A SMILE IN ADVERSITY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 117, 13 November 1937, Page 22

A SMILE IN ADVERSITY

There are few better-known men on the Australian Turf than Mr. E. Eccles, owner of The Trump, recent winner of the Caulfleld and Melbourne Cups double. Mr. Eccles has been associated with racing over a long period. An Adelaide racing man who has a treat admiration for Mr. Eccles is Mr. Idgar Solomon, who relates that Mr. Eccles always delights in telling friends to back his horses if he thought they possessed chances. Moreover, he is always prepared to take the good with the bad. Mr. Solomon stood alongside Mr. Eccles during the running of the 1922 Melbourne Cup. in which Mr. Eccles had backed his horse, The Cypher, for a big sum. The stable stood to win approximately £70,000. Wh»n King Inaoda defeated The Cvoher by the narrowest margin, Mr. Eccles was still able to smilft. Until thiß season Mr. Ecclce's luck in' important races had not been the best, as, In addition to The Cypher going down. Yarramba, another, horse owned by the Victorian sportsman, was just beaten on the post by Peter Pan in the 1932 Melbourne Cup.

D. Hall, who suffered a.oroken collarbone and a severe shaking when Fiord fell at the last fence in the Port Cooper Hurdles at Riccartbn on Wednesday, has been most unlucky as a rider of jumpers. A few years ago he was out of the saddle toe many months after having had a leg broken in a fall at Orari, and last winter he suffered two broken collarbones when schooling a horse at Orari.