AUSTRALIAN TURF

Evening Star, Issue 25004, 25 October 1943, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN TURF

CAULFiELD GUP IN DIVISIONS SKIPTON AND OUTSIDER SCORE MELBOURNE, Oct. .24. In winning fhefirst division of the Caulfield Cup at Fleinington-day the rank out-, sider, St. Warden, caused the greatest surprise in the long history of the race. St. Warden, -who" had won only one other race in two years, was a long way back in the early stages, but gradually made up ground and hit the front a furlong from the post. St. Warden was bred in New Zealand, There was strong sunport for The Joker, but he finished only eleventh. . , ' / In the second division of the Cup bkipton returned to his brilliant three-year-old form and won pulling up. Dominate finished ninth. . . ,

Caulfield Cup, £6,500. l£m.—First division: St. Warden 7.3 (H. White) 1, Heart's Desire 7.8 (Preston) 2, Simmering 7.5 (Unkovitch) 3. Twenty-two. started. Threequarters of a length; half a head. Time, 2.30 J. Second division: Skipton 9.2 (Breasley) 1, Amans 8.4 (Dewhurst) 2, Centenary 'B.O (Heather) 3, ■, Twenty-three started. One and a-half lengths; length. Time, 2.30£.