OBITUARY Mr F. Gilligan
“The Press” Special Service INVERCARGILL. Mr Frederick Ernest Gilligan, who died recently at the age of 71, was well-known In Southland racing circles as the breeder at Macedoine, one of the South Island’s top stayers of her time. Macedoine won the Wyndham Cup as a three-Vear-old in the hands of L. J. Ellis and the next year, in the 1943-44 season, the Salmagundi mare won the Invercargill Gold Cup and the Wellington Racing Club Handicap. She was later sold to India. Mr Gilligan, a former general carrier and hotel proprietor, raced Black Bard and Doubleack. and also bred Pride of Mossburn, a half-brother by Siegfried to Macedoine.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31753, 9 August 1968, Page 4
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