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SIR SIMPER AT FIVE YEARS AUSTRALIAN ENGAGEMENTS Sir Simper, bred and owned Dy Mr. W. T. Hazlett, of Invercargill, is again a candidate for important cup honours in Australia next season. With a number of victories to his credit in tne early spring last year and a particularly brilliant effort in the Toorak Handicap, in which he carried 8.7 and beat a field of 18. he wsi regarded as a certainty for the Caulfield Cup, in whiyh he was weighted at 7.5, and he started a hot favourite. He suffered defeat, but his third to Journal and Farndale was not without merit, for he encountered serious setbacks in the running, and the general summing up was that he had bad luck to lose. Tn the forthcoming Caulfield Cup Sir Simper is weighted at 8.8, and he has Hb. less in the Melbourne Cup. The critics argue that he has received his fullest deserts, but add that there is no reason why he should not win a good place among the five-year-olds during the season.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 200, 27 August 1935, Page 4
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176FROM SOUTHLAND Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 200, 27 August 1935, Page 4
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