MUST HAVE HURT
TO see Oratrix win the New Zealand Cup would/not please the handicapper overmuch. - Of course, when he let her m at 7.1 he was handicapping on what she had done, but if he could have only foreseen that Metropolitan. In Sydney the mare carried nearly twelve pounds more, and then ran second to Jocelyn. Thos;e ; i present at Randwick that day were loud, m their opinion that the mare was more than a shade unlucky m the running. Of course, with her light weight she had to be taken straight home for the Cup, and how she won is now history. ' But how would, the handicapper liked to have had another crack at her— oh, how?
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NZ Truth, Issue 1197, 8 November 1928, Page 14
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119MUST HAVE HURT NZ Truth, Issue 1197, 8 November 1928, Page 14
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