THE CAULFIELD CUP.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IV, Issue 206, 5 July 1894, Page 6

THE CAULFIELD CUP.

This year’s Caulfield Cup handicap is on a lower scale than was the case last year. Then Mr Barnard started with Cremorne 9.13. This year he puts the same racer at the head of the list, but makes 9.10 his starting point. At the weight I do not for a moment consider that the son of Glorious has a chance at scoring. I notice that the Caulfield adjuster makes Cremorne out to be 21b better than Pilot Boy at a mile and a half, and at the Melbourne Cup distance the Glorious gelding is supposed to be 51b inferior to Pilot Boy. However, I think his Caulfield chance can be set down as a badly discounted one. Marvel, 9.7, and Jeweller, 9.5, stand out amongst the top weights, and Paris, 9.4, should be better than Brockleigh, Port Admiral, Patron or Fortunattis. He could not have been

given a pound less than the 9-4 awarded, every ounce of which he has earned. At 9.0 Hova should be better than Culloden or Tarcoola, and although recent Melbourne advices show that the Newmarket handicap winner is under a cloud and that his party have thought it advisable to publish an announcement to the effect that they have not accorded him a shilling’s worth of support, I shall pick him as one of the best probabilities in the handicap. To take an early selection Hova would be my choice. Glenloth’s Melbourne Cup win was what I last week called a muddy fluke, and he cannot be named the superior of Oxide, Sternchaser and Loyalty, who are all within a couple of pounds of him. Concerning Loyalty I consider Mr O’Brien’s representative has been very well treated, and he should be terribly hard to beat. Linbum has dropped out of the engagement, and Lady Trenton deserves all the 8.8 allotted her. Swordbearer has often given backers the go by, but at 8.8 he should have a fair chance of retrieving his name. Of Quality, Moss Rose, Cressy, Warpaint and Sainfoin, the last named should prove the pick. Lower in the list I like Elswick and Little Bernie, and Donizetti is also fairly well in, and the peculiarly named J 5 I have a fancy for. That brings me to the New Zealander, Skirmisher, and surely at 8 1 he has been given a chance. Fit and well the opportunity should be a good one, and if left in after the acceptances I shall certainly support him. Lower down Saracen looks well at 7.13, and at ilb less Tim Swiveller should have a say. The weight is 71b more than his impost of last year, and if in the form that he was in then he must be marked a likely one. The same remarks apply to Bruin, who is at similar weight, and lower down one is inclined to stop at The Captain, Havoc, and Response. If the latter can stay a fast mile and a half, her chance with 7.6 must be a big one.' As the eye glances lower down it lingers on Patroness 7.4. Steadfast 7.3, Gallant and Gerard 7.2, First Shot 6.8, and Chesterman 6.7. At present the best of the top weights appear to be Marvel, Jeweller, Paris, Hova, and Loyalty, and the picked ones of the medium weighted contingent should be Lady Trenton, Sainfoin, Elswick, J 5, and Skirmisher, while of the light weights I prefer Tim Swiveller, Bruin, Response, Patroness, Steadfast,; Gallant, and First Shot.