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ARTILLERYMAN WINS MELBOURNE CUP Captures Australias Most Famous Bace, with Another Grand Three-Year-Old Second. .Australias greatest and most widely known race, the Melbourne Cup, at two miles, for three-year-olds and over, was run over the noted Flemington course at Melbourne Tuesday, November 4. The finish was between two great three-year-olds, which have been making turf history in the spring campaign now going on there, Sir S. Horderns Artilleryman winning, with J. Barons Richmond Main second and the lightly-weighted old gelding Two Blues third. Artilleryman and Richmond Main ran a dead heat and divided the stakes in the Australian Jockey Club Derby, run October 3. Then Richmond Main defeated the former in the subsequent Victoria Racing Club Derby. Both of these races were at the correct Derby distance of a mile and a half, with all starters carrying 120 pounds. Now, at a longer distance, Artilleryman has turned the tables on his recent conqueror. Botli are held to be young horses of extraordinary merit and obviously are closely matched. Under the conditions they, each carried 104 pounds in the Melbourne Cup. Artilleryman is by Comedy King Cross Battery, by Step-niak, while. Richmond Main is by Prince Foote Australian Gas, by Traquair. Comedy King himself won the Melbourne Cup in 1910 and is a son of the famous English racer and sire Persimmon. The Cup this year had 278 entries and Sasanof was top-weight at 135 pounds. The race had 5,000 and a 750 cup added, second horse taking 7,000 and third 3,500.
