DIFFICULT TO SELECT
STAYERS IN IMPORTANT HANDICAPS.
Topweights for an important handicap like the Melbourne Cup show how difficult it is for a buyer to get hold of a stayer, no matter how closely he may study breeding. Of the first dozen horses in the Cup weights only two are by the same sire—the New Zealanders, Round Up and Catalogue. They are aged geldings by Lord Quex. The Dominion has -two others in the first dozen, Mosaic (by Posterity) and Defaulter (by Defoe). Twenty-nine different stallions are represented in the 36 horses weighted down to 8.0, The Buzzard’s progeny being most numerous in that lot.
The Metropolitan, at a shorter distance, shows three stallions with two representatives each among the first dozen topweights, that honour being shared by Spearfelt, The Buzzard, and Beau Pere.
Ten of the first twenty in the list are New Zealand bred, which might suggest that any buyer has a better chance of picking up a fair distance horse in the Dominion than in Australia.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1939, Page 9
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169DIFFICULT TO SELECT Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1939, Page 9
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