Mestor Avon Favourite For Sydney Cup
(Received 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Mestor Avon, who win the Autumn Cup, one mile and a half, at Warwick Farm on Saturday, has been penalised lOlbs and will carry 7.3 in the Sydney Cup. In a little over a week this horse has risen from obscurity to being favourite for the Sydney Cup. He is a six-year-old. whose career was interrupted when he broke down in a hind leg a couple of years ago. On recovering he competed at country meetings and had not won a race worth more than £35 until he burst into' the limelight by winning the Autumn Handicap last Saturday week.
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Northern Advocate, 23 March 1937, Page 9
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