AUGUSTINE EASILY
Feature Race At Randwick
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY, January 29 Ridden by G. Moore, the New Zealand galloper Augustine (late Avocado) scored a runaway win in the Anniversary Handicap at Randwick today. At Randwick on Saturday in finishing second in the January Handicap, Moore allowed Augustine to remain last in a strung-out field, for a good part of the distance Today, Moore rode Augustine with much more keenness. and had the gelding a handy fifth. although on the outside of Palm frandy most of the way. He made bis run a£ter passing the half-mile, where Aueustine was going very easily. Soon after straightening up for home. Moore ran Augustine to the front and won easily by two . and a half lengths, from Arabia. Sir Albert was a long neck away third. When the barrier stalls opened Moore caught his right foot on the edge of the stalls, and the spur was snapped off. but it dir 1 not upset him. . Moore was successful on Codicil, which ran a deadheat with Right Roval in the 1947 Anniversary Handicap Augustine is in the Australian Cup- the long distance race at the autumn carnival at Flemington, but the trainer. C Rvan, said it had no* been decided yet whether Augustine would go to Melbourne.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29734, 30 January 1962, Page 5
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