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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1539, 23 October 1919, Page 12

Poitrel -and Biplane are each being spelled again. While running in the Randwick Plate Sasanof strained a ligament. Report says he may not race again. He has Won £18,040 in stakes. Rossini is a December foal, and “Pilot,” of the Sydney “Referee,” suggests that he should be a useful horse at four or five years old. The Commissioner of Taxes draws the attention of taxpayers to' the notification appearing in this week’s issue that the due date of payment of land tax for the current year is on Friday, the 7th day of November, 1919, and that demands will be posted on or about the 31st day of the mbnth. A conservative estimate' is that 61,000 people were : present ati'Randwick on Derby Day, 75,000 on Metropolitan day, 40,000 bn Craven Plate day, and 45,000 on ' Rand wick Plate day, an aggregate of 221,000-. as against 170,000 last year. Mr. Stead’s two-year-old Delight put up a record for the race when she won the A.J.C. Grimcrack. She was beaten at Caulfield in the Glynn Stakes,, but may be found handy in the Maribyrnong Plate, though penalised 101 b., as were Maltine, Desert Rose and Sweet Lady, winners of that event. Absolute favourites won six of 25 races at Randwick, and in two other cases- a winner and another shared favouritism. No first favourite scored in a handicap,. which is accepted as a tribute to the A.J.C. handicapper, Mr. G. F. Wilson. The heavyweight division were more successful at Randwick than usual, as mentioned in this paper last week.