DIVIDEND SENSATION

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1933, Page 10

DIVIDEND SENSATION

OUTSIDER AT MOTUKARARA

(Special to the "Evening Post.") CHRISTCHUKCH, This Day. A sensational dividend of over three centuries was paid on the win machine at the Banks Peninsula Baeing Club's Spring Meeting at Motukarara on- Saturday when Sibella came homo at th« head of the Halswell Hack Handicap. It was in a field too of "only eight runners. There we.ro only two 10s tickets oai Sibella on the win machine and 25 on the place machine. Neither her owner (Mr. H. A. Knight) nor tho trainer (F. D. Jones) backed the horse fora win, but Jones had a 10s ticket on the place machine, which he shared with tho apprentice (H. Mackinnon) who rode the horse. All that is known about tho holders of the winning ticket is that one was an elderly man. Sibella, who caused the sensation, is a four-year-old maro who was having her first race. She is a bay by Silverado (the siro of Silver Scorn) from the Nassau mare Zaragoza, a smart performer herself and a half-sister as well to the Auckland Cup winner Malaga, and to Paquito, who finished second in Nightmarch's Melbourne Cup. She was bred by Mr. Knight, who only recentlynamed her.

■ Sibclla's is not tho only big dividend to have been returned recently in the Dominion. At Avondale just over a fortnight ago Versant was a winner.at over the double century straight-out. The record dividend returned in a galloping event in New. Zealand is Ephialtcs's £!500 odd at. Carterton-threo years ago. Tho hurdler Karamu paid £400 odd at Avondalo in 1924, and that was the previous best. The trotting sport has the honour of the . biggest dividend yet paid in the Dominion, tho solitary supporter of Wairoa Belle at. Nelson in 1920 receiving a dividend of £1033 odd. -