PERTH IN OCTOBER

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 133, 3 December 1930, Page 8

PERTH IN OCTOBER

."VENUE OF NEXT KING'S CUP The Western Australian Turf Club has 'decided to run the fifth contest for the King's Cup at the Perth Meeting in October next, and this means that the issue ■will probably be confined to Western Australian horses. Thar Lap, this year's winner at Morphetville, Adelaide, and other champions, will be in the throes of the spring carnival at Randwick and Caulfield in that month, and it is doubtful if any horse of account will miss these.fixtures to travel to Western Australia. ' The wonder is that the W.A.T.G. did hot put the race on the programme of its big Perth Cup carnival at Cliristnias and the New Year. Iff would Seem that the club, in deciding on the October date, deliberately set itself to exclude the best horses in the Commonwealth and to give Western Australian owners the now doubtful honour of winning the fifth Cup. ' The King's Cup is a gold trophy donated by His Majesty King George V. in 1927 lor competition in Australia, and the honour of winning it is one of Hie highest that the Commonwealth Turf- oilers. The race is run in the various States of the Commonwealth in rotation, so that no particular State shall have a monopoly, and in the four earlier contests the clute 3ias so been arranged that all the best horses in Australia and New Zeala7id might have an opportunity of competing. The race is over a mile and a half, and a stake of 1000 soys is attached, besides the cup. Fleinington (Victoria) was the scene of the first contest, and Randwick (N.S.W.), Brisbane, and Morpethville (South Australia) followed. The winners po far have been Spear Jlaiden (1927), Limerick (1928), Valparaiso (J029), and Phar Lap (1930). The first winner washred in Victoria, the third in New South Wales, and the other pair in New Zealand.