THE CAULFIELD CUP.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 12001, 19 October 1906, Page 6

THE CAULFIELD CUP.

BY - ACHILLES. " The Victoria. Amateur Turf Club's Spring Meotiag will be brought to a conclusion to-morrow, wken the Caulfield Cup will bo decided. This event is always looked forward to with great interest by sportsmen in this colony, but more than usual interest will be taken throughout New Zealand in to-morrow s race from the fact that Solution is engaged. Since the daughter of Soult has been in Australia she has started four times, and won on each occasion. Can she add the fifth win to her credit tomorrow? That she may be expected to put up a good race if started is certain, 'jut the Caulfield Cup race so often provides us with sensational surprises that the defeat of the favourites has come to be looked upon as a most likely contingency. Just here, it, may be mentioned that it is 23 years since the first favourite got home in the Cup. Though Solu- . tic-11 is not at present the favourite, it ia pretty safe to say that if she goes to t!ie post she will start at a shorter price than any other of the contestants. There is every prospect of a big field, as thirty horsei still remain in, Solution being the top weight with 9.5 (including 141 b penalty) opposite her name. When she won the Metropolitan, Solution carried 8.2, and cut out the inHe and a half in 2-33 i. It appears tolerably ' safe to say that, providing she gets as good a run in to-morrow's race, she will win, al- ' though she will be carrying 171 b extra. Her toughest opponent may prove to be Poseidon (7.7), who van second 'to her in the Metropolitan. The colt is now meeting Solution on 191 b better terms, and therefore ought to have an excellent chance of turning the, tables on the daughter of Soult. Amongst the others angaged is Melodeon (7.5). If the son of Medallion takes it into his head to callop, ' he should be very dangerous. Booran (6.9), the winner of the Caulfield Guineas, is a colt which has proved himaelf the possessor of a lot of pace, and may run into a place. Another of the light weights with winning form to recommend him is Ellis, a three-year-old son of Hotchkiss and Edith Cureton. Although experience has taught us that tlio favourites generally fiil badly in the big mile and a half handicap-, it appears as if Solution will probably break the 3pell, and land the Caulfield Cup of 1906. The placings may be — 1 SOLUTION 1 POSEIDON 2 BOORAN 3 ELLIS to upset calculations.