THREE-YEAR-OLD WINNERS
The Wanganui Cup has a historydating back to 1875, with a break in the sequence between 1930 and 1935, and it is of interest to record that no less than ten three-year-olds have won the race. Two of them, Betrayer (1880) and Sir George (1881), succeeded when the distance was 2J miles, and the other eight, Dudu (1888), St. Katharine (1893), Advance (1900), Nobility (1901), Nonette (1902), Boomerang (1906), Milan (1910), and Bronze (1912), when the distance was I! miles. The weight-carrying record for a three-year-old in the Wanganui Cup is the 8.11 carried by Nonette. The Wellington-Wanganui Cup double has only been won once in the same season by three-year-olds, when Renown won at Trentham in 1901 and Nobility at Wanganui. Defaulter has the first "leg" in this year.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 13
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132THREE-YEAR-OLD WINNERS Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 13
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