GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLES RUN TO-DAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27040, 26 March 1949, Page 5

GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLES RUN TO-DAY

The Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase will be run to-day over a distance of about four miles and 856 yards. It is open to six-year-olds and upwards who have won a steeplechase of three miles or more of the value of 300 sovereigns, or who have been placed first, second or third in a steeplechase of any distance at Aintree. The maximum weight is 12.7 and the minimum lOst. Tire stake is

5000 sovereigns (including a trophy valued at 300 sovereigns) with a sweepstake of 100 sovereigns. The topweight to-day is Cottage Rake with 12.5 and the oldest runner will be Sen Toi, who is 14. The largest field that has contested the race was in 1920, when Gregalach won from 65 other runners.

ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT “Argument,” Mosgiel.—Phar Lap died on April 5, 1932, at Menlo Park, California. He won 37 races, all but one of them in Australia. The other one was the Agualente Handicap in Mexico. Jotting

Sweet Lorraine will be popular with place bettors for her selected race at Oamaru to-day. Never Likely

There was solid backing for Lady Hotspur in the Trial Stakes No. 2 at Oamaru on Wednesday, but she never looked likely. The fact that L. Hare was in the saddle may have accounted for the support accorded to her. Novice Prospect

The Tiderace colt Indiana will only need to reproduce the form he showed at Wingatui to have a chance in the Novice Stakes No. 1 at Oamaru to-day. He is trained by W. P. Hogan, who turned out three winners on Wednesday. In Good Condition

Salmon King, a fresh horse in the Waitaki Handicap, a race confined to apprentice jockeys, looks well and ready to repeat the winning form he showed at the Wyndham meeting. Beau Vitc Colt

Beau Esprit, a newcomer in the first race at Oamaru, is a two-year-old colt by Beau Vite from Doria, by Iliad from Princess Doreen, by Chief Ruler from Dorce, by Lucullus from D’Oro, by All Black from Aurarius, by Maltster. He is one of G. S. Barr’s team.