Here is a * tip ’ for the owners of sue. cessful and popular horse racing cracks. The noble owner of a certain famous English race horse (Ladas) has just had the nails of the plates worn on an auspicious occasion dipped in gold and mounted as safety pins for his friends. This was done some years ago, and the
number of nails that Ormonde wore for
the Derby would have shod a stud of the size of all our New Zealand owners put together. What price, for instance, could not have been commanded for the nails—gold plated as above—which Carbine wore when he got home in the Melbourne Cup on that never-to-be forgotten occasion 1
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue XI, 15 September 1894, Page 246
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114Untitled New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue XI, 15 September 1894, Page 246
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