FIRST CLASH
Ajax And Defaulter MAY BE NEXT SATURDAY Sportsmen throughout Australia and New Zealand are awaiting the. first meeting of Ajax and Defaulter, and it may eventuate at Rosehill on Saturday. * When nominations were taken for the Rawson Stakes, of £5OO, weight-for-age, with allowances, nine furlongs, ' both horses figured in the list. It will be a great day for Rosehill if they face the barrier, and it is to be hoped they will. Some of the greatest horses to race in Australia have competed in this popular even t.
Ajax ha,s won .18 races in succession, and he requires one more to equal the feat of Gloaming, who won 19 in a row’. Defaulter, who has w r on 15 of his last 16 starts, and the last eight on end, is the champion three-year-old of New Zealand, but when the last mail left his work in .Sydney had been restricted to steady tasks. In addition to the two topnotehers, Allunga, Cathartes, Gold Spark, Jlosaic, Gilltown, slaikai, Early Bird, Silver Standard, King's Head, Gold Rod, Spear Chief, and St. Constant have also been entered for the Rawson Stakes.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 151, 22 March 1939, Page 17
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189FIRST CLASH Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 151, 22 March 1939, Page 17
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