PLATE TO FLIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 103, 29 October 1945, Page 10

PLATE TO FLIGHT

VALCURL WINS AT ODDS

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)

MELBOURNE, October 27

Despite his ignominious defeat In the \V. S. Cox Plate at Moonee Valley today, Lawrence remains favourite for the Melbourne Cup

Sydney's champion mare Plight ran one nf the greatest races of her career to lead nearly all the way in the Cox Plate, flghtins; off challenge after challenge to win narrowly from the Victoria Derby favourite, Don Pedro Lawrence, an odds-on favourite, finished fourth. The Moonee Valley Cup was won by an outsider, Vnlcurl. in a tight finish, from tbf prominent Melbourne Cup candidate Leonard. The course was heavy and times were slow Results'* were :— W. S. COX PLATE. £1500; weight-for-age; IV4 miles. Flight (Royal Step—Lambent), 8.13 (O'Sullivan) > 1 Don Pedro (Gay Lothario—Miss Devlin), 7.11 (Conk) ■ 2 Russia (Excitement —Lady March),, 9.4 (Duncan) 3 Eight started. Half-head; three lengths. Time,'2.B%. ' MOONEE VALLEY CUP, £3500; 1 mile and 5 furlongs. Valcurl (Valiant Chief—Curlls), 7.9 (Cook) 1 Leonard (Dhoti —Jeanne Hatchette), 7.3 (Duncan) 2 Duntroon (Enfleld—Regalic), 7.9 (Powell) . 3 Sixteen started. Head; two lengths. Time,

Sixteen started 2.48y 2 . Immediate was ' scratched for the Phoenix Handicap. ;