SOME HAD ROUGH RIDE

Chronicle (Levin), 2 November 1949, Page 5

SOME HAD ROUGH RIDE

(N.Z.P.A

. — Reuter,

Inquiry Folhws Running Of ! Melbourne Cop

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Received Wednesday, 10.50 a.m. 1 SYDNEY, Noy. 2. ' ! The- turf editor of the Sydney ! Moriiing Herald says that' while ! • Foxzami, perfectly ridden by W. | ! Fellows, had a smooth run and was ! j handy to the xead all through the. ! ; Melbourne Cup, other horses, in- | 1 cluding Benvolo, Vagabond, Better Law, Delta, Comic Court, Sanctus^ ! bashing Beau and Playboy, found j iu a fairly rough race. ' Vagabond was interfered with [ when forced on to the heels of St. | Razzle at' the seven furlongs- knd j a most went on to its nose. An in- ; quiry has been opened by the stew- ! ards on this and other incidents.' • The Sydney Telegraph's corre- } spondent comments that Benvoio j was the uhlucky horse of the race and that he may have won had he escaped interference between the five and four furlongs. Benvolo finished very fast in third place, a length and a half and a long neck behind the leaders. He would have been second in a few more strides. A mile from home, continues the correspondent, he w;as travelling comfortably in sixth place, but when Comic Court fell back slightly Benvolo suddenly lost ground. Jockey Williams said that he lost more th'an a length and was thrown right out of his stride. He was well back into the straight, but made up four lengths in the last furlong. Writing in the Telegraph, Mr. J. O'Brien says that the stewards questioned eight jockeys concerning the roughly run cup and adjourned the inquiry until tomor- • row. (The report of the cup race appears on page 7.)