ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
"Subscriber" (Waihi).—You are wrong in .our contention, as Voltigeur 11. did not carry off both the Steeplechases at the Takapuna Summer Meeting last year. ' Mr Ross' gelding was successful in the Second Handicap Steeplechase, in which ' he carried 9.12, and won by five lengths from Stockman, but the First Steeplechase fell to Nor'-west, who, with 13.5 in the saddle, ran home four lengths in front of his stable mate, Crusado. Voltigeur 11. did not start in this rate. "R.E.T." (Chelsea).—ln answer to your query, Lady Avon's first appearance was in the Avondale Stakes at the Avondale ,j.C. Spring Meeting, which the daughter of Soult won in a very hollow fashion by three lengths from Beddington. "Subscriber" (Onehunga). — The New Zealand record for 5 furlongs is lmin, . which was registered by Susannah in i The C.J.C. Nursery Handicap in 1599. St.; Clements' best performance over the distance was In the Glasgow Plate at the Dunedin J.C. Spring Meeting in 1896, when he carried 9.1 and ran a dead-heat with Multiform (7.G) in 1.22. Blazer (6.13) was three lengths away third.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 52, 2 March 1901, Page 3
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