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THE JOCKEY, H. N. WIGGINS [Pur United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, April After an absence of five weeks the jockey H. N. Wiggins has returned from a visit to Melbourne, and be intends to resume riding at the Marlborough Racing Club’s Autumn Meeting, which will be held on Saturday and Monday. During his trip Wiggins had several rides, finishing second on Positron in the second division of the Calliope Handicap and third on Zohda to Pure Gold and Aurie's Star in the Alister Clarke Stakes at Moonee Valley. Wiggins has received a good offer to return to Melbourne to ride for the stable presided oier by L. Robertson, If be accepts he will return to Australia later in the year, probably about the end of June, and in the meantime be will follow bis calling in the Dominion.
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Evening Star, Issue 23553, 17 April 1940, Page 4
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