AUSTRALIAN RACING

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 79, 1 October 1945, Page 10

AUSTRALIAN RACING

EPSOM TO SHANNON

PLACING TO HIGH PLAY

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)

SYDNEY, Sepember 29

A crowd of approximately 78,000 at Randwick saw the favourites win the Epsom Handicap and A.J.C. Derby. With a mighty run Shannon snatched victory, in the last few yards of the Epsom. He has now won four races in a row. Adjudged before the race as the best of good things, Shannon pioved by his performance that with average luck tie would have won easily. However, hf> had the hardest of races. He was badly away and only eleventh at the halfmile From then on he was off the course and came down the outside in the straight under extreme pressure to win by half a neck from the outsider Melhero and the third favourite i Silent. j The second favourite. Immediate, was a close fourth The New Zealander bounced right out at the barrier and was going just as well as Puffhain and Bragger, who set a fast pace in front. Immediate was in front In She last furlong, but wilted a little towards the close. His fourth placing .was anything but a disgrace. With tlnj race run to suit him, Magnificent scored a decisive win in the Derby from the rank outsiders Guiding Light and Cavalero. It was a muddling race, in which there was much interference, and the test was completely Inconclusive from a staying angle. Magniftcent's jockey, the Victorian 11. Heather, was later disqualified for two months. The stewards reported that Heather's carelessness nearly brought down half the Derby field in the first furlong. , High Play made a game bid to win the Squatters' Handicap, but was beaten by the staying find of the season. Turn Again. The pair cut at one another in front, but finally the New Zealander was shaken off in the straight. ■ ! Record totalisator figures were established for Australia yesterday when punters Invested £226,591 in seven races. Results were:— THE A.J.C. DERBY, of £5 each, -with £5000 added; three-year-olds; l>/ 2 miles. Magnificent, 8.10 (Ajax—Complete) (Heather) i Guiding Light, 8.10 (Gcnetout —Providence) (Hare) 2 Cavalero, 8.10 (Le Grand Due—Grumeti) (McGrowdie) '. 3 Thirteen started. Two lengths each way. Time, 2.36%. THE EPSOM HANDICAP, of £30 each, with £3000 added; 1 mile. Shannon, 8.10 (Midstream—ldle Words) (Munro) 1 Melhero, 8.12 (Melfort—Heresnie) (Fellows) -2 Silent, 7.9 (Talking—Morning Gift) (Cook) 3 Seventeen started. Half a neck each way Time, 1.36 'A . THE COLIN STEPHEN STAKES, of £10 each, with £1500 added; welght-for-age; IVz miles. Russia, 9.5 (Excitement—Lady March) (Thompson) \ Flight, 9.0 (Royal Step—Lambent) (Munro) 2 Cragie, 9.5 (Chatham—Grosvenor Maid) (Duncan) 3 Five started. Half a neck; two lengths. Time, THE SQUATTERS' HANDICAP, of £10 each with £1000 added; 114 miles. Turn Again, 8.0 (Hua—Peel 0' Bells) (Podmore) j High Play, 8.13 (Croupier—Miss"6diVle) (Hare) 2 Culnooy, 7.5 (Tartan Silk—Vodino')' * "(Pe'rcival) 3 Thirteen started. Three-quarters of a length: neck. Thne, 2.3^4.