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Chance Today At Caulfield (N.Z.PA.-Reuter— Copyright) MELBOURNE, Jan. 11. Quite Able, brought from New Zealand to win the last Melbourne Cup, has a Chance to score his first win in Australia in the Inkerman Handicap over two miles at Caulfield tomorrow.
The Inkerman Handicap will suit Quite Able, as he is a winner of the New Zeeland Cup run over that distance.
Hardest for Quite Able to beat may be the 1961 Melbourne Cup winner. Lord Fury, which seems to be returoiing to top form. Quite Able was brought from New Zealand in plenty of time to acclimatise, but Halted to strike .Jiis best form and was worried with a leg injury during the spring.
He showed up later when he finished third to Even Stevens and Sky High in the weight-for-age C. B. Fisher Plate at Flemington on November 10. He ran fourth in the Sandown Cup after that and then was given a short spell before returning to racing.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30028, 12 January 1963, Page 4
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