YOUNG WEXFORD’S WIN IN SYDNEY DERBY
N.Z. PACER TO REMAIN IN AUSTRALIA (N.Z J* Ji.—Reuter— Copyright) SYDNEY, April 19. The New Zealand pacer, Young Wexford, will remain in Australia as a result of his easy win in the Sydney Pacers’ Derby at Harold Park last night. Young Wexford is the first gelding to have won the Pacers’ Derby since the race was inaugurated in 1930. “I’ve got him for good now,” his jubilant trainer-driver, Alf Phillis, said after his win. He explained that Young Wexford’s owner, Mr A. E. Lovett, had promised that he could keep on training the three-year-old if he won the Derby with him. By his win Phillis achieved a distinction, unique for this race, of winning two Derbies in succession. He was successful last year with another New Zealand horse, Orari.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27322, 12 April 1954, Page 4
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