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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IV, Issue 168, 12 October 1893, Page 8

The Australasian writer ‘ Terlinga’ evidently thinks highly of Brockleigh. Writing of him on September 30th, he says : —‘ The Epsom Handicap winner, Brockleigh, is quite a grand horse. Standing considerably over 16 hands, he possesses all the Goldsbrough power, and the only defect that can be urged against him is that he is a little on the leg. He arrived from Newcastle with a great reputation, which he fully justified, as he came right out from his field, and might have improved on the fast record of imin for the mile. Sainfoin was, probably, second best, but be was pinned in on the rails so long that by the time he got clear all chance of winning was gone. That he could have beaten a horse like Brockleigh is very improbable, but the fact remains that the Caulfield horse practically had no chance. When Brockleigh made his effort his superiority was so apparent that not much notice need be taken of the placings.’ /"io, 142 was passed through the totalisator at the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club’s Spring Meeting.