TURF RESULTS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 906, 18 July 1907, Page 7

TURF RESULTS.

VICTORIA RACING CLUB’S GRAND NATIONAL MEETING. STEEPLECHASE DAY. DIVHAM EFFECTS A SURPRISE. The V.R.C. Grand National Meeting was concluded last Saturday at Flemington. The following was the result of the principal event: — THE GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE, a handicap sweepstakes of 20sovs each, with 1500sovs added; the owner of the second horse to receive SOOsovs, and the owner of the third 150sovs out of the stake. About three miles and a furlong Mr. G. Hodgkinson’s br g Divham, aged, by Hamilton —Diva, 10.5 (Ray) 1 Mr. H. Kelly’s br g Maine, aged, by Mainsail —-Bangor, 9.0 (A. Williamson) 2 Mr. G. Mawley’s b g Boomerang, 6yrs, by Firelock —Vindictive, 10.3 (Deeble) 3 Sixteen horses started. Betting: 8 to 1 against Decoration, Cardinal, Boisdale and Boomerang, 10 to 1 Bellis and Danjuiro, 16 to 1 Swimmer, 20 to 1 Divham, 33 to 1 Maine. From a fair start The Trick was best away from Swimmer, Cardinal , and Springfield Cardinal lost his rider at the first fence, and Swimmer fell. The Trick was headed by Divham at the abattoirs, where Decoration fell, and at the sixth fence Western came down. At the second fence in the straight The Trick came to grief, which gave Divham the lead, and he led over the treble and past the stand from Boomerang and Warfield, after whom came Danjuiro and Boomerang, with Boisdale nearest of the others. Divham was .•still in the van as they swept past the sheds, where Seymour fell. Divham landed into the straight with several lengths" lead from Springfield, then •came Maine, Boomerang, Bellis, Danjuiro and Mayo. In the run home Divham easily held his own and won by six lengths. Time, 6m. 36%5. The Victorian Grand National Steeplechase winner, Divham, competed unsuccessfully in the same race last year, when Decoration won. His only successes during last season were at Mentone and Williamston. Realm, winner of the Hurdles at the lastnamed place, afterwards won the Grand National Hurdles, and it is singular that a year later Divham should be successful in the Grand National Steeplechase. At Mooney Valley, on June 29th, Divham (a name made by •conjoining parts of the names of the sire and dam) won the Steeplechase, but was disqualified for running inside a post. Divham, a country-bred horse, is trained by his owner, and was sired by Hamilton, a South Australian-bred horse, by Richmond —Success, who was raced by James Scobie, the well-known Ballarat trainer. Hamilton was full brother to Prosperity, a successful performer in South Australia, and dam of winners.