RACING IN INDIA

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1927, Page 9

RACING IN INDIA

QUINCY OX TOP AT A MILE Qumcy. owned hy {ho A-a Khan, ivo:i the King-Kmperor's Cup at Calcutta, beating the old champion. Orangt' Vi'illiiini, who dead-heated Affable lor second. The Aga Khan is now racing several horses in Calcutta, the best evidently being the Euglisli-bred gelding Quiiiey, by Verwood from Quakeress, though Prater js useful. ' At Calcnitaon llih! December, Quuicy

won the Wellesley Plate, 1% mile, o£ 10,000 rupees, for which, with 9.G, he was favourite. Ridden by A. C. Walker, he beat Keep It Dark (8.7) by half a length. Cap-a-pie, who afterwards won the Viceroy s Cup from Orange William and Qmncy, was a runner, and finished fourth. He is owned by Mr. C. N. Wadia. At his next start, which was -on ISth December, Quincy won again, takking Calcutta s big mile race, the King-Emperor's Cup, worth £2000 and a £100 trophy to the owner of the winner. Orange William was, favourite, Quincy coming next. There was a great finish, Quincy winning by three-quarters of a length from 4« dead-heaters, Orange William and Affable, each of the three carrying 9.3. i-ne time was lmin 40 l-ssec. The" minor Place-getters are well looked after in Calcutta's big races, second money being £666, and third £333 in the King-Em-peror's Cup. On the day the King-Emperor's Cup was run the race of next importance was the Mlenborough Plate, of about £500 to the winner. L.S.D.> ridden by O'Brien, won, and paid a long price on the totalizator. India has been long lost to Australia as a thoroughbred market, and the only horses from this part of the world nominated for flat races at Calcutta were Reciprocity and Horticulturist, the former being in Class 111., and the latter in Class IV. In Calcutta, horses are divided into classes, Class IV. being the lowest. it Australian horses do not count in India it is not so with our jockeys. A. C. .Walker, Dobie, and Hutchins are again doing well in Calcutta, the fiistnamed riding for the Aga Khan, among others. L. Brown, the es-Sydneyite who is on a visit to India from Engfand, had some wmnmg rides last month, and J BarTV? 0 V?V he Metropolitan on Saiti TWJ? 11 ' had Vvin on Sir Ismf»l baits Fhntham, on Lang-Emperor's Cup