BRUCE IS LIKELY CONTENDER FOR MELBOURNE CUP HONOURS
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, June 29. ■ Bruce, New Zealand’s leading stake winner so far this season, will start in the next Melbourne Cup, providing he is anyway reasonably treated in the handicap. This was stated by his owner, Mr Scott Ramsay, of Auckland. ' “ The weights for this year’s Melbourne Cup will be declared much later than in previous years. They will not be issued until July 22,” said Mr Ramsay, who has just returned from Australis. - ' Bruce probably will make racing history by being flown across 'the Tas-. man, but this would depend on suitable transport being arranged. Ha added that although Bruce was in the top class in New Zealand, it did not necessarily follow that he would be a top-liner in Australia. In Mr Ramsay’s opinion the New Zealand standard was below tlie'Australian.
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Evening Star, Issue 26138, 27 June 1947, Page 4
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