Tommy Corrigan.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume V, Issue 216, 13 September 1894, Page 10

Tommy Corrigan.

(From the Australasian.') Nevermore o’er rasping double, With the field behind, in trouble. Will the prince of horsemen sweep ; For with nerve and heart unshaken Corrigan has faced and taken Life’s last stiffest, stoutest leap. Thirty years of charmed existence, Wearied not the dread persistence Of a horse who never tires ; And to-day the fleshless rider Of this white, unbacked outsider Scored a win. So say the wires. Riders dear to Western story, Men who raced for love and glory, Sport the scarlet, grasp the rein; Spirits who have known the gladness In four miles of pace-bom madness; Don the colours once again. Shades of horsemen long departed, Rise and greet a gallant-hearted Brother from the nether shore; Bowes and Wilson, reckless Pender, Singer, girt with death-won splendour, Mount your phantom steeds once more. . Come on blood-like horse and hunter, Then, when Charon, gruffest punter, Brings his crazy craft ,to land ; Offer Tom no half-bred “ neddy,” But when Gannon mutters, •* Ready,” Let him handle old “ Lone Hand.” Kenneth Mackay.

A moderately easy mile in i min 48sec shows that Projectile is coming into good form. Projectile is in the A.J.C. Metropolitan Stakes at 7.7, and in the Epsom Handicap at 7.11. A full brother to Mr Sam. Hordern’s 1050gns. Wellington'Park purchase of last year made his appearance at Mr Morrin’s establishment on Monday last, when the Musket—Locket mare, Necklace, produced a colt to Castor.