AUSTRALIAN.
The Sandhurst Cup, one mile and a quarter, wan won by Tecoma (Off Colour — St. Albans mare), carrying 6st 81b, Battalion (lOat 21b) and Bacchus (7st 91b) filling the places. On the same day the ex-New Ze&lander Carrick secured the Miners' Flat Race, six furlongs. Another ex-New Zealander was successful on the second day of the meeting 1 , Sortie, by Catesby (7st), running a dead heat with Ayrshire (9st 71b) in the Bendigo Handicap, one mile and a distance, which was run in lmiu 58£ sec. Mr. W. R. Wilson has lost his two-year-old Stoic, owing to influenza. Mr. Wilson himself is still in Sir Thomas Fitzgerald's hospital, having undergone an operation, and he is slowly improving. The Adelaide racing olubs are going to work a6s totalisator in future. This is to give the ' silver ' backers a better opportunity of investing. Mr. • Rowen ' has deoided to try a change of trainers, and Fleet Admiral and Miraclum are now inmates of Walter Hickenbotham's stable.
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Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 141, 11 December 1897, Page 3 (Supplement)
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