DOMINION AND AUSTRALIAN RACING.
Your correspondent "Silver Scorn" has evidently been to Avondale, and, having "done tho purse," is now "whipping the cat." Hfe blames Australia for having shown a bad example to New Zealand, and apparently thinks the quotation, "Go thou and do likewise" was intended for the sport of king?. "Silver Scorn II." has gone over to Australia to permanently reside, where your pound on the racecourse is worth a pound, where good odds are plentiful and where the starting prices and the "tote" dividends are shown in black and white when you pick up your evening paper. To the punter "Silver Scorn" I would sav, "Stat magni nominis umbra." J.E.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 98, 28 April 1933, Page 6
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