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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1574, 24 June 1920, Page 14

The success of Fisher, the Maniapoto gelding, at Randwick on Saturday must have been pleasing to a good many 7 consistent followers of that somewhat disappointing steed. The race he won, the Renown Hurdle Race, was worth £lOOO and carried with it a piece of plate worth £5O, so that Mr. J. McEwan has good reason to be satisfied with his venture. Fisher comes from a staying familyon both sides, and as the distance extended to two miles and a-half that was calculated to give him a chance. It has been his jumping and erratic conduct, however, that have been the cause of him not winning good races before to-day. Silent Way, who won on the first day of the A.J.C. meeting, was' third this time, but the ex-New Zealanders have done well in securing the chief hurdle prizes at the Royal meeting. Parkdale, a son of the ex-New Zealand Royal Artillery, ran a dead-heat with Silverton in the Prince of AVales Cup, with Red Cardinal a he.ad away, and Compromise, referred to in Clubman notes on an earlier page, won the Rothesay Steeplechase, and he, like Fisher, Parkdale and Chai, the other winners on the same day, has the Musket blood through horses bred in the Dominion.