MELBOURNE CUP SCRATCHINGS.
[to the editor.] Sir —Could you settle a slight misunderstanding by inserting in your paper the names of the horses “ scratched ” for the Melbourne Cup, 1884, up to date ? If you can, you will greatly oblige. H. W. S, Stafford, July 31, 1881. [Calma, Stockwell, Sardius, Dirk Hatteraick, Radames, Merman (not Merino, as telegraphed), Illusion, Jewel, The Maid, Coir, and Gipsey King, are all that wo have been yet apprised of. In our list of the weights given on the 2nd July, The Maid, The Agerit, Battalion--, and Fernlea, all at Gst. lOBj., were, welind, unaccountably 00111111163*. There were 134 suU,.—El». K. T.]
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Kumara Times, Issue 2531, 1 August 1884, Page 2
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