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Mighty Briton At Claudelands
The Cambridge - trained pacer, Mighty Briton, is being regarded in the North as something of a Claudelands specialist His last four of six wins in a race career which began back in 1954 have been on the Waikato Trotting Club’s course at Hamilton.
All of his successes at Claudelands have been over a mile and a quarter and only one of the other two was beyond that distance. That was his first win as a three-year-old in the 1954-55 season. It was a 13-furlong maiden event at Hutt Park. His second win was at Franklin ip his first start as a five-year-old. Altogether since he was two until the present—he is now eight —Mighty Briton has contested 91 races and 14 of have been at Claudelands. He made his first appearance on the course in a 13-furlong improvers’ race late in June, 1955. He finished fourth. The next season Mighty Briton contested three races there for two seconds and a third. At five he gained his firth placing, a second, in as many starts on the track but at his second try and also his last start in the same season he recorded his first of five unplaced efforts on the Claudelands track. His first win at Hamilton and his third in a very busy racing career came at his first start as a six-year-old. He had three further starts on the course that season, won one and was unplaced in the other two. The season just ended was Mighty Briton’s lightest since he was two. He raced only seven times for a win and a third. His win was at one of three starts at Claudelands and the placing came at Hutt Park, another course on which he has invaribly raced well.
G. L. Mitchell, who trains Mighty Briton, has his stables at Leamington, which is part of Cambridge but divided from the main township by the Waikato river. A strange feature of Mighty Briton's racing career is that although he has been trained and has raced on the Cambridge course since he was two he has not yet finished close enough in • race there to earn a stake.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28972, 13 August 1959, Page 4
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