AUSTRALIAN HORSES IN ENGLAND

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 464, 15 June 1899, Page 15

AUSTRALIAN HORSES IN ENGLAND

Newhaven 11. and Survivor cleared right away from the other runners at the finish of the City and Suburban, and though the latter looked to have a great chance at the turn, the chestnut beat him very easily. The time, 2min 18sec, for the mile and a quarter, was particualarly slow, and shows there must have been a lot of loafing in the early part of the race, as the track was in good order. Newhaven 11. was ridden by Mornington Cannon, who has been remarkably lucky in connection with this race, this being his fifth victory in it. Newhaven’s win was well received and one writer says it deserved to be, as since the horse has been in England there has been no attempt to disguise his form or hoodwink the handicappers by running him unfit. The “Special Commissioner” of the “London Sportsman,” who would have nothing but Newhaven from the time the weights were issued, is very jubilant at the result, and says : —“lt was a great day for Australia, though here, let me say it, not from the cock-a-hoop point of view, but solely in regard to the foolish tendensy there has been to decry the Colonial thoroughbred. It is now proved to demonstration that a good horse in Australia is a good one in England. No one can ever again deny it, and I know of only two horses that I would not back Newhaven 11. to beat over the City and Suburban course. One of them is Cyllene and the other is Flying Fox. Snrvivor battled it out well with his fellow Colonial, and it was a misfortune for ‘Mr Theobalds’ to knock up against one of Newhaven’s class. A good win, however, is probably only deferred, and it might come off in the Jubilee Stakes at Kempton, when Survivor will have 7st 121 b to carry, and as he has not been ten months in England, he is likely to go on improving, especially now that he will get the advantage of sunshine. Both he and Newhaven 11. are horses with rare limbs and ample bone, and though Merman was looking off color, he also let paddock critics see what imperishable limbs are The fourth Colonial, Uniform, is one of the best-looking horses that, ran, and he showed fine action as they cantered down. Moreover, Robinson fancied him a little, and took ‘thirties’ about him; but Uniform may be a long time before he shakes off the effects of his fever last Autumn, if ever he does so. No matter how well a horse looks, the fever is apt to leave weakness of some kind or other, just as influenza does in the case of man.”