SYDNEY TURF

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 131, 1 December 1930, Page 6

SYDNEY TURF

R. O'DONNELL'S LUCK

(From "Vedette.") SYDNEY, 25tU November. The ex-New Zealand trainer R. D. O'Donnell had a very likely winning representative at Warwick Farm on Saturday, in the two-year-old Marching Orders, by March Along from Lady Ortelle. Like Balloon King, this filly races in the interests p£ the estate" of the late John^ Brown. She made a determined run' through on the inside in the straight, and liur effort suggested that she is going to be a very useful performer. O'Donnell is having a welcome change of luck, arid he has one or two more young horses in his stable, the property of the estate that should win him good money. There was a real New Zealand flavour about Bennick, the winner of the first division of the Greystanes Nursery at Warwick Farm on Saturday, He is by Tea Tray from Afterglow, by Demosthenes from Sunglow, whose dam was Otterden. Bennick is a - rfmart galloper who looks like being in the top row of Australian,juveniles this season.. G. Price and 11. JVi'Carten are not proving a very fortunate combination, these days. M'Carten is riding without any luck, and if there is any trouble in a race he will be in it. He rode Price's candidate Carry On in the Farm Stakes on Saturday, Carry Ob being considered the best of good things. Her running proved that she was, although narrowly beaten. She was in every kind of trouble, and then went under by only a neck to Concal, a sister to Goshawk, by Magpie from Fedalma. Concal ; has now won three races on end, and at Warwick Farm carried a 71b penalty for her win at Menangle earlier in the week. I A likely three-year-old seen out at War-1 wick Farm to finish third' was Minter, by Paper Money from Zany. He was having only his fourth race, and something better can be expected of him soon. Catcall, who at one time was trained for Mr. Eric Riddiford, but "did little racing, was represented by a likely two-year-old at Warwick Farm in Head Chief, a bay gelding by Chief Ruler. He was j having his first run, and showed a good deal of pace for three furlongs. He was not, in the betting market : nor very prominent at the finish. He" is in the same stable as the Epsom Handicap win- j ncr Cathmar. Gesture's two-year-old, sister Miss Nottava ran an improved race on Saturday. She is below the standard of Gesture at present by a good margin, but she will win races. She iB in the same stable as Head Chief, and was second favourite in the same race, but just missed a place. Richfield "waa top ■weight (8.9) in a mile race for apprentices at Warwick Farm. He was never in a. prominent' position,' and finished down the course. The ex-Aueklander Vallar was backed for -the open six-furlong event at Warwick Farm as if settling day did not exist. He had every chance, but -was beaten practically half a furlong from home and just struggled into third place. The winner, a three-year-old called Lad, was a rank outsider, and his success provided a rare , turn-up for the bookmakers, relieving them of double as well as straight-out obligations. < Stormy staged a great finishing run into third place in the principal sevent at Warwick Farm. The race was won rather comfortably by the Magpie filly Volense, but Stormy's effort suggested ■ that he should have gained .second money.