FISHERMAN.
The '• Bird of Freedom " has the following interesting paragraph about the great Fisherman:—" The celebrated Fisherman, who won so many Queen's Plates during his career, was in turn the property of Mr Tom Parr and Mr Frank Higgins. The horse (who was subsequently sold to go to Australia) was a most ungainly-looking mover, turning his toes put so much in galloping that to those who looked straight down the course his forelegs had the appearance of a pair of oars in motion. The last race he ever run—in fact, the best and closest race that was ever run within our time—was when in '59 he met Lord Stamford's Newcastle in the Queen's Plate at Lichfield. The pair were racing together a mile from home, and in the end George Fordham on Newcastle just did tho natty Cresswell on the old horse by a short head. The excitement during the final struggle was so intense that the old stand on Whittington Heath (which was then on the opposite eide of the course) was in great danger of collapsing altogether."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 104, 3 May 1890, Page 3
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