REMARKABLE RECORD.
A CONSISTENT RACEGOER
Saturday's was the fiftieth Wellington Cup—the Jubilee Cup. Among ilu/sc present was the veteran onelegged horseman, Mr Walter Armstrong, who has seen 43 . out of 50 Cups run, and is hoping to witness at least another fifteen or twenty. Mr Armstrong, as a jockey, rode in the first ( Cup meeting (not in the Cup race itself), and the man he rode for that day (in 1&08) was also present at Trentham on Saturday in the person of Mr John Hume. On that far-away Cup day, Mr Armstrong won a hack race on Taipo, won the Racing Club's handicap on Cloud, and in the Licensed Victuallers' Handicap was beaten by a head on Rattling Raven by Maid o' the Mist (the grand-dam of Dudu, which won the Cup in 1888). Mr Armstrong gives the name of the winner of the first Wellington Cup as Flying Jib. Mr Armstrong lost his leg through collision with a post when riding a horse called The Diver at Opaki in 1878. Not only can Mr Armstrong claim to have seen 4.1 WellingtoH Cups decided, but he has witnessed the last 26 in succession. I In accounting for Insurrection's race being the fiftieth Cup, it should be explained that in 1871 and 1872 there were no races held at all; and in .1873 there was a meeting, but no Cup race.
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Northern Advocate, 27 January 1922, Page 7
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230REMARKABLE RECORD. Northern Advocate, 27 January 1922, Page 7
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