PROMISE OF COCKSURE
raced by partnership ' Cocksure, who was not disgraced in being beaten into third place in the Maiden Stakes at the Christchurch Hunt meeting last Saturday, as they are a most promising pair who finished ahea4 of him, is, another member of the ginaU .team that is raced in partnership by the Hon. G. R. Hunter and the Hon. P. C. Webb. On his latest - showings Cocksure should not be long in winning races, and he may be a useful sort of handicapper this season. Just turned three years old, he is a bay son of Cockpit sire of Wino, etc.) from the Kilbroney— Merit mare Sapient, a half-sistqr to Lineage and Whyte Melville who did good service for the partnership six or seven years back. Sapient has been unlucky at the stud since getting Cocksure, as thei next. year she missed and the following year she foaled dead twins.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1937, Page 4
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