BEAU VITE BACK

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 117, 14 November 1939, Page 11

BEAU VITE BACK

RACE IN MELBOURNE tUP

After a three-months'' campaign .in Australia, the Trentham trainer •: T. R. George arrived back^ yesterday with Beau Vite. Beau Vite won two races, on the trip, at the Canterbury Park: and Hawkesbury meetings, andi according to George, he was.very unlucky not torhaye succeeded in otiier events, particularly v in the Caulfield .Stakes;-.. ■ '.y^h^- "--:" :r:v;Vv-c-i-au'-k

George was also very satisfied with the race that Beau-Vite ran in the Melbourne Gup, in ; which he might with any -luck have'ffinished/in the money. A photograph at .the beginning of the, last furlong shQws the .jcolt on the rail and. a full head in frontof Riyette,. but'^^ then' h tired after havlng';been:'-us^(i;'"^':itt' Jgettrng there, and finished; eighth,> rab6ut weight lengths-.from:the• winner, .^ :.\-:

• Beau Vite made the'return trip jwell, but lie is st shade light and -is;.tp "have an easy time for' the next week- or. so. All going saitisfactofily, he r will be taken to' Ellerslie at Christmas fdr the King's Plate, G.N. Derby, and Clifford Plate, so^ that tie will have the' Opportunity of meeting his old rival, ! Beaulivre, an encounter tiiat will create ■great-interest.1 ''''."■'■'•'. v'V---.-. \.-.l'y:'..-,":^';':';

George mehtiohs that the price- of 10,000 guineas reported paid for the New-^-Zealand colt Gold Salute was made up mainly of contingencies that' did not eventuate. The actual cash; price was only, 3800 guineas, with another iOOO guineas out of each Derby and the balance ; from ; ,the Melbourne Cup, none;of which events was won.