A WAIRATO PROSPECT.
Gay Fort will be the lone South Island 'tontender for Waikato Steeplechase honours at Te Raj)a tomorrow and with 9.13 he should make a strong bid to win. Though Gay Fort failed to win a, rac" in Melbourne at the epd of tilie .f^f.^wihter season, he. did hot.,haye ,luck jdri Ms-side aiid he looks liko going long >yay Jhis' wihter. ^Be3Ep'rtf,'-^ift^^i0:sA.uHtralia, he had left tlie iiupi'CSsTon . tliat he would win big fSteeplechasesPaiid tlie- expericnce he has ,%'ad' in -the pakf" should, stand to him. ■ Gay Fork has liad four races- lately, three oii the flat and one over hurdles. He was runner-up to Grand Forest in the Tekapo Hurdles at Washdyke at his last start and his form on that occasion left no doubt that he was in line for an early winning turn.
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 May 1947, Page 6
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137A WAIRATO PROSPECT. Chronicle (Levin), 9 May 1947, Page 6
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