OWNER'S ILL LUCK

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 13

OWNER'S ILL LUCK

IN MOONEE VALLEY CUP

i (From "Vedette.") MELBOURNE, October 27. The ill luck attending Mr. Alan Cooper was continued in the Moonee Valley Gold Cup on Saturday when Mala was beaten into second place by. the outsider Frill Prince. Mala was moet unlucky, for he was cut. off at the seven-furlong post and in trouble to the turn, where he was brought to the outside. Finishing generously, he lust failed to get up. Frill Prince provided a great result tor the bookmakers. He was selected isabout the best Outsider in the Caul--seld Cup, but ran disappointingly, beating only one or two home. At Moonee Valley three days later he time with a'rush from the half-mile cO lead into the straight and stall off Mela. :,v, Wotan ran a solid race to finish with. He had a fresh rider in vP. Atkins, for although O. Phillips had donned the colours he found that he was riot to ride. He complained to the stewards, but no action was taken. : The three-year-old Nightguard was prominent all the way to finish third. butiWotan's stablemate International .gain ran poorly,' while Jack Homer tnd Manolive broke down and both were very lame after the race, It is believed that Manolive will not be able to race again. D. Munro and Young Idea proved too strong a- combination for Courteraft in the W. S. Cox Plate, run over )_ furlongs at weight-for-age. P. fkins rode Courtcraf t, but. lacked owledge of the peculiar Moonee Val- ' 'track. Had an Australian rider been on the New Zealand colt he would save won easily.' The New Zealandfared Bellevue ran another fine race to finish fourth, being just behind Charles Fox. Ndrmal, who has developed into a jolid colt, made no Tace of the colts' knd geldings' section of the St, Alban a Saftdicap. He was soon in front and jwrn easily in 48|sec for the half-mile, ♦stablishing a course record.