"I say, Poddy, that is the worst-looking horse you drive I ever saw. Why don't you you fatten him up ?" " Fat hira up, is it ? Faix! the poor baste can hardly carry the little mate that's on him now," replied Paddy. This is the way a Canadian paper heads its report of Hanlan's victory over Trickott: "Victory!" —The Little Canuck Scoops the Antipodean !"—" Ned stops to Wipe his Face in the Thames !"—Utter Discomfiture of the Corn-stalk's Friends, and Backers'." —" The Championship of tho Word Won in 26 Minutes 19 Seconds !"
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2993, 28 January 1881, Page 4
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