FAME FOR DOMINION HORSES
SYDNEY, Sept. 4. Sir Regent 's Metropolitan win coupled with Gold Rod's victory in the Epsom is notable. These two Chief Ruler f our-year-olds have won a . distinction for their sire that appears to have been gained only once previously in the history of the great Randwick double. In 1878 Viscount won the Epsom and Democrat won the Metropolitan. Both were the progeny of Gemma-di-Vegy, who with Chief Ruler shares the honour of having sired the two horses to win the Epsom and Metropolitan in any one year, although Masquerader, by The Drummer, won both events in jl8S2. I The last occasion on which New Zea!land bred horses won the double.( was in 1934, when Silver Ring won the 'Epsom and the Limond- Waterwiugs •horse, Waikare, Won the longer race. | In running second this year Silver 'Standard lived up to his reputation of 'last season, when he had a remarkable record of having been second in the Metropolitan (to Young Crusader), in the Caulfield Cup (to Northwind) and in the Melbourne Cup (to Wotan). He was also second in a number of other races.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 10, 5 October 1937, Page 11
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