DEFEAT OF PAPYRUS.
AN AUSTRALIAN VIEW. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received October 24, 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, October 24. Mr Somor, secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society, who is an accepted authority, commenting on the defeat of Papyrus, says (that the horse must have got tho surprise of his life when asked to gallop at Belmont Park on Saturday. No Australian trainer would think of galloping a hoTse on an American dirt track after an inch of rain had fallen. He saw a race run at Belmont last year after the rain through three inches of sticky mud and the horses and jockeys were spattered from head to foot. The horses wore hoods and eye protectors.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17179, 24 October 1923, Page 7
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