METEORIC RISE.
SYDNEY CUP FAVOURITE.
TWO SUCCESSES IN WEEK.
PRACTICALLY UNKNOWN PREVIOUSLY.
(Received 10 a.m.)
SYDNEY, this day.
Mestor Avon, who won the Autumn Cup, one mile and a half, at Warwick Farm on Saturday, has been penalised 101b and will carry 7.3 in the Sydney Cup. In a little over a week this horse has risen from obscurity to being favourite for the Sydney Cup. He is a six-year-old whose career was interrupted when he broke down in a hind leg a couple of years ago. On recovering he competed at country meetings, and had not won a race worth more than £35 until he burst into the limelight by winning the Autumn Handicap, one mile and a half, at Rosehill last Saturday week.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 69, 23 March 1937, Page 16
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