The Champion Horse Carbine

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 47, 4 October 1890, Page 4

The Champion Horse Carbine

It was prophesied last season '• .Phaeton " iil Jhe k Au^cilanc^ weekly 1 News) by maW Of the AiwtralW experts that if Carbine trailed on' Ml : right, he would be even, a better five- > year-old than he was a three or four; ■ and, from the mansesiir^hioh hehW • opened his career this, season, there* ,•; seems a likelihood of 'the prophecy ■ being verified by facts. Oathe open- , : ing day of «ths AuatraUttu Jockey 'Club's meeting he^ha^qp difficulty in : romping over his opponents, in , .the ■-: Spring Stakes (one^ul^and a-half>;; • And on the second day^in>t^e contest t' .for the Cravenjglate^n^ija^le afl4{^- •. - quarter), he oixce more '.demonstrated what a truly ,g;r^t^^OMe,he. r iß by - defeating the itju-ep-year-oia . Megaphone in the Drilliant time of ::2m. 75., which, I may v remjark^ lowers. i the record for that paßfcioailaV-jouriiey, . Abercorn'e ,time (2m. 7^s.) in the Melbourne Stakesi M the J iarit-V.R.Cv Spring Meeting being the previous fastest record. """* v v y, •* L <~~] Summed up^G&rbfue'b record up to ' date stands aa fellows:: —

The following shows the;Bumbßr<of . times Carbine. has won over the various distances : — ; sfor. 6fur. 7ftir. lm. If m. l£m. 2co. Bm. 14 2 4 8 2 , r 6 .»8'" Carbine's victories during the present week have^'fiaid;t]tie elfeqt of ijais-. ing his wiuniug.^tat-'to ii^SSß,^helargest amount won by any racehorse in thw oolonießP^ V; '' ' ' *- „' ■

FirtftrSegodd.lThM.Ußplacea. 1 .At 2 years 5 0 0 0 At 3 years 9 8 10 At 4 years 9 2 2 1 At 5 years 2 „0. X( 0, Of 2^ A - 8 1 '<■