SOULTLINE, SOLUTION AND ABORIGINE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1245, 26 February 1914, Page 11

SOULTLINE, SOLUTION AND ABORIGINE.

New Zealanders, and Aucklanders in particular, will find much to interest them in the following:—A Calcutta paper, forwarded by a friend in India to “Pilot” of the “Referee” contains an account of the Governor’s Cup (10,,000rs and a cup value IOOOrs to the winner), 1 mile 5 furlongs 58 yards, run in Calcutta on the 16th of last month. There were only seven starters, and odds of 6 to 4 “on” Shining Way, with Jacamar and Keerit (late Aborigipe) next in demand at 6 to 1. The result was all against backers, as the English-bred gelding Matchlock, 7.7 (26 to 1 against on the totalisator, and 20 to 1 with the bookmakers) won nicely from Milliner 8.6, with Shining Way 8.2 and Valerius 7.13 a dead-heat for third. Aborigine (now Keerit) 8.8 was badly beaten, as was Jacamar, who, as he only carried 7.13, is evidently a long way from being as good as when in Australia. The big race, the Metropolitan (10,000 rs to the winner), 6 furlongs, was disposed of the same day, and the top-weight, the English-bred gelding Primrose Morn

(9.9) won easily from Watch Tower in Imin 14sec. The old New Zealand gelding Soultline (7.7) was third, and on the place “tote” paid at the rate of 4 to 1. Matchlock and Primrose Morn are owned by Mr. M. Goculdas, who won with Solution and (both Australians} the same afternoon. May Kenley, well known to patrons of the Sydney pony meetings, won the New Plate (14.2), and was so little fancied that in a field of ten her totalisator dividend was at the rate of 25% to 1, though in the ring her starting price was 10 tol.