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SASANOF A MELBOURNE CUP WINNER. After a postponement of a week because of a flooded track, the Melbourne Cup was run at Flem-ington, November 11, and, with twenty-eight horses starting, was won by the New Zealand-bred three-year-old colt, Sasanof. with 95 pounds up. Shepherd King, carrying 115 pounds, ten pounds of which was a penalty for winning the Caulfield Cun, was second and the English-bred St. Spasa, 127 pounds, was third. The two miles of the race were covered in 3:27. Sasanof won by two and a half lengths and was at 14 to 1 in the betting. Concerning the placed horses in this greatest handicap in the world, a competent English critic Writes: "The race for the Melbourne Cup resulted in a reversal of the Caulfield Cup form, the winner of the latter race. Shepherd King, being defeated by Sasanof, with St. Snasa third. Shepherd King was penalized ten pounds for his Caulfield success, and this enabled Sasanof, which was then third, to turn the tables on his conqueror. Both Shepherd King and St. Spasa were imported from England, and it is worthy of note that their Melbourne Cup victor, Sasanof, is by imported Martian, which is by Martagon. while Shepherd King is by Martagon himself. It is extraordinary how well the majority of the descendants of Martagon stay, instances in Engl.md being Mazagan Goodwood Cup, Balsar-roch Cesarewitch, Mintagon Cesarewitch, also Musa Oaks, and Woolwinder St. Leger. Shepherd King is a brother to Woolwinder. Martian, the sire of the three-year-old Melbourne Cup winner, Sasanof. is by Martagon Otterden. Although foaled in New Zealand, Martian is English at all points. His dam, Otterden 1806, was bred by the late Mr. J. II. Ilouldsworth, by Sheen Spring Morn, and was sent to New Zealand in 1900, covered by Martagon. Spring Morn herself was one of the numerous mares of the Sunshine branch of the famous No. 1 family, with which Mr. Iloulds-worths turf fortunes were so closely identified. Already as a two-year-old in New Zealand Sasanof showed that staying was his best suit. Having been foaled in New Zealand, the credit of breeding him goes to his owner, Mr. W. G. Stead, whose stallion, Martian, it is safe to assume will take a much higher place at the end of this year August, 1910, to July, 1917 than was the the case last year, when he stood eighteenth in the list of winning sires with eight winners of fourteen races inclusive of a dead-heat worth over 0,500 sovereigns to his credit. Now that there are so many stallions of St. Simon descent in Australia and Now Zealand, it is just as well that the Martagon line of Bend Or Stockwell should also be going strong out there. The Hampton branch of Newminster, too, is well represented by nearly a dozen prominent stallions, while the lino of Newminsters sire, Touchstone, is, of course, strongly in evidence by aid of such stalwart descendants of Carbine as Wallace, Pistol, Mountain King, and others. It will be seen, therefore, that in spite of the seeming preponderance of stallions of St. Simon blood there is no danger of that family swamping the Australian turf. The lines named are all in tail-male descent from Eclipse, and the rival family of the other old-timer. Match-em, is prominently represented by Wolfs Crags son,, Linacre which was second in the winning list of last season and others..
