A CHAMPION SILENCES HIS CRITICS.— Because no three-year-old had carried 8.11 in victory in the Wellington Cup, there was a tendency in some quarters to discount the prospect of Defaulter making history. This photographic study of the finish of the Cup at Trentham reply of Mr. H. D. Greenword's crack colt. Aussie Ra, the third horse, put in a fine finishing run and just failed to catch The Sandwichman.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 45, 21 January 1939, Page 5
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69A CHAMPION SILENCES HIS CRITICS.— Because no three-year-old had carried 8.11 in victory in the Wellington Cup, there was a tendency in some quarters to discount the prospect of Defaulter making history. This photographic study of the finish of the Cup at Trentham reply of Mr. H. D. Greenword's crack colt. Aussie Ra, the third horse, put in a fine finishing run and just failed to catch The Sandwichman. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 45, 21 January 1939, Page 5
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