RACING IN AUSTRALIA

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 288, 9 November 1925, Page 9

RACING IN AUSTRALIA

FISHER PLATE WON BY PILLIEWINKIE.

V.R.C. HANDICAP BY OUR PRINCE.

MELBOURNE, ’ Nov. 8. There was fine warm weather for the Flemington races and the attendance was large. The going was hard. There was a great race for the Batman Stakes, the Sydney gelding, Amounis, who was fourth early in the race, winning narrowly. Amounis cost A. P. Wade 2500 guineas in September, and he has won five races this season. Ken Bracken rode the winner. F. Dempsey’s mount, Cyanate, was always well placed in the Flemington Stakes and won smartly from Heroic’s brother, Thracian. Cyanate cost his owner - trainer, Sid Ferguson, " 350 guineas. This is Dempsey’s fourth successive win in this event.

Tho New Zealand horse, Pilliewinkie, made a great run in the C. B. Fisher Plate and won brilliantly from the favourite, Windbag. It was a slow race in the early part, tho first two furlongs being covered in 33sec and the mile in 1.52. Pilliewinkie’e rider, GS Young, had a great reception.

King’s Pardon had a big lead early in the V.R.C. Handicap and was narrowly beaten in an exciting finish by Our Prince, who, at the start, was second to last. The winner is owned in Adelaide. Agricolo led nearly all the way in the Victoria Steeplechase and scored comfortably, thus registering his fourth successive win. This is his rider Inkson’s third win in jumping races at this meeting. Tho total stakes for the meeting were £42,473. The first prize in the Fisher Plate was £llls. Results:— BATMAN STAKES. Amounis, 8.11 1 Hampden, 8.4 2 Ambassador, 8.7, and Kingsfoude, 8.9, dead heat 3

Eight starters. Won by a neck, a hend between second and third. Time, 1.41. FLEMINGTON STAKES. Cyanate, 7.9 1 Thracian, 8.1 ... 2 Raisuli, 7.7 ... ... ... 3 Ten starters. Won by one and ahalf lengths, a head between second and third. Time, 1.15. C. B. FISHER PLATE. Pilliewinkie, 9.2 (G. Young) ... 1 Windbag, 9.0 (J. Munro) ... 2 Pantheon, 9.1 (S. Cracknell) ... 3 Heroic also ran. Heroic and Windbag made the pace. Pilliewinkie, who was, last early in the race, came fast and won by'one and a-half lengths, tho same distance, separating second and third. Time, 2.393. V.R.C. HANDICAP. Our Prince, 7.6 ... ... 1 King’s Pardon, 6.11 ... ... 2 Stralia, 7.0 ... ... ... 3 Ten starters. Won by a neck, four lengths separating second and third. Slave was fourth. Time, 2.59. The first two furlongs were run. in the last six in 1.16. VICTORIA STEEPLECHASE. Agricolo. 10.11 ... ... 1 Master Fife, 9.4 ... ... 2 Mandleman, 9.0 ... ... 3 There were six starters. Won by four lengths, twelve lengths separating second and third. Time, 6.195- Winghaldean fell and Irish Rufus was pulled up. FINAL HANDICAP. Arondal, 8.4 ... ... ... 1 The Tyrant, 7.12 ... >.. 2 Friarsdale, 8.1 ... ... ... 3 Won by a head, a neck between second and third. Time, 2.53- Arendal was a long way back early in the raco but won in the last stride. —Press Association.