No Big Winners on Randwick Double
GWILLIAN G’S SUCCESS OWNER WAS NOT CONFIDENT As tlie owner didn’t believe that Gwillian G. would stay the two miles to win the Sydney Cup. even on the day of the race, but merely hoped for victory, it is not surprising that prior to the commencement of her winning sequence that began on April 5, she stood at odds to about a century for the big race. Even after her first win at Eosehill on April 5, when she beat Happy New by only half a head in a liosehili raceover a mile and a-half, she was still at good double figures for the Cup. It was her runaway victory a week later, on April 12, in the Warwick Farm Cup, that she brought her Cup chance into general favour, and most books brought her price down to the odds obtaining when White Fang scored at Avondale on Wednesday. That was the price on the day of the race on the course so that obviously she was not the medium of big betting plunges. There were in fact no big winners on the Doncaster and Cup double, nor
the cjtstraightout this year w was d generally among m back iwrses for sums of trorS*** to £I.OOO. Consequently, at JL* there were many who collect*,?*?*; sums from the books, - parcels depleting the note the Leviathans. vM Venetian Lady Not Overlook I That Venetian Lady, the Don*, winner, though she started at a* in the vicinity of a quarter of : tury. was not neglected i n was shown by the fact that on® nent tielder laid £12,000 Donrastor and Cup winning Venetian Lady and Gwillian q another bookmaker's liability pair amounted to £B,OOO. U There were some hard-luck *» M .ibout losses by narrow margin* double. °*6 V A prominent city bookmaker v H the double. High Disdain and C»ti* G., for £B,OOO. Another punter* £5,000 about the pair. High rv-V* was beaten by a length, but leg won. > It is int.-restins to recall thu ~ Hi double. High Disdain and GwinTL I*- 1 *- stood at 8,000 to I in J. Hacked a low weeks before the Done* Uultimately it came to a hundred
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 962, 3 May 1930, Page 14
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366No Big Winners on Randwick Double Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 962, 3 May 1930, Page 14
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