DUNEDIN CUP HISTORY

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 15

DUNEDIN CUP HISTORY

j (Special to the "Evening Post.") DUNEDIN. February 11. J. Richards, who has done all. his schooling on Royal Pal, will ride him in the Warrington Hurdles on Thursday and W. Cooper will be on Chrysology in the samcr race. Cooper will also ride Vantooh in the Berwick Handicap, and J. T. Hayes will rides Aro Arc in the President's Handicap. Final Bell will be me of J. Dooley's mounts. This year's Dunedin Cup is the sixtyfifth of the series.' It was first run over two miles and a distance in 1867, being won by W. Moorehouse's Knottingly. In 1895, when it was won by H. Goodman s Casket, the distance was reduced to 1J miles and 123 yards. Four years later, when E. Cutts's pjin Djin was successful! the' journey 'was shortened to 1J miles, a distance at which it still stands. The time record for the race, at its present distance, is held by Pilliewinkie, who, in 1925, with 8.12, covered the 1J miles in 2min 3lsec. . Sixteen three-year-olds have won the Cup, the record for weight carried by horses of this age being held by Silver Scorn, who was successful under 9.2 in 1933. Last year's winner, Tauramai, was also a three-year-old. Three-year-olds engaged in this year's race are Kinnoull, Greek Shepherd, and Superex. Osculate is the only horse placed in last year's Cup who will be starting this year. He carried 7.8 when second twelve months ago and he has 8.8 on Thursday. - Mary Pratt is regarded as a likely non-starter in the President's Handicap but The Surgeon, who now has 9 o,'will probably take on this race in preference to the Stewards' Handicap.