THE V.R.C. DERBY WINNER.
The form of Amberite in the Victorian Derby and Melbourne Cup were just the very opposite. In the Blue Riband he scored a meritorious win over Aurum, but in the Cup lie finished in the ruck, wiiiie Mr Wilson's colt, Tinder his great weight of Bst 61b, gained third place in the two-mile race. This is form difficult to sum up. One thing is pretty certain, the superiority of the two three-year-olds is not yet settled, but it appears to me that thoroughly sound Aurum is the master of the New South Wales colt. Amberite is not engaged in the V.R.C. St. Leger, so that Aurum will not be able to wipe out the score in that classic event.
Amberite, the Derby winner, was bred by Mr Donald W Tallace, from two great favourites in Carbine and Duenna. AVhen the Lederburg stud was dispersed Duenna, with her colt foal, was sold to Mr Jno. Lee, of New South Wales, for 220 guineas. When Amberite came to a racing age he was leased to Mr W.Duggan, and has run for all his engagements in that trainer's name. As a two-year-old he was unsuccessful, but ran second to Aurum in both the Champagne and Easter Stakes, at the A.J.C. autumn meeting. He began this season by winning the Hampden Stakes, in which he beat Semiramis, Coil, El Norte, and Positano. From that day the A.J.C. Derby was set down as a good thing for Amberite, and in the race he did not disappoint his admirers, and lie won easily from Clarion and Mctford, who were both reared in the same paddocks. At the same meeting he annexed the Duff "Memorial Stakes and since that time he has placed a Caulfield. Cup and Victorian Derby to his credit. No three-year-old previously has accomplished such a sterling deed as winning an A.J.C. and V.R.C. Derby and a Caulh'ekl Cup.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 255, 3 November 1897, Page 3
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319THE V.R.C. DERBY WINNER. Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 255, 3 November 1897, Page 3
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