The Sydney Cup Wasn't a Race

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 335, 21 April 1928, Page 6

The Sydney Cup Wasn't a Race

Whenever a horse wins a race there are a hundred-and-one hard luck stories to be told, but in connection with yesterday’s Sydney Cup there is one of the hardest of all. Associated with horses for many years as an owner, and a member of the firm of Chisholm and Co., the late Mr. Harry Chisholf never had the satisfaction of seeing his colours carried to victory in a decent .race. Midlothian, a moderate at best, was the mosts successful of all the horses he raced. Yet Winalot, who in Mr. Chisholm’s lifetime w v on only one race, later developed brilliant form, and in the Sydney Cup put up one of the mosts stsarting performances over two miles racing men have seen. WORN-OUT HACKS As racegoers say, he had the Sydney Cup won at any stage of the race, and over the final couple of furlongs he made the opposition look like wornout hacks, simply cantering away from the other runners, to win in the easiest fashion by three and a-half lengths, with the remainder of the runners floundering in his wake. It was a performance which suggested that, mud or no mud, Trivalve would have had a real horse’s task to beat the Sydney colt in the St. Leger. Winalot in successive starts has won the Warwick Farm Autumn Cup (£888), the St. Leger (£2,460), and the Sydney Cup (£4,871), so in stake money alone he has collected £8,319 in three runs. But his present owner, Mr. E. K. White, is a particularly good bettor when he fancies a horse, and his betting wins over Winalot are likely to make even that sum look paltry. ALWAYS HANDY * Easter Monday’s was an uninteresting Cup for anyone who did not baefc Winalot Nqtliing ever looked like having a. chance with him. He was always well placed, and Toohey kept him near the leaders until the home turn was reached. He let Winalot go then, and he quickly got on terms with Tangible, and. running to tne front in the straight, he soon had the race at his mercy. A furlong from home Toohey pushed him along, and after that it was no race. Tangible stuck it out well, and beat Strongbow by half a lengtn, while Winalot’s Leger rival, Jocelyn, was a close fourth. Winalot was trainer Joe C ook s second winner. He had scored with the favourite, Mendit, in the Steeplechase, the race previously, so as Winalot was best backed for the Cup. the day’s work must have been profitable. Tooliey. who rode Winalot, had won the Flying on Greenline earlier in tlm day and later on kicked Vallir.o home m the last rarp