MELBOURNE CUP
RIVETTE’S PROSPECTS
PERFORMANCE PRAISED CAULFIELD VICTORY (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Tress Assn.) (Reed. Oct. 23. 1.50 p.m ) SYDNEY, Oct. 23. The Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald states that Rivette won the Caulfield Cup so well as to indicate that she has excellent prospects of winning the Melbourne Cup in which site is handicapped at Gst. 131 b. On Saturday she carried 7.2 and, even with a 101 b. penalty which she has been given, she will carry only 7! b. more than the weight with which she administered a trouncing to the Caulfield Cup field. There were one or two hard luck stories after the Caulfield Cup but nothing occurred that could detract from Rivettc’s performance. The Melbourne correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that the unluckiest horse of the Caulfield Cup was Respirator. He dropped back to last and was still there five furlongs from the post. Then he threaded his way through the field and was rapidly overtaking the leaders in the last half furlong, but il was too late.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20076, 24 October 1939, Page 7
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175MELBOURNE CUP Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20076, 24 October 1939, Page 7
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