M. M CCARTEN ON TOP
G. PRICE LEADING TRAINER
SYDNEY, July 30,
The Sydney jockeys' premiership re-1 suited in a win for the former New Zealander, M. McCarten, with 87 wins and two dead heats. W. Lappin was second with 85 wins and four dead heats, and E. McMenamin was third with 84 wins and three dead heats. Then come D. Munro 74 wins, .two dead heats; E. Bartle 66 wins, three dead heats.
McCarten and Lappin were" equal till the .last race at Moorefield, in which ; McCarten roae the winner. Lappin had no mount.
For years McCarten has been among the leaders.at the end of the season, but this is his first win in nineteen seasons in Australia. He is also the first jockey to have been the leading rider in both New Zealand and Australia. .
G. Price, another former New Zealander, heads the list of trainers with 29 firsts, and then follow B. Pay ton 26 firsts, one dead heat; C. Russell 25 firsts, one dead heat; F. Cush 22 [firsts, two dead heats. J. T. Jamieson, with 14 firsts and one dead heat, was eleventh.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 26, 31 July 1939, Page 11
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