THE VICTORY OF SWORDFISH.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 54, 5 March 1898, Page 3

THE VICTORY OF SWORDFISH.

I Judging from the handsome manner in which Swordfish won the Wanganui Jubilee Cup lie is a better horse than most people gave him credit for. Previous to .being taken to the West Coast the general opinion locally was he did not like a journey, but his win in the Egmont Cup .% over a mile and three-quarters, and his ■I more recent success at Wanganui over the H same distance goes to show that staying is .! I_9 forte. When Swordfish got home at JU Egmont in the Cup and Atkinson H Memorial Stakes he had something in • | land, and only for. his bad form at the H Taranaki meeting he would have been more ",\ fancied for the Jubilee Cup on Thursday.. .| Swordfish being only four years old he has H a good career before him, providing, of >.j course, that he keeps sound. As a twoM year-old the Aucklander failed to win a M race, and as a three his successes were the H Hack Handicap and Welter Handicap at L'l the Takapuna J. C. Winter Meeting. This ,■;! season he has won seven races as follows :— Li Ai*cklaxd Racing Club Spring. ] Dist. Wght. Time. - 1 mile st lb mm sec I President's Handicap ..1 8 5 148 .-j Ascot Handicaps mile and dist. 7 0 2 5 I Auckland Racing Club Summer; 'i Dist. Wght. Time. ;:] mile st lb mm sec „:i Christmas.Handicap .. 1' 8 4 1 44 v. Grand Stand Handicap .. U 8 1 2 1. J Ll Egmont Racing Club Summeu. fa Dist. Wght. Time. ! _ ■ mile st lb mm sec ,| Egmont Cup ' .. 1? 8 2 3 9 | Atkinson Memorial Stakes U 8 12 2 45 3-5 | Waxoanui Jl-bilee. I Dist, Wght. Ttime. L- „ mile st lb mm sec M Cup 1} 8 9 3 4 1-5 J In stakes this season Swordfish has won hi tlie jespectable amount of £1,440. The -. x\ ladings of his pedigree read :— I | SWORDFISH.

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