VALUABLE SYDNEY CUP
The Sydney Cup, with its fine stake of £4000, is the next big event of the Australian Turf. In casting the weights the Australian. Jockey Club's- handicapper placed-the, New Zealand-bred pair, Veilmond and Antique, at the top with 9.10 and' 9.5 respectively, and both have received their full deserts.
A. good deal of interest was centred in the likely impost of the three-year-old Peter Pan, who won the Melbourne Cup under 7.6. Peter Pan has been awarded 9.0, which represents . 121b over weight-for-age.'Carbine carried 9.0 when he won-the Sydney Cup in 1889, and .this stands as the greatest feat accomplished in the race by a three-year-old.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 67, 21 March 1933, Page 4
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109VALUABLE SYDNEY CUP Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 67, 21 March 1933, Page 4
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