DESPITE LAMENESS

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1936, Page 15

DESPITE LAMENESS

SILVER RING'S SUCCESS

(From "Vedette")

SYDNEY, October 13,

Silver Ring not only settled more doubts about his lameness in the Randwick Plate on Saturday, but reinstated himself as favourite for the Melbourne Cup. Only three aged horses contested this two-mile weight-for-age event, but they made a race of it, witn Silver Ring always on the box seat. T. Webster rode Oro and made the race for Silver Ring, who waited on the other pair until reaching the straight and then strode away to win. Oro was worrying Lough Neagh all the way over the last mile and that settled the pair of them. - Silver Ring was definitely lame in front when he returned to scale, but after an hour or so he had ; thrown it all off and is definitely booked for Melbourne. • :

J. M. Cameron almost sprang a surprise packet in the Canonbury Stakes with the Limond—My Own colt Only One. But for being left at the barrier and doing everything wrong m the straight,' Only One would have won easily. He ran in and out, settling the chances of both Micawber and the Night Raid filly Nightingale and leaving the neat Excitement gelding Theolos to lead all the way. Providing Only One settles down he will be a top-liner. So far he is the mosi promising colt seen in Sydney. With only four starters for the £650 Waverley Handicap and three for the £1000 Randwick Plate, stayers are evidently a dying race in Sydney. Tapestry, winner recently of the Newcastle Cup, won the handicap all the way, J. Duncan handling him as he did Young Crusader in the Metropolitan. '' ■"' J. King made his tally of winners at the meeting number seven when Canegrass and Mark Antony won for him on the concluding day. Both registered fine efforts, Canegrass finishing with determination to win the welter sixfurlong event. The, Epsom winner Capris tried to carry 10.1 behind Canegrass but pulled up very lame. 11 Duce was mildly supported in this event but shaped poorly. Ilium was made to gallop at least for six furlongs in the Clibborn Stakes, but declined to go further than the turn. The Iliad colt has, been a big disappointment this season. Mark Antony, the winner, is a neat Brazen colt with plenty of speed, but he was perhaps lucky to beat Bobby, who was not well ridden. ■ ■■■■•' ,- : ' On Parade scored a narrow and welldeserved victory in the Final Handicap. Both he and the Queenslander Auto Buz, whom he defeated narrowly, had run good but. unlucky races in the. Epsom Handicap. Both-had to work hard to get into-the firing line at all, for they were forced off the course. A bump at the turn cost Auto Btiz a length or two, but for which he would have beaten On Parade. The race provided an excellent finale for. one ofvjhe most peculiar and probably poorest Spring Meetings at Randwick in recent years. Limond's grandson Loch Lee won again at Caulfield on Saturday, finishing gamely in the Debutant Stakes and scoring narrowly after losing ground by jumping the crossing in ihe straight. J. Barry was again on the colt, who should bring him into the limelight.; The aged Surveyor mare Revision won her first race in Australia in the Oby Hurdle Race at Caulfleld on Saturday. Handily placed all through, she jumped to the front at the last fence and won by half a length. She was soldtwelve months ago Jo her present owner. • . ■.. • The smart Backwood colt Beechwood was too nippy for Prince Quex and the opposition in the Caulfleld Guineas. Beechwood dashed away to the front, and although Prince Quex challenged strongly at the finish the Australian colt would not be denied. It is considered that both Prince Quex and Boongarry will be suited better byjhe longer distance , and the Fleminetpn course for the Victoria Derby. The Sydney colt Shakespeare, who fell at the start of the A.J.C. Derby, ran a very fair race to finish fourth. ' Desert Chief keeps on winning for Mr. G. J; Barton, his latest success In the Herbert Power Stakes at Caulfield being won in a few strides in the last furlong. Desert Chief was solidly backed and gave nothing else a chance at the finish. He is now being considered very seriously for more im- . portant events. ' ~ ,; The Chanter, a four-year-old, jvho was expected to,do well in. Sydney last spring but went wrong, smothered the Toorak Handicap field at .the finish. He had been off the winning list for fourteen months, but came back with a vengeance. : Not only did he .win, but he lowered the mile record for Caulfield. Beechwood earlier in the day in the Guineas had reduced the record for the course to lmin 37} sec, but The Chanter clipped half a second off that time. ~. ■