AUSTRALIAN CAMPAIGN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN CAMPAIGN

DEFAULTER DEPARTS TO-DAY OWNER CROSSING LATER The champion three-year-old Defaulter leaves Wellington to-day lor Australia where he will compete at the autumn racing carnivals. The Defoe colt has been on the easy list since his Wellington Cup success and he will undergo a month’s solid training on arrival before he is seen out with the colours up. He is going over under the care ot his trainer, r. A. Roberts. Defaulter will have his first outing in the Chipping Norton Stakes, one mile and a-quartcr, at Warwick Farm on April 1. A week later will see the opening of the Australian Jockey Club’s Easter meeting at Randwick, where the programme includes four weight-for-age contests. They comprise the Autumn Plate, one mile and a-half on the first day; the All-Aged Plate, one mile, and the Cumberland Plate, one mile and three-quarters, on the third day; and the RandwicK Plate, two miles and a-quarter, on the fourth day. May Contest Handicaps. Defaulter may not be restricted in his Australian campaign to weight-for-age events, as he has been nominated for the Sydney Cup, two miles, to be run on the second day at Randwick. Ajax and the three-year-old Nuffield, the two present stars in Australia, have also been nominated. | The assessment of these three by the Australian Jockey Club's handicapper will be of much interest. They are outstanding performers, and as they have never met there is no direct line on the relative merits of the trio. Mr. H. D. Greenwood, owner of Defaulter, will leave Christchurch in time to see the colt race across the Tasman. He is then planning to visit England, where he expects to witness a good deal of racing, including the Dex-by in May and the Ascot June meeting.