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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IV, Issue 199, 17 May 1894, Page 10

It is said that Fred Archer during his short career had 2611 wins.. . c A racer on the other side bit half his tongue off recently when being given a ball, and died from the effects of the injury. Tarcoola’s owner never bets. He holds that it is a very inferior horse that cannot pay for himself when he wins. “Dr. Ross, late of Maoriland, is now manager of New York Tatts., and speaks none to favourably of Australian blood stock.”—(.ZWZzr/tn).* Writing of the late once famous mare Dutch Oven, “ Robin ■ Hood,” the Australasian's special commissioner in London, writes:—“ She was bred and raced by the late Lord Falmouth, and had a wonderfully successful two-year-old career, winning nine races out of twelve contested by her, and the stakes amounting to. Z 9,400. In the Derby of the following year (1882) she was unplaced, owing to her being amiss, but in the autumn she was in her old form again, and easily secured the Yorkshi.e Oaks. Notwithstanding this she was allowed to go out for the Doncaster St. Leger at the outside odds of 40 to.i, and her brilliant victory is a matter of history. After winning three races as a four-year-old, she was sent to the stud, and at Lord Falmouth’s great sale in 1884 she was knocked down to Lord Fitzwilliam at 3,200 guineas. As a brood mare she was not a success.” Xlife'