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MOUNTAIN KNIGHT DEFEATS WOORAK. Tlie Australian Jockey Club Derby was" run at Sydney Saturday, October 3, and was won by E. J. Watts Mountain Knight, with R. S. McLeods Woorak second, and A. Foleys Giru third. Woorak was favorite at 5 to 4 on. and the winner was at i to 1. Eleven ran. and the time was 2:35Vt. It is a rich race, having 5,000 added. Mountain Knight, the winner, is a son of Mountain King, one of the biggest and best horses that ever looked through a bridle in Australia. As a three-vear-old lie swept the board, taking the Australian Jockey Club Derby and St. Leger and the Victoria Racing Club Derby and St, Leger. while he also finished third in the Melbourne Cit! fwhich. with more powerful handling, he mignt have won to Apologue, which afterwards won the Viceroys Cup In India. In April last, as a two-year-old. Mountain Knight was not quite a first lliehter. being ilea ten into second place by Iiuslii bv Persian Knight In the ricii Sires Produce Stakes, and finishing unplaced behind Woorak in the Champagne Stakes. The Derby result shows that lie wintered better than his conqueror. Woorak is by Traquair Madam, and all the Tra-quairs iu Australia have been remarkably precocious two-year-olds, but few of them have rim : ou with age and distinguished themselves as : Woorak has done. Giru. which finished third, is of English parentage, as he. is a brown colt by Antonio Virtu. In April be was only equal to handicap form, but won the Second Nursery Handicap 1 , at the Australian Jockey Club autumn meeting of three-quarters of a mile with 93 pounds in a. fairly smart field. Antonio was one of the best English 1 sprinters sent to Australia, and it in a curious fact that Mountain King and he met in the Caullield Futurity Stakes over seven-eighths in 1 1908. when Antonio, with 131 pounds, and conceding - two pounds, just managed to get home first. . Mr. Watt, the wealthy .squatter, who owns j Mountain Knight, must regret that he did not L ei a enter him for the Melbourne Cup. Woorak was amongst the first acceptances with 104 pounds, and Giru, with the minimum of 91 pounds.
