NOT USUALLY HARD

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 105, 31 October 1933, Page 6

NOT USUALLY HARD

THE RICCARTON ' DOUBLE

Investors did very well in the big Eiccarton double last Novcniber. True, Shatter, first choice for the New Zealand Cup, ran badly, but Fast Passage, the winner, was second choice, and Cadland, the Stewards' Handicap victor, was favourite, says the Christchurch "Star." The New Zealand Cup has not proved at .all a bad race for backers in recent years. Since 1014 it has been won six times by the first choice and four times by the second favourite. In the four successive years, .1027-30, the chief public fancy won "on each occasion. .'.I.U the same period onlj live first favourites have won the Stewards', and there have been some big upsets. Investors failed to see the joke in 1025 and 1026, when Comic Song' won oach time. In 1025 he was twentieth ■ favourite, and twelve months later ho was thirteenth favourite. Only twice in the last seventeen yeais have favourites won the double.. Oratressarid Arrowsmith'did the'trick in 1920, and Eapier and Eulalie: repeated in 1027. The results over;the period,,under- review, giving the fate of the favourite, .and the order of popularity of the winner respectively, have-been:—?' . ' V

■ • ■• Favourite. 1' '■ Winner. ' 1915.... Unplaced Fifth fav. 1918■■...-.• Second Twelfth fav. 1017 .... Unplaced Fourth fav. • • 1018 .... Third . Second fav. ....; ' 191!);... Unplaced Third fav. 1020 Won ' First fav. ' . ' 1021 .... Won .'First fav. 1022 .... Second Second fav. . 1823-'..., •Third. -Eighth fav. ■ 1(124 .... Unplaced Second fav. 1925 .... Second Second fav> ■ '1920 ..;.•! Unplaced Fourth fav. • 1927 ....' 'Won ■ First fav. , 1928 .... Won First fav. . " : 1929.... Won. First fav.. ,,.... .1930.. ..Won First fav, .' v 1931 :..;.'"Third Seventh fav.: . 1932 Eighth' Second fav. Stewards' Handicap. ' 1015 .... Unplaced Eighth fav. 1016 Unplaced . Fourth fav. 1917 Won First fav. 1918 Unplaced Sixth fav. 191!) .... Second Ninth fav. 1920 Won •• First fav. 1921 Third Seventh fav. 1922..'.. Unplaced ■ Third fav. .:■ ■' 1923 .■:.. W'on| First fav. ..• .. •. . 192-1 ....... Third Eighth-fav.' ■.- . 1.92.) ....'. Unplaced Twentieth;fav... 1!)2C> .... Unplaced Thirteenth fav; . 1927 Won ■,-■ First fav. - • - ( . 1923 .;.. , Unplaced . , Tenth fav. : .•.'■. ' .1929 .... Second , Sixteenth fay.,.; ■> 1930 ;... Unplaced ■.■•Tenth fav. ■ i ■;, .1931 ....Third • : Ninth fav, .:. ■ ■ \1982 •....' Won 1 ■'' First fav.: