RACING IN AUSTRALIA

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 87, 9 October 1931, Page 4

RACING IN AUSTRALIA

TO-MORROW'S MEETINGS

Meetings of interest to New Zealanders will be held at Randhriek, Caulfield, Adelaide, and Perth ' to-srriorrow.

At Randwick, the A.J.C. Spring Meeting will be concluded! The events are: —Canonbury Stakes, ! for two-year-olds, fi furlongs; Waveriey Handicap, one mile and three-quarters: Chester Handicap, six furlongs; Dcnvling Steeplechase, about two miles and a;quarter; Randwick Plate, weight-for-age, two miles; Chbborn Stakes, for three-year-olds, one mile; and Final Handicap, one male and a quarter. At Cauliield, the ;Victoria Amateur Turf Club will open its' Cup Meeting, when the principal event is the Caulfield Guineas, one mile, for which Ammon Ra will be a hot favourite. The other firstday races are:—Orby Hurdles, about two miles; Debutante Stakes* for two-year-olds, four furlongs; Caulfield-Stakes, weight-for-age, nine furlongs; Herbert Power Handi.cap,. one. mile and three furlongs; and Toorak Handicap, eighi and a half furlongs. There will be .no middle day (Wednesday) this year, aoid the second and final day will :be to-morrow < week, when the Caulfield Clip will be decjded. ' At Adelaide the principal event on the opening day of the , South Australian J.C.'s' Spring Meeting wrill be the South Australian Derby,'one,male and a half, in which the ; New Zealand-kred Fulinond is engaged. A Dominion-bred horse, Hot Spring, was successful in; the race two years ago. ; At. Perth, the Western Australian Tiirf Club is staging the King's Cup, which is contested in rotation in the .various States of the Commonwealth. The distance is one and: a'half miles. All the acceptors this year except Melanous are trained in the We»t, ieo that there is not the usual interest in the result. Taisho, who was awarded the-maximum (9.5), appears to be the favourite, but two former New Zealanders in Bonny Note and Stealth are also among the fancied division. »