High Caste

High Caste placed second in the Victoria Derby before he dead-heated with Manrico in the Linlithgow Stakes before winning the C.B.Fisher Plate two days later.

[1] At his first four-year-old start High Caste won the Victoria Park Flying Handicap in Sydney before placing third in the Canterbury Stakes.

After finishing second in the wfa Craven Plate High Caste then went to Melbourne where he won the Caulfield Stakes from Ajax by a ¾ length and equalled the course record.

In the autumn of 1941 High Caste defeated Zonda to win the VATC Futurity Stakes carrying 10 stone 6 pounds (66 kg).

After a fourth placing in the VRC Newmarket Handicap carrying 10 st 2 lb (64 kg) High Caste then won the 14 furlong (2,800 m) Kings Plate five days later.

After an unplaced run in the Cantala Stakes High Caste returned to form taking out the Linlithgow and CB Fisher Plate double for the third successive year.

A spell followed before High Caste resumed racing in Sydney with a win in the Challenge Stakes then a dead heat with Mildura in the AJC Australia Day Handicap.

In his next two starts in Melbourne he was unplaced before he returned to Sydney where he could only manage a fourth in the Doncaster Handicap and a third in the wfa All Aged Plate.

Jack Jamieson trainer.
1939 AJC Craven Plate racebook showing the winner, High Caste.