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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1581, 12 August 1920, Page 14

Warplane, the four-year-old son of Martian —Adelicia, who as a two-year-old raced with much success, but during the past season was only raced on one occasion, is again working on the Awapuni tracks, and considerable interest will be centred in his reappearance with the colours up. On Saturday the lion. E. W. Alison, M.L.C., received the rather discomfiting information from Julian, their trainer, that both Slowcaoch and Golden Petal had very bad colds, and their owner decided not to go to the Grand National meeting in consequence. It is very bad luck for an owner to have horses right almost up to the time of running and then to have them take sick. There is a lot of luck in racing, good and bad. Slowcoach was one of the muchfancied candidates for both his engagements at Riccarton.