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(N.Z. Press Association) MELBOURNE. ; Welcome Advice’s third In the iKilmore Cup, at Kilmore. Vie. 'to ria, on Monday made him the .highest stake winning pacer in 'Australia or New Zealand. The third stake of $575 took his total winnings to 5142,12 l Ito surpass Cardigan Bay’s long’ standing total of $141,624 in the • two countries. Cardigan Bay. the New Zealand ; pacer which finished his career in America, finally won more . than $1 million before he was I retired. Welcome Advice from the Riverina district ox New South Wales, started from 3Gm over 'the cup distance of 2620 m. Al- • though he secured an inside run ;in the last lap, he would have | had to rate phenomenal time to • win. The triple Derby winner Paleface Adios. showed quality and stamina to rate 2:5.5 in winning the cup. After starting from 10m he was trapped in the open for most of the way before racing away on the home turn and holding off all challenges in the straight. Paleface Adios won by 4m from the fast-finishing Royal Gaze with Welcome Advice a head away third
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33370, 31 October 1973, Page 8
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