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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IV, Issue 171, 2 November 1893, Page 3

The cable has informed us of the win of Lord Dunraven’s mare Molly Morgan in the Cambridgeshire Stakes of 500sovs, at the Newmarket Houghton meeting. The second horse was Raeburn, who defeated Isinglass, the son of Isonomy, in the Lancashire Plate of B,ooosovs, and the third horse was Prisoner, another son of Isonomy.

The Sydney Referee says it has been found impossible to train Zalinski, and he will therefore go to the stud.

This is what “ Terlinga ” says in his account of the Open Flat Handicap in the last Melbourne Hunt Club races about Portsea, a Melbourne Cup candidate, who has been largely backed in the double books with the Caulfield Cup winner Sainfoin:—“Portsea’s performance under 9.11 was a very fine one. He finished fourth, easing up. Never has this sturdy little son of Neckersgat been in such buckle, and if he keeps in his present form, until the day of the Melbourne Cup he will take no end of beating. There is no better stayer in Australia, and we know that in an end-to-end race over two miles, it is well nigh impossible to bring such a sticker to ordinary handicap cattle by means of weight. Stayers are a scarce commodity, and Portsea has no proved superior in this respect.” If he wins the Melbourne Cup the books will be badly hit.