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FINE AUSTRALIAN RACING Great Fields and Quality in Antipodean Spring Meet at Sydney. Gloaming Wins and Loses Dead Heat in Derby Rebus Wins by Gameness Over Gloaming. SYDNEY, New South "Wales, October S. The spring meeting of the Australian Jockey Club, which opened last Saturday, is in glorious progress. Racing was never so popular as this season. On the first two days at Randwick, with wet weather, the attendance was 05,000 and 75,000 and the betting was stupendous. The take on the Metropolitan Handicap alone was nearly 30,000 and the days total over 10,000. The Australian Jockey Club Derby, run for Saturday, October -ij-iat Kandwick, resulted in a dead heat between Artilleryman, by Comedy King Cross Battery, and Richmond Main, by Prince Foote Australian Gas. There were only eight starters and the mile and a half was run In 2:34. Artilleryman was 2 to 1 and Richmond Main 4 to 1 in the betting. Iu the 1,000 Spring Stakes the same day, , Poltrel, 5, 131, by St. Alwyne Poniard, beat the champion Gloaming, 4, 123, by a head after a thrilling, race .for the last mile of the mile and a half. Poitrel closed on and wore Gloaming down in the last two hundred yards and won genuinely. Tile time, was 2:35. A notable field of ten went in the race. Cetigne, 132, was third. Behind him were The Fortune Hunter, 132; Prince Virides, 131; Kehhnquhair, 131; Ian Or, 129; Sasanof, 120; Thana, 127, and Carbern, 12G. Gloaming was an odds-on favorite; Poitrel, 9 to 4; Sasanof, 4 to 1, and 20 to 1 was laid against the others. -The second race of October 5 at Randwick was for the 0,000 Metropolitan Handicap at one mile and a half. It was a magnificent one and won by Rebus in 2:32. Rebus is a six-year-old by Radium Quibble, and carried 130 pounds. Kenil-ford, 5, 102, by Kenilworth Elueford, was second, and Amazonia, 5, 100, by St Alwyne The Amazon, third. An enormous field of twenty-seven horses started, including Kcnnaquhair, 135; Cetigne, 128; Ian Or, 110; Laddie Blue, 98; Afterglow, 118; Arch Marella, 124; Finmark, 126; Sandbce, 107; Prince Viridls, 128; Thana, 128; Lordacre, 120; Sydney Damsel, 124; Dick Meagher, 108; Braille. 107; Shaded Light, 105; Golden Bronze, 103; Toison dOr, 102; Carbern, 110; Seabound, 100; New Zealand, 99; British Arch, 99; Posadoon, 98; Red-hum, 98, and Every Day, 92. In the betting Rebus was 12 to 1, Kenilford 13 to 1 and Amazonia 33 to 1. Ian Or, Kenilford and Cetigne were the favorites at 5-j to 1, In some of the lists issued at the commencement of .September the Epsom and Metropolitan double of Wolarol and Rebus was quoted at 2000 to 1. After the declaration of first forfeit, and before Wolarol won the Tramway Handicap, the price of 1250 to 1 was still obtainable. The totalizator turnover of 10,10S at Randwick on Metropolitan day was a record for Australia and New Zealand. Investments on the Metropolitan totaled 35,798. With the turnover for the first two days ril,322, it is certain unless the weather interferes the total of ,114,090 for the spring meeting of last year will be beaten. WOLAROI AND GLOAMING IK FORM. Wolaroi, 0, by Kenilworth Whidden Lass, won the 2,000 mile Epsom Handicap on Saturday. He was 7 to 1, carried- 134 pounds, and beat Quaestor, 5. 