AUSTRALIA Bernborough Wins Again

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 September 1946, Page 7

AUSTRALIA Bernborough Wins Again

Jockey J. Duncan Fatally Injured SYDNEY, September 15. The death of Jimmy Duncan, considered to be Sydney’s best middledistance jockey, overshadowed the Randwick meeting yesterday. Duncan was riding the favourite, Lord Dundee (trained by his father-in-law, Harry Horton) in the first race. He was pitched from the saddle into the running rail, when his horse fell. Lord Dundee brought down Double Mint, ridden by Darby Munro (who was slightly injured) and lay prone until the other horses had galloped over him. Duncan’s skull was fractured, and he did not regain consciousness. His wife, father, and father-in-law saw the accident. When Duncan’s death was announced, the crowd paid a spontaneous tribute by standing with bared heads. Bernborough scored his twelfth successive win when he walked away with the Chelmsford Stakes by five lengths. His rider, A .G. Mulley, changed his usual tactics of holding back and winning in a dazzling finishing burst. After his last experience, when he was criticised for hpldiffg the champion back, he decided to take Bernborough to the front early. Accordingly, Bernborough went to the front at the six furlongs and won pulling away. The New Zealand-bred Night Robe produced a likely finishing run in the Welter Handicap to beat Gay Monarch for second place. The race was won by Active Service. Results:— Tramway Handicap of £800; seven furlongs.—Puffham 8.7 (Johnson) 1; Abbeville 8.1 (Bougoure) 2; Blue Legend 8.7 (Abbott) 3. Twenty started. Two lengths; three-quarters of a length. Time, 1.25. Chlemsfprd Stakes, of 1000 Chelmsford Stakes., of £1000; weight-ior-age with penalties and allowances; nine furlongs.—Bernborough 9.11 (Mulley) 1; Two Grand 7.8 (Moore) 2: Prince Consort 7.2 (Williams) 3. Eight started. Five lengths; length. Time, 1.54”-. Spring Handicap, of £800; one mile and three furlongs.—Kiaree 8.12 (Fordyce) 1; Invictus 7.4 (Mullans) 2: Air Flare 8.9 (Brown) 3. Ten started. Short neck; half a head. Time, 2.22-1. Mentone Cup to Valcurl SYDNEY, September 15. At Melbourne yesterday. Valour, had no trouble in winning the Mentone Cup from Geronimo and New Yorker. The favourites, Night Guardian and Anstey, were never in the picture. The New Zealander, Royal Tan, which has been placed in the lasi two starts, ran third to Revinach and Chilperic in the Yarra Handicap. Mentone Cup, nine furlongs.—Valcurl 9.3 (Martin) 1; Geronimo 8.3 (Sanderson) 2; New Yorker 8.4 (O’Brien) 3. Twenty-two started. Two lengths; half a length. Time, 1.541, ■ _