Our Local Talent.
At the race meeting on Thursday and Friday our local horses showed up prominently, and won, and we congratulate our local friends on the result. On the first day three out of font events (Foul Play’s walk over cannot be considered a race). Mr W. C. Walsh’s colt Director secured two of the races —the Maiden Plate and County Stakes, and his victories have caused the metallicians to weep. Some of them were sweet on Naughty Boy for the Maiden, and another could see nothing but Flatcatcher in the County Stakes ; but these foregone conclusions proved to be delusive, and the colt our sporting writer has always cracked up won just as he liked. Many a jeer and laugh he has had to put up with, but his judgment has proved correct. West End, also, acquitted himself well in the Selling Race, and scored a win for his plucky owner.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 917, 12 February 1881, Page 4
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153Our Local Talent. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 917, 12 February 1881, Page 4
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