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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1524, 10 July 1919, Page 31

W. Booth still holds his position at the head of trainers successful in the Sydney area. He has been somewhat quiet recently, but Some Song gave him his 'fifteenth winner for the season. His last season’s metropolitan record was 21 wins.

Sir Thomas, who was expected to. start in the V.R.C. Grand National Hurdles, raced in Ireland over hurdles before coming to the Commonwealth, but recently gave a poor display of jumping at Caulfield, and Beltane, the Auckland-bred gelding, who got fifth in the National Hurdles, Rosyth, who claims Cruciform as dam, and the record holder Lord Nagar fell in the same race.

Prior to this year, when the nominations reached 279, the 265 in Sasanof’s year was a record entry for the Melbourne Cup. Sasanof won from 27 others. There were 34 starters in Malvolio’s year, when the nominations numbered 92, and 39 in Carbine’s year, which was the largest, and the nominations then were 149. 4