THE MELBOURNE CUP.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 63, 5 November 1885, Page 2

THE MELBOURNE CUP.

WON BY SHEET ANCHOR.

THE FASTEST TIME ON EECORD.

[heUTEBS TEiKGBAMS.] Melboubke, November 3. Melbourne Cup, 2 miles. Mr Loughlin's Sheet Anchor . r.™l Mr Reid's Grace Darling . . . . 2 Mr O'Brien's Trenton . .'. i ,\&f 9 The other starters were Acolyte, Bosworth, Blink Bonny,' Sntißner, Brown and Rose, Cerlstf anW&tfe, First Chester, Coriolanus, Cyloptr, Despot, HilltdpjDunlo^^KjtlNubfcles, Liverpool, Lgsbia,. ILoid Exeter, No'-v-^ denfeldt, Lord Wilton, Mfi^ o Minervajl!|^' Plausible, St. John, .Prometheus, fit. Lawrence, Storaoway," Thunderbolt, Tom Brown, .Win^, .Velocipede, Warwick, and Yellow Hammer,' „ • The field got away wjth.^eple^djd start, Liverpool, Brown-^aad^Eoie, Arsenal, and St. Jpjin, / being_qufcßSt on their, legs. Passing Vthft^fefnd, Prometheus,~First-6hester, Thunderbolt,, and Trenton maintained the front rank, Liverpool lying^aßdutf Seventh, and going very strongly,; j, A$ Jo&tyt neared the bridge over&e Saifaiiftt&r river, at the baxsk o^'the co^rs^i iSverpool went through 'his Hor^eßf^ig^t^L past the scraping -shed,-f6lktired by Nordenfeldt, Treaton/ GK^el)arlfn|, and Sheet Anchor; in the prqer napc^, but as the field swept round tie hone turn into the straight liverftstfF j d&d away to nothing, andj^eet 4gifh£r took command of the runnings Trenton coming rVery f fist on th© 'ou&de^LtinVl lying third. A magni^cent^raoejensued from the distance p^^&omet between Trenton, N6Vdenfeldt] q Darling, . and. Sheet AiicherViDut the last named held his own gatnelj'io the finish,, distancing Gx^ : Jt)ft|ling by half a length, the same ;inssEyal separating the second and third hotses, Trenton coming very iatji at'th^fjdi&h. Then followed Nordenfeld^LiverpooL and Brown and Hose 'all m> aJbtMch. The time, 3m|n^9|^Bd^ was'^¥astest on record for! the M^lboQfnffii^ap by one and a quarter The betting at the pest jrasras fc^|if i^Nordenfeldt:& to I, ' Trentoi 'and Pe?pot 8 to 1 , Liyerpool 10. to' ly 'Sheet Anchor, Grjsjce' D^b^'Jan^J^wn and Rose 16 to 1, Aco|yie anaiKit Nubbles 20 to 1, others 25 to 59 to 1. The New Zea^^harM^yJip^l, whose chance 1 At one lime "was ditueh fancied, wpuld not gallop 'a JJrarft^-a'nd never showed prominently^ juierac^ while Trenton>- covered bimsellswith glory by the' part he took Ip fl^e^tremendous struggle, and. unier^great difficulties. The victory is a good one for the Ballarat divißion^ibe^wfiSr of Sheet Anchor winning and Carrigan £7,000. The victory proved Sheet Anchor, who is ')Hi '[&. biirrdle racer r to h^ :^''gt^. :^^Sv^^ there been a coupleof nioie T ßtrMeß to go both Trenton, and Grace 7 , Darling must have beaten hiipj [fbos^bjßiflg the first time that Mick O'Brien< has pilo^i^ home, the wiMej ln pf a bourne Cup, he , was hearmy Cfiopgratulated for his excellent dispija^ o{ jopk•yship. "J. Williams, who had'the mount on Grace Darling, <rode splendidly. The punishment Teuton received in the race #a» o sdmething terrible:' Noriehfeldt was, Well placed throughout the. race, a^ul finisliea '^rith remarkable gameness ponside^^ his ieavy import. „The %^ §s^s^cond andi a quarter 'faster! than Miirtdni Henry's 1888 Oopi Which until now was the fastest on record-. White's stables £s delighted with Nbrdenleidt's performanoe. Nordenfeldt etofWidat jMio Trenton I(K|- iffl&yTh* ring have been bard hit By S^tr