Online Auction 3 Page:1 Lot Type Grading Description Est $A HORSE RACING - RACEBOOKS Lot 1250 HORSE RACING - RACEBOOKS Lot 1250 1859 Champion Sweepstakes 'Bell's Life Race Card, Champion Sweepstakes Day, Estimate A$2,400 Saturday, October 1st, 1859', including the first year of the Australian Champion Sweepstakes at wfa, and The City of Melbourne Handicap over 2 miles (two years before Reserve A$1,800 the first Melbourne Cup), some tape reinforcement along fold, otherwise Good condition. {Believed to be the earliest Victorian race card in private hands} Lot 1251 HORSE RACING - RACEBOOKS Lot 1251 1876 VRC Autumn Meeting 'Victoria Racing Club, Autumn Meeting 1876. Second Day, Estimate A$400 Thursday, 9th March. Official Card', including VRC Sires Produce Stakes (7th Sires - won by Newminster) & Australian Cup (won by Richmond), signed on front cover by J Barker, Reserve A$300 and some notes inside, Fair/Good condition. Lot 1252 HORSE RACING - RACEBOOKS Lot 1252 1882 Melbourne Hunt Club Steeplechases 'Melbourne Hunt Club Steeplechases. Estimate A$400 Spring Meeting, 1882, Saturday, 30th September, on the Flemington Racecourse. Official Programme', and 'Official Card', for the same meeting, both annotated '1208B' on the front Reserve A$300 covers, Good condition. (2 items) Lot 1253 HORSE RACING - RACEBOOKS Lot 1253 1909 Canterbury racebook 'Metropolitan Meeting 1909, CJC, Third Day', including Estimate A$70 Canterbury Cup & The Oaks Stakes, Fine condition. Reserve A$55 Page:2 www.abacusauctions.com.au 20 - 23 November 2020 Lot 1254 HORSE RACING - RACEBOOKS Lot 1254 1928 Victoria Derby '1st Day, 3rd November, Victoria Racing Club, Spring Meeting, 1928, Estimate A$800 Derby Day, Official Programme'. Superb condition. [The 1928 Victoria Derby was won by Strephon; the following year it was won by Phar Lap]. Reserve A$600 Lot 1255 HORSE RACING - RACEBOOKS Lot 1255 1929 Melbourne Cup 'Cup Day, Victoria Racing Club, Spring Meeting 1929, Official Estimate A$4,500 Programme' listing Phar Lap in the Melbourne Cup, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 36x38cm. [Phar Lap ran third, taking his record to date to 15 starts 5-1-1. The 1929 Reserve A$3,400 Melbourne Cup was won by Nightmarch, the first horse to win the Melbourne Cup and Cox Plate in the same year] Lot 1256 HORSE RACING - RACEBOOKS Lot 1256 1929 VRC Oaks 'Oaks Day, Victoria Racing Club, Spring Meeting, 1929, Official Estimate A$800 Programme' (Thursday 7th November), the Previous Winners pages recording Phar Lap's first in the Victoria Derby & third in the Melbourne Cup. Cover with minor soiling & some Reserve A$600 notes inside. Lot 1257 HORSE RACING - RACEBOOKS Lot 1257 1929 VRC Stakes Day 'The Last Day, Victoria Racing Club, Spring Meeting, 1929, Official Estimate A$1,200 Programme' (Saturday 9th November), showing Phar Lap entered in the CB Fisher Reserve A$900 Plate but scratched. (Only 4 days earlier Phar Lap had run third in the Melbourne Cup). Cover with minor soiling & some notes inside. Online Auction 3 Page:3 Lot 1258 HORSE RACING - RACEBOOKS Lot 1258 1929-30 Melbourne Cups 'The Racing Guide, Melbourne Cup Special' Nov.5th 1929 Estimate A$80 endorsed on front "1929 Phar Lap's Cup Try' in Poor condition; plus reprint of 1930 Reserve A$60 Melbourne Cup racebook. (2 items) Lot 1259 HORSE RACING - RACEBOOKS Lot 1259 TULLOCH: Display comprising racebook for Final Day of 1960 Centenary Melbourne Cup Estimate A$200 Carnival with Tulloch winning the CB Fisher Plate, window mounted with action photograph of Tulloch, framed & glazed, overall 45x54cm. Reserve A$150.