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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1500, 23 January 1919, Page 12

There were only five runners in the New Year’s Gift Handicap, of SOOsovs., at Randwick, won by Satin Bird in record time for the course, viz., lmin. 37%sec. Satin Bird carried 8.3, and is a five-year-old horse by Malster. The time shows that the Randwick course is in fast condition, though the winner is a brilliant horse. All the races on the same day were run very brilliantly. Balarang, the aged son of Challenger and Lady Wallace, with 9.12 up, ran six furlongs in lmin. 12%sec.; Mr. E. J. Watt’s two-year-old colt Pershore ran five and a-half furlongs, with 7.13, in lmin. 7%sec.; Wedding Day, a six-year-old, with 7.12, lowered Poitrel’s mile and ahalf record, covering the distance in 2min. 30%sec., the four-year-old gelding Greg, with 7.0, being beaten a head. Greg was sold at auction after the meeting for 1625 guineas.