By \AVOURITES und outsiders shar Shanghai, Nov. 17. <d_premier honours yesterday afternoon when the Shanghai Race Club held their Autumn Race Meeting with thei usual "off-day" programme of eight flat 5 and one steeplechase, which provided the large crowd that oltonded the meeting with thu galore with such close decisions as short-heads and dead-heats.
Being the last day of the meet it was, of course, the chi en's day and there were crowd of.them running round the pari-mutuals counters urging their parents to back their particular fancies.
The National Steeplechase the fea~ ture event of the day, saw the famous unter and mudlarker going slow secre an overwhelming triumph over Bobby to win by the convincing mar in of many Iengths., while Socrates three lengths away third. We might have seen a different result, however, if San Carlo, who was great going strong, had not erred at the Monument. Wall and some down, ringing his rider with him, The first incident occurred when Steve Brodie, who appeared to have tired considerably after a round and a half, smacked into the Polo Ground Wall io send his rider for a double somersault. Nash rolled over a couple of times and when he found hhis bearings he found one hand hurting frightfully. Tt was later dis~ covered that he had broken it,
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