JUMPING BLOOD
MOROCCO’S PERFORMANCES Morocco, the top-weight m the Trial Hurdles at Riccarton on Saturday, is a four-year-old grey gelding by Theio from Arab Song, by Hunting Song from. Scarab, by Vasco from Rubelite, by Lord Rosslyn from Tourmaline, by Hotchkiss, and m 15 starts this season he has won twice and been placed seven times. At the Waikato meeting in May he cleared right away from the Winter Hurdle Handicap field to win by no less than 25 lengths Taken to Auckland he ran second to Duncan in the Penrose Hack Hurdles, being beaten by six lengths. On the final day of the Auckland meeting he was second again, this time to his stable-mate. Skywriter, the weights being 10.13 and 9.12 respectively At the re-cently-concluded meeting at Trentham, with 9.10 he finished fourth in the Lambton Hurdles to Foxchase 10.5. Bay Robe 10.7, and Desert Trek 10.7. He led for a mile and a-quarter, but tired Morocco has jumping blood, and he is assured of a -following at the Grand National meeting
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26842, 5 August 1948, Page 8
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