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CHINA COCKS LIVERPOOL SPRING CUP. Paul Nelkes good luck is the striking feature of the lirst week of the English Hat racing season of 1914. Having won the valuable Lincolnshire Handicap Wednesday afternoon with Outrain, he followed up this enviable success by winning the Liverpool Spring Cup on Thursday afternoon with his four-year-old China Cock, a son of Santoi and the American-bred mare High Feather, a daughter of Henry of Navarre. The Liverpool Spring Cup is a handicao for three-year-olds and over at a mile and three-eighths. Its value is .fr.,000. of which the second horse takes ."0 and its net value to the winner is .? 1. 02.".. China Cock carried 10," pounds and was at S to 1 in the betting. Lord Uoseherys five-year-old horse Wrack, by Robert le Diable Samphire, 10." pounds, was second, and V. Thompsons live-year-old horse Redwood, by Oppressor Beatrice .Maud, IIS pounds, finished third. Wrack was at 10t to lo iu the betting and it was 20 to 1 against Redwood. The Liverpool track evidently suits China Cocks notions, for last year he only won two races and both were won over that track. The lirst of the two was the Karl of Sef tons Plate, at the Liverpool Spring meeting and the second was the Liverpool Autumn Cup at the Liverpool Autumn meeting. November 7. He ran in thirteen other races last year, in all of which lie was beaten.
