180 RACEHORSES IN AUSTRALIA 



Cup of 200 sovereigns (2 miles), Tarragon, 1 Ost. 41b., defeated Ramornie, 

 7st. 121b., with Ben Bolt third. Tarragon was by New Warrior from Ludia. 



The year 1 865 witnessed the first Australian Derby Stakes, won by 

 Judge Cheeke's Clove. From that year the Australian Jockey Club has made 

 extraordinary progress. At Homebush, in 1842, the added money for the 

 meeting held in the spring was £243. 



In the first season at Randwick ( 1 860) the club distributed in added 

 money £2,32 7. In 1870 it handed out £3,140. For the season ended 1880 

 the added money had increased to £6,792, and in 1890 the A.J.C. balance 

 sheet showed that it had distributed £24,450 in added money. Still going 

 strong, and despite the hard times during the following ten years, the club 

 contributed in stakes during the season of 1899 and 1900 the sum of 

 £23,475, which had increased to £44,950 in 1910. In the season of 1919-20 

 the A.J.C. treasurer ^vas signing cheques to the amount of £80,560, and 

 for the season ended July, 1922, the added money amounted to £1 1 1,200. 



A.J.C. History. Winners of the Randwick Derby. St. Leger. Champagne 



Stakes Winners. Zattenden Wins the St. Leger and Sydney Cup. Western 



District Performers. First Sporting Calendar. Earliest Stud Book. 



In the preceding chapters we have given, not perhaps a detailed report 

 of racing affairs in the colony, but a fairly full history up to the establishment 

 of the Australian Jockey Club's first Spring Meeting at Homebush in 1 842. 



As a matter of course much racing has been passed over. No space 

 can be devoted to details of the sport at such places as Barwon Park (a 

 small track near St. Peters), Cook's River, Parramatta, Five Dock, Cross 

 Roads, Ashfield, or the meetings promoted by a syndicate at Homebush 

 after the A.J.C. had located at Randwick. Perhaps the most notable of the 

 meetings carried out while the A.J.C. were racing at Homebush were the 

 yearly fixtures at Liverpool. For instance, at the Autumn Meeting in 185 7 

 the Liverpool Derby of 200 sovereigns, with a sweepstakes of 15 sovereigns 

 for starters, was won by Lauristina, and the Liverpool Town Plate by that 

 famous performer — Dora, by Camel. The Liverpool Club's Members' Plate 

 was won by Mr. G. T. Rowe's Planet, by Waverley. His rider was the 

 owner's son-in-law, the late Mr. Ettie de Mestre. 



Undoubtedly the old order of racing passed away in 1 864, as the A.J.C. 

 then drew up the conditions of their now classic events, the Australian 

 Derby and St. Leger Stakes, as they were then term.ed. Some years ago the 

 word "Australian" was changed to "Australia" Jockey Club Derby, which 

 has been shortened to A.J.C. Though Clove is given as the first Derby 

 winner at Randwick, this is hardly correct. Certainly she was the winner 

 of the first Australian Derby Stakes. There were, however, four Derbies 

 even prior to Clove's win in 1865. 



At the Autumn Meeting of 1865 the Western district horses Pasha (De 

 Clouet's), Union Jack and Alphonse were in great form. Union Jack, by 

 St. John, w'ho raced in the name of Mr. Gregory, won the Randwick Grand 

 Handicap of 200 sovereigns (2 miles), and Alphonse, owned by Mr. 

 McGregor, claimed the Waverley Stakes. Maid of the Lake won the All- 



