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Caulfieht Cup
LORD FURY
TIPPED;
BLUE LODGE
"SORE"
MELBOURNE, Thursday. — Lord
Fury, regarded as a handicapping cer
tainty, is chosen to win the Caulfield
Cup on Saturday.
Blue Lodge, equal favourite with
Lord Fury, was shin-sore to-day.
His owner, Mr. Les Donald
said to-day he did not con
sider the trouble serious.
Blue Lodge is receiving
veterinary attention and was
civen ray treatment to-day.
Mr. Donald does not con
sider the# trouble serious
enough to prevent the horse
running in the Cup. .
Lord Fury, thud in the
Epsom, won at w.f.a. betore
and after . his Epsom run
and with 7.6 is very favour
ably weighted.
Runaway
He scored in the Hill
Slakes at RosehiU before the
Epsom and on the final day
liad a runaway win in the
Colin Stephen Stakes.
B Howlett, who rode
Sharply at Caulfield last
week, flew straight back to
Sydney to clinch the Lord
Fury ride.
This would indicate, in
Howlett's opinion at any rate,
that he prefers Lord Fury
to Sharply. '
The New Zealander, Blue
Lodge, is named as the
danger to Lord Fury.
He has been set for the
Caulfield Cup and although
he has not had much racing
in Melbourne this spring his
connections have declared
him fit enough.
At his last start he beat
Dhautagiri pointless in the
w.f.a. Turnbull Stakes at
Flemington.
Since then he has galloped
well. _ _
X'oo Much
Nilarco, a winner at Caul
field on show day, scored in
the Craven Plate at Rand
wick before his Metropolitan
run.
He looks the best of the
heavily weighted candidates.
Dhaulagiri with 9.6 and
Valerius on 9.4 probably
have too much weight, but
Sharply on 8.13 must be con
sidered.
Geinstone will probably
go a lot better in the Cup
than in the Herbert Power
last week, and is well worth
keeping in mind, while
IPri nee Argon on 7.6 is not
without a show.
Indian Summer appears to
hold a mortgage on the One
Thousand Guineas over a
niile for three-year-old fillies.
Last week she was a bit
out of her class against the
colts in the Caulfield Guin
eas, but against her own sex,
a bolder bid can be. ex
pected.
Hoa Hine and Holiday look
the pair that will provide the
toughest opposition for her.
Divisions in the Gwyn
Nursery have extended the
programme to seven races,
with the last at 5 p.m.
Not many of the colts en
gaged in the divisions of the
Gwyn Nursery have shown
a great deal of form and not
one winner is engaged.
Royal Arigato, William of
Orange and Cepheus appeal
for the first division while the
chances in the second are
Budding, Deeds and Royal
Hyaku.
Mozart has raced over
fences five times in Mel
bourne since coming from
New Zealand for three wins
and a second.
Two of his wins and his
second were over the Caulfield
fences.
Level Lot
With his regular rider E.
Anderson back in the saddle,
Mozart reads as the winner
of the Wyuna Steeple.
Three year old colts and
geldings tackls the mile and
a quarter Burwood Handi
cap.
They are a very level lot
and although Minaroo has
not raced for a few weeks, he
has the form to suggest that
he will be hard to beat. I
He has shaped like a stay
er and will appreciate the
mile and a quarter.
Raajpool from Sydney,
winner of the Clibborn
Handicap at Randwick and
the S.AJ.C. Derby winner,
Gatum Gatum, could be the
toughest to defeat.
Possibly the toughest race
of the entire V.A.T.C. Spring
Meeting is the Moonga Han
dicap which concludes the
three day's racing.
One of at least a dozen
could win it without any sur
I prise.
The winner may come from
either Havelock, Muirfield
or Goldent.
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