A CHAMPION SILENCES HIS CRlTlCS.—Because no three-year-old had carried 8.11 to victory in the Wellington Cup, there was a tendency in some quarters to discount the prospect of Defaulter making history. This photographic study of the finish of the Cup at Trentham yesterday is the reply of Mr. H. D. Greenwood's crack colt. Aussie Ra, the third horse, put in a fine finishing run and just failed to catch The bandwichman.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 16, 20 January 1939, Page 12
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71A CHAMPION SILENCES HIS CRlTlCS.—Because no three-year-old had carried 8.11 to victory in the Wellington Cup, there was a tendency in some quarters to discount the prospect of Defaulter making history. This photographic study of the finish of the Cup at Trentham yesterday is the reply of Mr. H. D. Greenwood's crack colt. Aussie Ra, the third horse, put in a fine finishing run and just failed to catch The bandwichman. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 16, 20 January 1939, Page 12
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