FORTUNES WON.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3339, 18 November 1919, Page 6

FORTUNES WON.

HOW’ ARTILLERYMAN HIT THE RING. '

OVER £300,000 TAKEN OUT,

i P. Heywood, trainer of Artillerynian, I before the race, Wll3 condemned all the [Week for not giving ‘the colt. enough ’work. It was suggested that if he had been gailoping more freely he would ihave won the Derby, but after that race Heywood was strongly of the opinion that the horse was very nearly, if not quite, at the top of his form for the classic event. {He conceded that the gallop would probably do the colt good. i i

.It is pretty certain, however, that other reasons for Artillm'yllian’s dcfeat in the Derby will have to be found, and may be the smack with a whip which he got in the finishing stages of that race may have had a greater effect than was believed at the time. His ‘achievement was one of the greatest in the history of the Cup, as he dcmoralised ‘:1 good field in record time.

The pre-conceived notion expressed by recognised judges "that the three-year-olds were a poor lot was totally upset by the result of the Cup, for horses of that age finished first and second. It was very h'a.l'd to distinguish What was in front rounding the turn, for everything within hitting distance tried to get 3. position simultaneously. ‘Some of them in the process carried others out with them, and the consequence was that Artilleryman got a beautiful run on the nails. If the opening had been made to order, it could not have been a better one. Another horse to take -advantage of it was Lucknow, who followed in behind Al-tillerynlan.

KISSED BY A BIAN. The coolest nvau 011 the course after the race was Lewis, the veteran jockey; who rode the wi{lllel'. Some of the winner’s supporters were extra-

vagant in their clelig'nt, and perhaps for the first time in his life Lewis was kissed by :1 man. He did, not appear to like it much either. I Sydney race goeris ‘were probab‘-l«_y 3 surprised to see Two Blues finish third in the fastest Cup -on record. but obviously Two Blues has improved with ‘age, and, -as sometimes happens, the change to aznewe climate (from New South Wales to Tasmania) has improved him out of Sight. All the same. those in :1 position to see were Very-snrprise(l to find that he hatl been placed thircl, There was very little between the t-.l:ree—Chrome, LueknoW_. gandja '\Two Blnes——a.n<l the proverbial lip. However, those who would not stmul the English horse because of a doubt that he would not run the two miles right out had to concede after the race was run tl:-‘at he had upset all their caalculations. He showed himself to be a great lhorse in finishing so Well under his burden of 9st. A VA-LUABLE STAKE. The Cup was ‘\‘\’Ul‘tll about £7,000 to the winners. Sir S—am.uel H‘01'fd(3I‘I1:1ll(1 Mr A. D. .\lurphy. The latter is a Victorian Sportsman. Sir Samuel

I-lordern had a better colt than he knew when he bought Kollilfol’d '6O win a Melbourne Cup for him, and he could not have known, of course, that he had already in his stable the winner of -the two mile race. It is rare that a race starts‘ six lminutes after ‘the advertised time, ex‘cept b.eca%se of the fracti-otusness of some of the runnres at the barrier. There were many sueculators as to the reason for LucknoW’s ‘return to the weigh'ing—out enclosure after he had finished his‘ preliminary, but no" one suspected Jthe .re'3.l I'eason——that Bullock had forgotten his__ lead bag. If he had not -discovered h‘i‘s mistake, and Lucknow had Won, and it had been found later that ‘the weight was a stone short——well, then, there would have been something to talk a‘bout.3 There Wvou’lél be expuivsite dramatic» situations to be drawn out of such a happening.

1 BOOKMAKERS HIT. Fortunes were won on Artilleryman It was stated by a leading bookmaker that ‘one of the owners of the co-lt stood to win £20,000 straight out, while he also had him well backed with Lucknow for the two Cups. Shortly -after t_he publication of the weights a Syrlney looo»kmake.r‘ laid £2OOO to £2O about him, while after his failure in the Derbj on Saturday, one fortunate punter was able to get £IOOO to £SO twice. ' V One Sydney bookmaker will bay out £15,000 on Artilleryman, »and he computes that quite 20 others will do the same. These alone then will pay £300,0.00.. '~_ Nightwatch would have been an even worse horse ivhile Lucknow, who only came into thel limelight after‘ the Caulfield Cup, would also havei been 3. bad proposition. ~ 1