GRAND NATIONAL 50 YEARS AGO
Some 50 years ago one of our premier racing events, the Grand National, was held at Oamaru, on a course lent by the Hon. Mathew Holmes. It was a course sufficient to create terror in the hearts of the jockeys. There were stone dykes over four feet in height to jump, a formidable metalled by-road and a dug-out watorhole styled a water-jump with a downhill approach, and take-off the negotiation of which almost beggars description. Yes! Our grandfathers were determined to have their sport and they were determined to smoke the right tobacco. Fifty years ago Dill’s Best had already been on the market 30 years and was acclaimed by hundreds of thousands of smokers as “a mighty tine tobacco.’* To-day it is with us still, only now millions sing its praises. a.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 525, 30 November 1928, Page 6
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138GRAND NATIONAL 50 YEARS AGO Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 525, 30 November 1928, Page 6
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