Counting the Cost.
The Commonwealth Government seems to be out to make every post a winning one, and the 2J per cent, primage duty placed on horses imported to Australia will take some assessment. This week a very valuable lot of horses arrived in Sydney from New Zealand, and if they do not return within six months the above percentage of their value will be retained by the Australian Government. How their value is arrived at is hard to say, but the last winnings of the team shows what bighclass horses they are. Concentrate won £3875 in stake money, Gesture £2855, Cimabue £2360 and Royal Duke £685, a total of £9775. King Musket (Shambles —Hornbeam), who completed the team, did not earn any money' last season. The half-brother to Sir Roy and Don Quixote is a good-looker,...and is expected'to improyo with age.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 August 1930, Page 5
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