ROUGH BUT HOMELY
\y HEN Wallace Mac, with O. Reed in the saddle, was doing his preliminary for the Wingatui Trot at the Otago Hunt meeting, he looked very rough in appearance, and his legs were thickly coated with hair, says the “Southland Times.” Outside patrons passed many unkind references, including the well-known term, “He has as much chance as the hairy dog,” and “Look at Ovie on the hairy goat.” Many were the expressions of disgust when the “roughie,” pacing in solid fashion all the way, cut the good favourite Kid Logan out of second place and deprived them of a dividend, while one gleeful supporter of Wallace Mac was heard murmuring a verse of a popular ragtime song which contains this line: “You can't judge a book by its cover.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 771, 18 September 1929, Page 13
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132ROUGH BUT HOMELY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 771, 18 September 1929, Page 13
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