Many Champions Among Winners
'ROYAL CHIEF’S RECORD The Canterbury Cup, the feature event on the card for the concluding day at Riccarton next Saturday, was first run in 1866, when the distance was three miles, and the list of winners includes the names of such outstanding gallopers as Multiform, Sir Modred, Cruciform, Martian, Noctiform, Reputation, Warstep, Amythas, Gold Light, Limerick, Nightmarch, Silver Scorn, Cuddle, Defaulter, Royal Chief, and Kindergarten, while Golden Souvenir and Soneri shared winning honours last season.
Horses who have won the race two years in succession are Peerless (1870 and 1871), Lurline (1872 and 1873), Welcome Jack (1883 and 1884), Multiform (1897 and 1898), Royal Chief (1939 and 1940), and Kindergarten (1942 and 1943).
Since 1933, the distance of the race has been a mile and a-half and the record since it has been raced over that distance is held by Royal Chief at 2min 31sec.
With weight-for-age conditions attached to the race, the public usually have little difficulty in selecting the favourite, and Saturday’s race looks like being “the Beau le Havre Stakes.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26633, 2 December 1947, Page 8
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177Many Champions Among Winners Otago Daily Times, Issue 26633, 2 December 1947, Page 8
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