WIN FOR MOSAIC

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 256, 30 October 1939, Page 4

WIN FOR MOSAIC

Record Time in W. S. Cox Plate | GILLTOWN’S MOONEE VALLEY CUP S BEAU VITE FALLS DURING RACE Received Oct. 29, 7.5 p.m. MELBOURNE, Oct. 29. In the thrilling linish of the Moonee 5 Valley Cup Gilllown just stalled ofi • the fast-finishing L’Aigjon, Rivctte, ■ who was last cui.iy, Jost no Melbourne i Cup friends by running an excellent > third. Ortellc’s Star was a good • fourth. Pantoon ran a poor race. Gilltown’s 2.12 i was the course recoro and only A of a sec. outside the Australasian record. Mosaic finished brilliantly to set. a course record in the W. S. Cox Plate. > Gold Salute looked a winner a furlong from home but. was unable to < withstand Mosaic’s run. He was not disgraced. Reading ran a fair third. > Beau Vite was going extra, well when ’ he fell three furlongs from home. He i would have taken part in the finish. High Caste 10.->t his change through interference when Beau Vite fed. I Catalogue Jailed and would be better suited in a handicap over a longer journey. Beau Vite was not injured as a result of his fall. His jockey, W. Cook, escaped with facial abrasions. ; Rumours that Gold Salute was ; suffering from colic were circulated yesterday. His trainer. W. Shean. .stated that, the colt was slightly oft colour on Saturday morning bu| recovered quickly. In the circumstances the colt's effort in the Cox Plate was excellent. Te Hero's Melbourne debut was inglorious. He was troublesome prior to 1 the start of the Dundonald Handicap and refused to leave the barrier unth the field had travelled three furiongs. ; The weather was fine and warm and there was an enormous attendance. Results are - - Moonee \ alley Cup. (Of £3000; 1 mile 5 fur.) GILLTOWN, H*. Hughes . 1 ILON, D. Munro 2 RIVETTE. E. Preston .... 3 Half a head. Three-quarters of a length. Time, 2.42 L W. S. C > Plate. 'Of £1000; 9i furlongs’. MOSAIC (Posterity - Inlaid), D. Munro I GOLD SALUTE. F. Shean . . 2 READING, A. Knox .3 Length; two and a-half lengths. Time, 1.56 a course record. AUCKLAND POINTERS CHANCES GF HURDLERS ' MHA NGAKEI PROSPECTS (Special to “Chronicle.".’ AUCKLAND, Oct. 28. The Hawera-trained gelding Disturbed is one of those entered lor the hurdle races at the second Avondale spring meeting, which opens next Saturday week. The nominations in u this class arc much better I han usual, but about half of the entrants have 9 yet to make their jumping debut. ( Worthy of passing comment in this C class is Knight of Australia, who ran 1 a fine race at Ellerslie recently, setting a very fast, pace out in front for z over a mile, after which he was ' beaten off. On that showing he will ' take some beating in his coming on- h gagemcnls over the slicks. He is a , fine stayer and his fencing is improving. Lapidarian was taken to Ihr Waikato Hunt fixture al Cambridge on Labour Day and then could not start. The conditions of the hurdle race there made it. open only to hacks at time of starting, and this gelding’s big surprise \lin at Ellerslie put him out of that grade in the one success. It was a pity that Valerian was *! badly left, in the open .sprint at Cambridge, for hp was such a fine two- _ year-old, and had shown pace at ,) Ellerslie a fortnight ago, that he was regarded as having prospects. He is 1 still handily placed among the ranks h of the hack sprinters and he will have a chance to show that he is good when he is produced at. Whangarei. j Deanna Durbin has had only one > race, that being on the second day at . Avondale six weeks ago when she was ? L badly left. She is among those under ‘ , orders for Whangarei. her engage- . ments being in the maiden races open r . to all ages. If she has settled down • . in the intervening period she will have J C a first-rate chance of getting on the f [ winning list, although with a big field r and a. short five-furlongs scamper she J will have to be on her best behaviour. , i i Phaleron Bay Youngsters. j i If was a coincidence that the two I best sprints at Ellerslie early this J week should have been registered by r two-year-olds, Phaleron taking the j honours over three furlongs and Ched- 1 dington over a half-mile. The former ’ has come on. fast since his race in the r two-year-old event at Ellerslie and he .1 ■ looks like being a winner any time - 1 now. Like the Trentham winners, he J - is going to be a good advertisement • for Phaleron Bay as a sire. Chedding- I • ton is also by Phaleron Bay, but he is v ■ not entered for Avondale next month, r • and Phaleron is in both days. c , The defection of Sly Fox from the r New Zealand Cup came as a surprise c to northerners after his good form at £ Avondale and Ellerslie. It is probable r trat he will return north next month D to fulfil engagements at the second t Avondale fixture if he is all right. He e seems to like the Ellerslie course, and after racing at Avondale he will probably take part in the Auckland midspring and summer fixtures, for the 1 stake money throughout is good. Fly f Fox ran two thirds at the last AuckJ land mooting and he was not lucky either time. Brazilian at Whangarei. I At the Whangarei meeting last ■ autumn both open sprint events were . won by the Australian-bred Brazilian, ■ and this form suggested that he would , follow it up with further successes. ■ However, he has failed repeatedly, and • at Ellerslie last. Monday week he bled ■ and was pulled up. This trouble has previously been noticed. The gelding showed no ill-effects in his subsequent track work and if he goes on all right |

he will be sent to Whangarei next week in an endeavour to repeat his previous dual performance. With only one pound above the minimum he is j nicely placed, even if the class on this occasion is a big advance. Four dangerous opponents may be other Takanini representatives: Bronwen, Maxam, Anion and Bachlor King, al- s though the last-named has also been I: entered for the hurdle races. r