TURF ITEMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 10175, 3 December 1894, Page 2

TURF ITEMS.

The Melbourne Herald gave the correct tip for the Melbourne Cup. On Friday it said :—": — " Here is something wortn knowing. There are four caps to be decided. Paris, who won the Caulfield Cup, was No. 1 on the board ; Preston, who won the Moonee Valley Cup, was No. 8 ; and Tridentate, who won the Maribyrnong Cup, was number 9. Placed together these numbers make 189 — . To complete the number of tha present year a 4 is wanted and that number should win the Melbourne Cup." The remarkable coincidence was completed by the victory in the Melbourne Cup of Patron, the fourth horse on, tbo board. Bloomsbury won one hack flat on the second day at Feilding, paying £21 12s, and doing the mile in lmin 44jsec. Gunboat won the other hack race, making tho third win at the meeting. The locnl racers St Laura, Prioress, The Friar, and Thunderbolt were brought home from Feilding on Saturday night. What would have been a serious accident was happily averted at the Foilding meeting on the second day. It appears that the field for the Manchester Handicap had broken away twice in false starts when it was discovered that a flight of hurdles had beon left standing. The obstacle was at once lemoved, and ths field was then despatched on the journey. An instance of the ruling passion being strong at death was exemplified by Elijah Cockroft, the jockey who was hanged at Ballarat on November 12th for the murder of Fanny Mott. While standing on the scaffold and shor Ay before the fatal moment came, ho surprised the officials by asking what horso won the Melbourne Cup.

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