AN A.J.C. DERBY CANDIDATE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1482, 19 September 1918, Page 9

AN A.J.C. DERBY CANDIDATE.

As we have some of the progeny of the imported horse, The Nut, in Auckland, Spanner, who is doing well at Ellerslie being one of them, the following from the pen of “Pilot,” in the “Referee,” will be of interest: “There is no Derby candidate at Randwick looking brighter than Dick Meagher, with whom the change from Warwick Farm to Sydney has thoroughly agreed, says that writer. He does not carry any lumber, and as his conformation is also that of a stayer, both his owner and trainer will have cause for disappointment if he fails to show up in some of this season’s long races, even though he did not shine in a gallop with Biplane, Wolaroi and Co. the other morning. Dick Meagher’s sire, The Nut, was a fair stayer, and his dam, Far Away, is by Eager from Mousme, by St. Simon from Fanchette. Eager, an excellent performer himself, is the sire of the dam of those good English horses, Jaeger and Junior.”