BIG VICTORIAN CUPS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 12, 14 July 1939, Page 13

BIG VICTORIAN CUPS

With the exception of Ajax, the bookmakers with charts on the Melbourne and Caulfield Cups double are looking outside Victoria for the winners of these big races this year. The order of favouritism following the appearance of the weights was: — Caulfield Cup, li miles; run 'October 21.—-Ajax; Feminist, Malagigi, Mildura, Millie's Hope, Mosaic, Spear Chief, and St. Constant; and Bonny Loch, Early Bird, El Golea, Footmark, Gilltown, Marauder. Nightguard, Ortelle's Star, Pageant, Reading, Son of Aurous, Tel Asur, Tempest. The Trump. Wilson, Zonda. Melbourne Cup, 2 miles; run November 7_Defaulter, Spear Chief; Ajax, Aurania-, Bonny Loch, High Caste, Malagigi. Mosaic, Pageant Wilson, Zonda; and Aspire, Catalogue, Cooranga, Feminist, Footmark. L'Aiglon, Marauder, Millie's Hope, Ortelle's Star, Pure Gold, Son of Aurous, St. Constant. Tel Asur.-

The Lackham gelding Colin, who won the Maiden Scurry at the last Napier Park Racing Club's Meeting and who has been showing some promising form over longer distances, was tried out as a jumper at Napier Park last week, when he knuckled over and so badly injured himself that it was found necessary to destroy him. Earlier in his career he was owned by Mr. F. * Kettlewell and trained at Trentham by D. McCauley.