The first New Zealand Cup was run at Riccartou 50 years ago, and th* rider of the winning horse, Tasman, is still alive and very hearty. He is Robert Derret.t, at present living at Riccarton, who in the ’eighties and nineties of last century was the leading horseman in New Zealand. The New Zealand Cup, which was previously known as the Canterbury Jockey Club Handicap, was first mu » ISO'.. th" name being changed in 1883. Durrett today is an excepttonally rntivi maa who might very well pass as It- ilia* 60 years old. Ho refuses to disclooo his real age. It varies, he says, with the weather. .Sometimes it is 16, and sometimes it goes as high as 23, but M a general rule he maintains it is 21!
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 276, 4 November 1933, Page 7
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