HORSE WHO BEAT CUDDLE

Evening Post, Issue 48, 26 February 1936, Page 15

HORSE WHO BEAT CUDDLE

', Regular Bachelor, Cuddle's easy victor in the Caulfleld Futurity Stakes last-Saturday, is a visitor from Queensland who is apparently better than he ■..was thought to/be by Melbourne critics. On top of his latest success he is certain to have climbed many rungs in favouritism for Saturday's Newmarket Handicap, in which he is •weighted at 8.11. Just prior to last Saturday he was on the ninth line, thus one of the outsiders in the betting. • Regular Bachelor is a four-year-old brown horse, by Bachelor's Persse (im- ■ ported son of Bachelor's Double)1 from by Highfield (son of William the Third) from Regular Hours, by fiaut Brion' (son of St. Simon) .from Regulator, by Havoc (a New Zealand-bred son of Nordenfeldt). He-| is owned in Queensland, where' he did his early racing. As a,two-year-old he, •twasin the top class, his successes including the Q.T.C. Sires' Produce Stakes. Last season he won a number of races, some of them with very big weights, leaving no doubt that he was ] a good horse. On his present trip v the journey was broken in Sydney, ana a ■fortnight ago he won a race! at RosehiH. While he was given credit, however, for an attractive performance, it did not impress the critics as a trial for the Newmarket' Handicap, that being his special mission in Victoria. Regular Bachelor is not the first Queensland horse to win the Futurity Stakes, as Gold Tie, who was successful in 1920, also came from the same quarter. . The Futurity-Newmarket double, however, is one that has not often been achieved.