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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1485, 10 October 1918, Page 13

A much greater surprise than the Spring Stakes at Randwick afforded was in store for racegoers all over the world last week in the defeat of that out-and-out good colt, Gainsborough, in the Jockey Club Stakes, of 10,000sovs, by Prince Chimay, a son of Chaucer, who won over seven furlongs at Newmarket last September. Having won the Two Thousand Guineas and the substituted races for the Derby and St. Leger and the Newmarket Gold Cup, extending to two miles and 24 yards, Gainsborough had come to be regarded as a very fine colt of h’s age and unlikely to suffer defeat this season; indeed, he has been referred to as amongst the very best that have ever won the blue riband or “the triple crown.” Gainsborough’s sire, Bayardo, could stay, and had to his credit the St. Leger and Ascot Gold Cup, and his dam, Rosebud, was got by St. Frusquin, sire of St. Alwyne, whose son, Poitrel, as already referred to, effected the overthrow of Desert Gold.