DEFAULTER’S A.J.C. PLATE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 116, 17 April 1939, Page 12

DEFAULTER’S A.J.C. PLATE.

AJAX SCORES AGAIN. RANDWICK FINAL DAY. SYDNEY, April 16. The final day’s racing at Randwick on Saturday was marked by good fields and excellent sport. The New Zealand horses Defaulter and Malagigi again won well. The former’s brilliant performance in leading file field for two miles and winning the A.J.C. Plate of two miles and a-quarter from worthy opponents like Chief. Mosaio and Allunga, was acclaimed all over the course.

Malagigi snatched a smart victory in the Fnal Handicap after he had begun badly, and after being pocketed at the home turn.

Ajax had no difficulty in accounting for his five opponents in. the C. W. Cropper Plate, including Gold Rod. Ajax’s winnings now total £31,100. The attendance was 33,000, compared with 31,000 last year. Defaulter is described in the Sunday Press as the best three-year-old, best weight-for-age and best stayer at the Randwiok meeting, and Ajax as the best sprinter and best four-3’ear-old. High Caste with Reading shared the juvenile honours.

His trainer, Frank Roberts, told the Sunday Sun that Defaulter fulfilled every expectation when he had a runaway victory in the A.J.C. Plate. He emphasised that Defaulter had ample room to stretch out. whereas in his two previous Randwick starts he had been “given a rough spin” by other horses, and indeed had been so severely knocked about that Roberts instructed his rider on Saturday to take Defaulter to the front and stay there. Ellis did that, and at one stage had a five lengths’ break on the field, despite which the time was not so fast. Defaulter will return to New Zealand next Friday, and will come back to Australia for the spring meetings. Results are: ROUS HANDICAP. Seven furlongs.— Aureus. 9.0 (Bartle), 1; Red Thespian, 8.7, 2: June, 9.3, 3. Twenty started. Two lengths: a length. Heroic Faith was fourth. Time, 1.23£. WOO I, LA I IRA HANDICAP. One mile. —Knight Folly, 7.12 (Harvey), 1; Gilltown, 8.7, 2; Vestal, 7.7, 3. Fourteen started, including The Squire. A hoad; two lengths. Panax was fourth. Time, 1.38,1. C. W. CROPPER PLATE. Six furlongs. AJAX, 9.3 (Badger) 1

GOLD ROD, 8.9 (McCarten) 2 AMIABLE, 7.12 (A. Reed) 3 All started. Ajax took command from Creditor at five furlongs and the outcome of the race was never afterward in doubt. Gold Rod went after Ajax at the homo turn, but Badger, riding Aftiax right out. won decisively by two lengths, with half a length between Gold Rod and Amiable. King’s Head was fourth. Time, 1.121.

DANGAR HANDICAP. One mile and a half.—Feminist, 7.4 (Lappin), 1; Will Rogers, 6.8. 2: Ripley, 6.12, 3. Two lengths and a half; length and a quarter. Cathartes was fourth. Time, 2.431. FERXHILL HANDICAP. One mile Tel Asur, 7.7 (Hughes), 1; Dagmar, 7.4, 2; Dashing Cavalier, 8.5, 3. Seventeen started, including The Stork. In a thrilling finish along the straight, Tel Asnr won by a neck, with two lengths between second and third. Lavengro was fourth. Time, 1.39. A.J.C. PLATE. Two miles and a quarter. DEFAULTER, 8.2 (Ellis) 1 SPEAR CHIEF. 9.0 (McCarten) ... * MOSAIC. 8.2 (Bartle) * ALLUNGA, 9.4 (Munro) 4 *Dcad-hoat for second. Scratched: Marauder, Stuffy, Catbartcs and L’Aiglon. Defaulter took the lead at the four furlongs the first time round and opened up a gap of three lengths from Mosaic and Allunga, which he held for more than a mile. Mosaic and Spear Chief came at Defaulter nearing the home turn, but the New Zealander finished full of running and won amid great, cheering bv two lengths. Allunga was fourth, five lengths away. 'Time, 3.581. FINAL HANDICAP. One mile and a quarter. MALAGICT, 9.3 (Badger) ... 1 COORANGA. 8.10 (Bartle) 2 SILENT TIP, 7.0 (Knox) 3 Eight started, including Limulet. Tn a resolute finish Malagigi won by a head, with a length between second and third. Limulet was fourth. Time, 2.61MENTONE RESULTS. MELBOURNE, April 16. At Mentone, on Saturday, Namnkia. won the Botsdale Welter Handicap. Bankshaw was second in the Stratford Handicap, and Night Legend was third iu the Avon Handicap.