RANDWICK WINNERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 693, 19 June 1929, Page 12

RANDWICK WINNERS

KELSO LEADING TRAINER TOOK MELBOURNE CUP The honour of preparing the greatest number of winners at Randwick for the season rests with W. Kelso. D. Lewis was runner-up. Meetings at Xew South Wales headquarters concluded on June 15. and the track will now be prepared for the spring racKelso’s horses won 13 races there in | the season. On one occasion he produced three on the same day—Fondant. Bacchus and Spruiker succeeding on the fourth day of the spring meeting last year Fondant won another race later, and Bacchus continued to show his form at the meetings in 'Melbourne. The trainer had two horses to win I three races each, Loquacious preceding her success in the Adrian Knox Stakes by dead-heating for first in a Novice Handicap, and winning a three-year-old handicap and Inducement winning a Novice Handicap, the James Barnes Stakes, and the Winter Stakes. Kelso’s remaining representatives to win were Gleaner, a two-year-old. and Statesman. who presaged his win in the Melbourne Cup by winning the Sydney Handicap with ease. Lewis did not achieve such success, numerically, as his rival, but he takes pride of place if stake winnings are consdered. Kelso’s 13 wins returned a little more than £B,OOO, but the amount credited to horses prepared by Lewis is more than £9,000. His principal winner was Crucis, who proved too good for his opponents in the Sydney Cup With the exception of the two-year-old Malayan, who won a race and dead-heated for first in another, the wins came singly, the successful horses being Resource, Comanche. Lipari, Gay Gordon. Racksa, and Coercion. The two-year-old Comanche was very consistent. He had five starts, winning the Canonbury Stakes, and finishing second in the Sires Produce Stakes, the Champagne Stakes, and one other race. George Price won eight races, two each with Jocelyn and Whitta, and one each with Reonui. Ramulus. Gesto. and Casque d’Or. The Metropolitan and the Villiers Stakes were included in the ’-bag.” The New Zealander, F. D. Jones, was credited with six wins, including one dead-heat, and B. R. Payten had five.