DESERT GOLD.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1275, 14 March 1918, Page 3

DESERT GOLD.

AN AUSTRALIAN VIEW By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. (Rcc. March 14, 9.10) SYDNEY, March 14. The "Daily Telegraph" critic says that an analysis of the circumstances of Desert Gold's defeat in the -King's Plate ought to satisfy unprejudiced people that it does not prove that the "mare cannot run two miles, and a further test should be awaited. She may not be a true stayer, one of the Carbine kind, but it is surely too early to jump to the conclusion that the champion mare is only a middle distance performer.