RATING OF BERNBOROUGH
MELBOL'KNK. July 22. Tlie Yietorian Racing Ciub's handicapper (Mr. C. H. Davis) Ii'as weighted Bernborough at lO.'h for the iLelbournc Cup, thus rating. him as inferior to Phar Lap, who received 10.10 for the 1931 Cup. The weight carrying record for . the Melbourne Cup is held by Carbiue, wlio won with 10.5 in 1S90. ' ! The Cauliicld Cup, of oue and a half • miles, will be run on October 19 and the Melbourne Cup, of two miles, on Novcniber i. If Bernborough wins the Caulfield Cup he may be rehandicapped up to 101b. for the Melbourne Cup. He has not yet raced beyond 11 furlongs. XText to Bernborough in the Melbourne Cup weights is St. Fairy with 9.2, who finished fourth last year with the siunc weight. The crack New Zealand colt Barwon who with Bernborough is tlie best backed horse for botli races, has been given weight-for-age for a threo-year-old, 7.6 for the Melbourne Cup and 7.8 for the Caulfield Cup. Of tlie 452 horses handic apped for Ihe Melbourne Cup, 224 are weighted at 7.0 or less, and only -17 are asketl to carry 8.0 or more. Fiftv-eight are haudicapped at S.O or more for Ihe! Caulfield Cup.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 July 1946, Page 7
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