CAPRIS'S CAREER

Evening Star, Issue 22464, 8 October 1936, Page 11

CAPRIS'S CAREER

Capris, winner of the Epsom Handicap lost Saturday, was a very promising youngster as a two-year-oW in the Dominion, for in three starts she was third, then second, and then first. At the Auckland Easter Meeting she was second to Lady Kyra in the Onslow Stakes on the first day, and won the Victoria Handicap on the second day. when Lady Kyra was unplaced. She then ran in the colours of her breeder, Mr C. M. Emanuel, who bought her grandam, Duchess Eudorus, in Sydney after she had won a small race there, but found her an expensive investment as a race proposition, though she later made good when put to the stud.

At the close of her short two-year-old career Capris was sent across to Sydney, and she quickly struck form winning the Three and Four-year-old Handicap at City Tatters,all’s Meeting at Randwick from High, who conceded 71b. Then she won the Highweight Handicap (1m) at the Christmas Meeting at Randwick, heating Dromos, and at Tnttersall’s Meeting she won the New Year’s Gift (7f). carrying 8.13, and running the seven furlongs in Imin 24sec. That form induced Mr Alan Cooper to buy her on the eve of the Adrian Knox Stakes . She started at odds on, but her brilliance was matched by the doggedness of Limyris, who boat her in a great finish. In Melbourne .she' won the Stanley Plate for her new owner. Last season Capris won in three States, at Moonee valley over six furlongs. at Ascot (N.S.W.) over a similar distance, and in Brisbane, where she won the Stradbroko Handicap (Gf) and finished third in the Doombcn

Cup (l}m). She was unplaced in Melbourne in the Leonard Stakes with 7.5. the Bourke Handicap with. 8.4, and the Newmarket Handicap with 8.13. This season, racing in the joint interests of Messrs A. and H. Cooper, the latter being her trainer, she indicated a return to form by finishing fast from behind to secure fourth place in the Camellia Stakes at Rosehul a fortnight prior to the Epsom, and on the strength of that run she was backed by her connections for Saturday’s race.