HIGH CASTE'S EPSOM

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 85, 7 October 1940, Page 12

HIGH CASTE'S EPSOM

DERBY TO PANDECT

EASY WIN FOR BEAU VITE

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)

SYDNEY, October 5.

New Zealand horses were right in the picture on the opening day of the A.J.C. Spring Meeting, held at Randwick In ideal spring weather. '

\An unprecedented incident happened in the Epsom Handicap, when Beaulivre, who was one of the most fancied candidates for years, was suddenly pulled up when in a wluning position a furlong from home. His jockey, D. Munro, explained that he thought Beaulivre had broken dowu irretrievably. (He dismounted at the post. However, Beaulivre walked satisfactorily to the enclosure, and looked quite well. He was later examined by a veterinary surgeon, who reported that "Beatilivre, when cooled off, disclosed. no injury or abnormality." A huge circle of Beaulivre's admirers was chagrined by the untoward happening.

With' Beaulivre out of the way, High Caste ran on to a well-deserved Epsom victory. High Caste stripped thoroughly fit for the Epsom, and left the course quite sound.

The A.J.C. Derby, won by Pandect, saw! Nightbeam unruly at the post, finally twisting the plate on his near foreleg. He had to be j taken back to the saddling paddock, where the plate was adjusted, causing a delay of eighteen minutes in the start of the Derby, in which he ran a great race, but faded out iv tho straight. The time for the race was extremely slow. Beau Vite had an easy victory in the Colin Stephen Stakes, in . which he led over the last mile. .The course was in splendid order, if a trifle soft. The attendance was about 65,000. Results were:— * FIRST HURDLE RACE, £300; about 2 miles. C. Wright's eh g Masterpiece, by High Art —Kennaquette, 7yrs, 10.9 (Young) ... 1 Valhalla, 11.3 (Hyncs) -. 2 Titrol; 9.4 (Wlndle) :: Nine started. Two lengths and a half: ten lengths. Time, 3mln 3TVjsec. Blacklo Miller fell and Mag Mort lost his rider. TRIAL STAKES, £400; V/i. miles. C. J, WHhycorubo's br g Freckles, by El Cacirjuc—Suntint, 4yrs, 8.5 (Gook) 1 Evergreen, 7.12 (Parsons) XVeiled Threat, 7.9 (Morslllo) 3 Eight started. Head; two lengths. Time, 2min S^sec. A.J.C. DERBY, £5000; for three-year-olds; lV'a miles. J. Wren's b c Pandect, by Pantheon—Credit, S.lO (Cook) 1 Lucrative. 8.10 (McCarten) 2 Sun Valley, 8.10 (Breasley) 3 All started. Nightbeam, Fearless Fox, Lucrative, and Tidal Wave led the field at n leisurely pace till the five furlongs, where Pandect rushed to the front, and In an exciting finish up the straight won determinedly by half a length from the fancied Victorian Lucrative, with another Victorian, Sun Valley, three-quarters of a length away third. Tidal Wave was fourth. Niehtbßam, who ran prominently throughout, was fifth. Then came Scientist. Time, 2min STsec. EPSOM HANDICAP. £3000; 1 mile. H. K. Tancred's b h High Caste, by. Bulund-: | shar —The Begum, 4y.rs, 9.5 (Bartlu) .. I j Mildura, 9.4 (McMenamin) .-....• - St. Constant, 8.10 (Coutts) ;i , AH started. Beaulivre looked all over ;i winner approaching the home turn, where'iio was challenged by High Caste, who. closfly 1 attended by Mildurn, overtook Beaulivre ami. I in tin: race to the post, High Caste just won by a neck amid great fxcitenusit. The'excel • i lent time was Imin Gs%s«c. St. Constant, who was running last throughout, staged a brilliant finish to run third, one length and a half behind Mildura. Katanga was fourth, Red Thespian fifth, and then came Mohican. Beaulivre tfas pulled up a fur,long from home. COMN STEPHEN STAKES, £1300; w.f.a.: IV 2 miles. n. Stewart's br h Beau Vite. by Beau Pere : —Dominant, 4yrs, 9.0 (McMeuamln) .. 1 Dashing Cavalier. &'0" (Couffs) 2 I Mosaic, 9.5 (McCarten) .....,.-. t Old Rowley, 9.3 t tDead heat for third. ■ Scr.: St. Constant, Billposter. x Beau Vite took (lie lead af the nine furlongs post. He opened a gap of three lengths and won as he liked by two lengths and a half, with a length between second aud third. Time, , 2min 29sec. ■.:.■••:. :. i KENSINGTON HANDICAP, £500; 7 furlongs.. First Division. : W. A. Ross's eh h Hydra, by BullheadEager Air, 3yrs, S.O (Ward) .1 Novice, S.G (Cook) 2 Bcstop, 8.0 (Parsons) 3 Thirteen started. Length:, one length and a half. Time, Jmiu iMVist'C. Clouston was fourth. Second Division. 11. TiiriibiiH'.s b c Pierce, by I'aiitliuou — Box On. lyrs. S.O (Kuox) .........;.. I Sigli, 5.,) (Muiiro) - Oppurtuuist, S.:i (Coutts) , ;■; Twelve Htai'li-d. Head: one lengtli ami :i hiilf. Ci-ekniomt was ronrtli. Time, linlri I 2filisec, I