AUSTRALIAN.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2674, 1 November 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

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[special to the press association.] Received November Ist, 2.20 p.m. MELBOURNE, November 1.

There was a very largo attendance at Tattersall’s last night, and tho ring appeared in much hotter spirits than they have been in since the Derby was runThe victory of The Assyrian saved them very had hooks on the double, as Navigator had been taken very largely by the public in doubles with most of the Cup favorites. The starting price of The Assyrian was 100 to 3. The colt is [owned by Mr Allison, of Adelaide, theatrical agent, and Bamfield, an Adelaide bookmaker. They win .£BOOO by his victory. Jones, a stockbroker of Ballarat, backed The Assyrian to win .£2OOO, and Allen and Josephs, of Melbourne, each laid him in a double with Navigator for .£IOOO each. There

are no very large winners amongst the ring, and, I taken throughout, tho public have had the best of tho betting, the ring being hit in eleven out of twelve events. The public were generally disappointed about the performance of Sweet William, Little Jack, Mistaken, and Sting, all of whom were held in very heavy doubles with Navigator, and appeared so good that very little was laid off in doubles under .£IOOO. They wore also extensively held, hut most of the money was laid off by the small investors as soon as they got one leg in. Nothing has transpired as to the dividends in the totalisators, hut they must have been large; nor has any announcement been made as to where tho prizes in the big consultations have gone.