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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 9 July 1917, Page 4

SPORTING.

V.R.C. GRAND NATIONAL

(Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.) MELBOURNE, July 8. At the V.R.C. Grand National meeting, *,he Grand National Hurdles resulted : —Merunqua 1, Bundong 2, LordL Grey 3. McNaught made practically all., the running, and.led, to the straight, wlva-e Merunqua, brilliantly ridden byCairns, overhauled the leaders, and in. the greatest race ever seen in thehurdles, beat Bundong by a head Time. 5.47 1-4.