CAULFIELD CUP.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume III, Issue 150, 8 June 1893, Page 5

CAULFIELD CUP.

The first Monday in June is always a date looked to anxiously by turfites throughout the colonies, because it is the day on which entries for the Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup close. The list of entries for both events appear in another column, and as the Caulfield Cup comes first in order of running I will deal with it first. The 117 entered shows a falling off on last year’s figures of 17, and there are several cracks missing from the list. New Zealand is not directly represented as regards ownership, but we shall have some interest in the doings of Cooya by Nordenfeldt — Radiance; Steadfast by Nordenfeldt—Nelly Moore ; Sternchaser by Nordenfeldt—Crinoline; Culloden by Nordenfeldt—Nelly Moore; Captain Webb by Natator — Fame; Bessie Macarthy by Ingomar—Florence Macarthy; All There by Leolinus —

Lyre ; and Ilinm by Albany—Helena; whose names appear among the entrants, and all of whom were bred in this colony. The weights are due on the 26th inst.