VICTORIA RACING CLUB’S SPRING MEETING.

Kumara Times, Issue 971, 10 November 1879, Page 2

VICTORIA RACING CLUB’S SPRING MEETING.

*xe\v Zealand press association.] Melbourne, November 9. There was a large attendance at llie 2es to-day, Kplendid weather. Marks’ Produce Stakes. 1 w arrow ... ... ... ... 1 stic.i ... ... ... ... 3 Won by a ravl-r. Time, 2mins. .V-'.ees. Y.E-.C. Handicap. 2 Lonp ... ... ... ... 1 dal Wave 2 alinia ... ... ..: ... 3 Won easily. Time, 3mins. i2|secs. Steeplechase. impleton ... ... ... ... 1 unlight ... .;. ... ... 2 Thirteen started. Canterbury Plate. uwarrow ... ... ... ... 1 irst King... .. ... ... 2 Wellington... ... ... .. 3 Won easily by a nock. Time, 4mins. 3isecs. As our cablegrams were meagre as to ae first and second days’ racing of the bebm ia Pacing Club’s Spring Meeting; ’e reprint from files now to hand,ill or particulars of the races that pre2dcd the great event of the meeting : —: Fisrt Day—Saturday, Nov 1. lelrouune Stakes, a sweepstake of 5 so vs. each, with 159 added. For three-year olds. Weight for age. One mile and a quarter. Ir ,T. Wilson's bli First King, o yrs 1 Ir.-E Joliet’s br h Iticlmioud, aged... 2 Ir. G. Fraser’s ch h Le Loup, 5 yrs 3 Sssendon Stakes, of lOsovs., lift, with 150 raided. For three.year olds and upwards. Weight for age. Two' miles.dr. C. M. Lloyd’s bli Swiveller, 5 yrs 1 dr. G. Fraser’s cli li Le Loup, 5 yrs. 2 Footscray Stakes, a sweepstake of 5 so vs., lift, with 100 added. For two-year-olds and upwards. Weight for ago. Cue mile. Mr. A. Iv. Finlay’s br li Toc’al, 6 yrs. 1 Mr. Wentworth’s Otira, who ran a dead heat for second place in the Maribyruong Plate, was trained by Mr. J. Monaghan, who had charge of Mr Delamain’rf string in Fuugawereweie’s Dunedin Cup year. Second Day—Tuesday, Nov. 4. Darling Stakes, a sweepstakes of 5 soys. each, with 100 added. For three-year-olds and upwards. Weight for age. One mile and a half. Mr A, K. Finlay’s br li Tocul 0 yrs ... 1

The following account of the peifirmanees and pedigree of the winner of the Melbourne Cup, which was run on the second day of the races (Tuesday last), may prove interesting to many of our readers :—Damwell ran nine times in the season IS7S-9, starting with a gallop in the race he has now won. Last year with Gst Gibs to carry and Cracknel! as his rider he was nowhere in the Cup, but two days later he won the Spring Handicap, boating two dozen other competitors, and again ridden by Ciaeknell. He was nnsuccessfijjfct his next two efforts, which were in the Handicap for four-year olds and V.R.C. Handicap at the same meeting, though he was second to Columbus in the latter race. His next performance was in the Midsummer Handicap, and the V.R.C. when, with 7st 7M'»s up a,nd KidufT in the saddle, he was not placed. He wad again a winner at the V.R.C. Meeting, when ridden by bis old jockey he won the Brunswick Stakes, beating eighteen others ; but he was beaten a. week later when he started stcoiui favorite for the New Marker. Handicap, making up for it, however, by landing the Three and Four-year old Handicap, which wound up the meeting. For this race lie was ridden by T. Hales.

His only other performance hist year was in the Caul field Cup, when cavrying,V?st I2lb and ridden by Rawlings he "s'as otic of a dozen unplaced ones to !Nemnini Ter, fiyis, Bst 101 b; Levant, ijTRj 7.1 'lb i and Tom Kirk, aged, 9st ; wlio rilled the three first positions in the order named. Barnwell is a very well-bred horse, his pedigree being as follows, by Tim Whiffler (imp) out of Norna, by Conrad (imp) out of Thalia (imp), by Brocket out of Comedy’s dam by Touchstone. Conrad was by Kingston out of Lady Vernon by jPoynton. Norna was bred by Mr Baker in South Australia, and is now Ibe property of Mr J. 0. Inglis, the Victorian gen tleman jockey. Darn well lias been for some time in Mr Dakin’s stable, who has been lucky, when Le Loup was not good enough to win, to find such a second string as the son of Tim Whiffler and Norna.