112. by two lengths, willi Greenstead third. The mile was hi 1:384 and the race a sparkling one. The day before in the Tramway Handicap Wolaroi under 138 pounds, made a new Australian record for spven-cighths. beating Greenstead, 137 pounds, by a length, witli Laddie Blue, 111, third. The time was 1:25, some two seconds slower than tin 1:23 New Zealand record of Fabripiett, 5, 120. at Auckland last Dej-emlxr. But It was a fine performance, considering the weight Wolaroi enr-llPd. Thpre were seventeen starters. Gloaming, at his first start in Australia last reason, created a sensation, and his reappearance here was productive of another. In the Spring Stakes at Rosehill lie was meeting Wolaroi on much better terms than would be the case in a mile handicap, but, as lie had not raced since his fall at Wellington in May, and Wolaroi had shown first-cIbks sprinting form at Randwick the previous Saturday, it was generally thought the latter would prove ids master. At the end Gloaming won quite easily by a length in 1:40, and Is surely a brilliant racer. His like for speed has not been seen here for many a day. So far Gloaming lias won 1919.sh2,185. Poitrel is another notable winner now in sharp action. With eight wins and two thirds in stakes lie lion earned 9,505. At n. Chaffeys Sherwood Park Stud, Victoria, last week, a brother to Surveyor was foaled. Surveyor ha a fine list of victories as a two-year-old, Including the Canterbury Jockey Club Welcome Stake, Electric Plate, running the half mile in Continued on second page. FINE AUSTRALIAN RACING Continued1 from first page. 45; Great Northern Foal Stakes; Feilding Stakes and Middle Park Plate. Gloaming, however, spoilt his record toward the close of the season by beating him in the Kelburn Plate and Canterbury Jockey Club . Challenge Stakes. Surveyor is a. product of the now famous Gaiopiu Musket cross, his sire being Nassau, by William the Third, by St. Simon-Stolen Love, by Buccaneer; by. Privateer True Love, by Sterling, by Oxford. While his dam. Pedometer, is by Stepniak, by Nordenfeldt Demeter, by Wallace; by Carbine Eleusis, by Barcaldine, by Solon. In New Zealand last season Sasanof met Gloaming three times. Their first meeting was in the Champion Plate, one and one-quarter miles, at Wellington, Gloaming winning easily and Sasanof running .nowhere. Their second meeting was also at a .mile and a quarter, the race being the G. G. Stead Memorial Shakes. Sasanof beat Gloaming two and a half lengths in 2:05; and when they .opposed each other a third, time it was in the Islington Plate, one mile. Gloaming was all too good for the older gelding, and beat him a length and. a half in the Australasian record time of 1:37. AUSTRALIAN RACE TIME REDUCTION. Many of the Australian weight-for-age races in the old days were the reverse of truly run, but such was not the case when Carbine and Megaphone met in the Craven Plate of 1890. Odds of 7 to 4 were laid on Carbine, but it was only after a terrific strig;lc; over the final half mile that lie beat Megaphone three-quarters of a length in 2:07, which, up to then, was the Australian record for a. mile and a quarter. The third horse. Cuirassier, was twenty lengths off, and Cardigan was last. D. S. Wallace received only ,295 for the win, whereas today the race carries 0,000 added money. Carbines time for the race was not equaled until fifteen years later, when Gladsome beat Marvel Loch. In 1909 Maltine also ran 2:07, and Lady Medallist was first to get inside that time, doing 2:00! in 1911. That did not stand long as a record, Duke Foote equaling it the following year and reducing it to 2:03:i the next. Woorak ran 2:03 in 1914, Biplane 2:03 in 1917, Cetignc 2:01, and then Magpie 2:04 last year. .In New Zealand recently, with neither trains nor boats available, owners had to walk their horses to and from meetings; in the South Island. The trainer W. Griffiths walked his horses from Christchurch back to Dunedin, the journey taking exactly a week. The. horses arrived in excellent condition. C. ,B. Kellow of Sydney is well-known as a big punter, and as an amateur layer of odds he takes a deal of beating. A Melbourne exchange credits him with having laid J. E. Brewer 0,000 to .twelve cents against Kscomb for the next Melbourne Cup. . KANGAROO.
