Racing
Let's Go Racing. By Ellen Roberts. Oswald-Sealy. Mrs Roberts’s book is no Phar Lap of turf literature, but it earns some standing in the lamentably weak field of publications on New Zealand racing. Her chapters on Rising Fast, the first New Zealand horse to win the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups in one year, are probably the most interesting in the book. She has found a small corner for Moifaa, the New Zealand horse that won the Grand National at Aintree. But will turf historians of the future accept Mrs Roberts’s description of Moifaa as “the good looking New Zealand entry”? Or was Lord Marcus Beresford right? Lord Marcus, a prominent sportsman at that time, described the big gelding as “the ugliest devil you ever saw.”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30586, 31 October 1964, Page 4
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126Racing Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30586, 31 October 1964, Page 4
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