) 3 , Five started. Won by a neck, half a 1 tength between second aud third. Wiualot «au fourth. Time, 2min. 4jsec. VICTORIA DERBY, of 30 sovs. each, with 5000 sovs. added. For three-year-olds. One mile and a half. Phar Lap, 8.10 '.....(J. Pike) 1 Carradale, 8.10 Wilson) 2 Taisho, 8.10 (J. Munro) 3 Seven started. Won by two lengths, half a length between second and third. Limber Up was fourth. Time, 2min. 31}sec.—a race record. Pentheus made all the early pace, but Phar Lap led Into the straight. CANTALA STAKES, of 20 sovs. each, with 2000 sovs. added. One mile. Amounls, 9.12 (J, Munro) 1 Merab, 9.5 (H. Jones) 2 Black Duchess, 8.11 ........ (J, O’Brien) 3 Fifteen started. Won by three-quarters of a length, one length and a quarter between second and third. Reonul w’as fourth. Time, Imln. 38Jsec. . HOTHAM HANDICAP, of 6 sovs. each, with 600 sovs. added., One mile and a half. ■ Shadow King, 7.10 (J. O’Biren) 1 Harbinger, 8.4 (J. Nicholls) 2 Prince Viol, 8.7 (R. Medhurst) 3 Ten started., . Won by three lengths, a head between second and third. Lady Kentrel was fourth. Time, 2min. 34}sec. Wlnalot showed signs of lameness aftei; the Melbourne Stakes. High Svce’s winnings now total £18,588. Phar Lap’s total winnings amount to £14,711. [The supporters of Nightmarch in the Melbourne Cup should not be downhearted over hfs third in the Melbourne Stakes. It is astonishing the number of Melbourne Cup winners who have finished third in the Stakes-on Saturday and gone on and won the Cup on the Tuesday. As a matter of fact the position this year is identical with that of twelve months ago. Strepbon curried all before him just as Phar Lap was doing and Statesman finished third in the Melbourne Stakes. Yet in the Cup the crack three-year-old had to strike his colours to the older horse. History has a'wonderful habit of repeating it-self.-Un 1927 Spearfelt finished fourth in the Stakes and won the Cup. In 1926 Manfred. reckoned by competent judges the best three-year-old ever seen in Australia, won the ■ Derby with Windbag third In the Stakes, yet Windbag proved the sturdier horse at the end of the gruelling two miles of the Qjip. The list of third horses in the Melbourne Stakes that have won the Cup goes buck a long way, but sufficient has been quoted to indicate that despite Phar Lap’s apparent mortgage on the race the records favour Nightmarch.— "The Watcher.”]

PSYCHOLOGY COLT WINS (Rec. November 3, 5.5 p.m.) . . Brisbane, November 3. At the Queensland Turf Club’s meeting the following were the principal results:— MOPEPUL STAKES, of 10 sovs. each with . S ovs u dded. Five furlongs. Goldfind, 8.10 (Johnstone) 1 Small Change, 8.10 2 Robins, 8.10 ...7.” 3 Eleven started. Won by five 'lengths. Time, Imln.. IJsec. DERBY STAKES, of 10 sovs. each with 2000 sovs. added. One mile and a half. Bernfleld, 8.10 (i 1 . Brennan) 1 Lady Bine. 8.8 ; Myleslaeoplen, 8.10 3 Bight started. Won by two lengths and a half. Time, 2min. 35jsec. [Goldfind, the winner of the Hopeful Stakes, Is a brown colt by Psychology frnin Orafino. He was bred by Mr. T. H. Lowry and was purchased by Mr. Ken Austin at TrenthAm Inst January for 200 guineas. Goldfind was bought for Mr. E. .1. Watt, a former well-known resident of Hawke's Bay and New Zealand racing man.—" The Watcher.”]. A RACECOURSE ACCIDENT CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. (Rte. November 3, 0.5 p.m.) Melbourne, November 3. Henry Augustine Cooke, who Was knocked down and injured when the riderless horse Polugonuni jumped the fence On the reserve at Moohec Valley racecourse at Yarrnglen Hunt meeting on August 28, has Issued a writ claiming £l5OO damages from Arthur Hlskens, secretary of the Moonee Valley Club. NEW ZEALANDERS UNPLACED (Rec. November 3, 5.5 p.m.) Sydney, November 3. At the Canterbury Park races the New Zealander Coruscate did hot shine, finishing nowhere In the high-weight first division. while Prince Otto could only get fifth in the second division and Patadawn fourth in the Park Handicap.