ONKAPARINGA RACES

Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 48

ONKAPARINGA RACES

The important Onkaparinga lUcing Cluo meeting in South Australia took 'place on Easter Monday, and. w*g as gisaA A aucvtss as

ever The attendance wa3 close on 20,000, a.i'l £22,417 passed through the totalisator, being £355 more than last year. It was quite expected that Melbourne horses would take the jumping double, but, as it happened, they missed both Hurdles and Steeple, but three of the flat races came this way through Combat, Carinthia, and Gardiner. The Great Eastern Steeplechase, run over three miles and a-quarter, was worth £1100, and the local horses Ronald 10.0 and Regent 9.13, who are stable mates (both being trained by S. Ferry) fought out the finish, Ronald winning by a neck. He is owned by Mr John Lord, and was sired by Nicholas. The previous form of Ronald was only moderate. Out of a total of £4343, £270 only was on him, and he paid a dividend of £14 17s. The favourite, the Messrs Manifold's Sindhia 11.3, carried £1217, and finished a moderate third. Chelsea, despite his 13.0, was a good second favourite. The Caulfield Grand National winner was ridden by M. Mooney, who has been out of luck of late. Chelsea, when going well in the last round, struck the stone wall (a kind of obstacle to which he has always had a great objection), and having broken a leg, was destroyed. He was owned by Colonel Campbell, of Melbourne, and won some good races for him, though lately he has been an expensive animal to follow. The Onkaparinga Cup, 500sovs, one mile and three furlongs, was taken by the top weight (Combat 9.7), ridden by the Melbourne jockey, W. Burn, who figured so prominently in the inquiry into a charge of foul riding in the last Australian Cup. The son of Carnage was favourite, paying a dividend of £4 Op. He won very nicely from Lord Kitchener 7.5 and Lome 6.12. while Patronus 8.4, who yas a, strong Melbourne fancy, ran another of his bad races. Sydney 9.0, a four-year-old Lochiel gelding that had never previously run in a jumping event, took the Hurdle Race, with the favourites Holkar 10.11 and Lord Roberts 10.12 following him home. Sydney paid a dividend of £19 12s. The Trial Stakes, seven and a-half furlongs, went to the two-year-old Mount Lofty, who is by the Australian Cup winner, Broken Hill ; while Chelsea's stable companion, Carinthia 9.0, ridden by Burn, scored an easy win in the Hills Railway- Stakes. The distance was only five furlongs, and the daughter of Gossoon can fly over a journey like this. Albury King, by Albury, won the Amateur Steeplechase, and Gardner, by Ma'.ua, carried Mr Eli Jellett's colours successfully in the Disposal Stakes.