MR. REDWOOD'S RACE-HORSE MANUKA.
The Omeo took to Melbourne from Nelson Mr Redwood's team of racehorses, consisting of Manuka, Peeress, and Misfortune. Of the appearance and chances of these animals in Melfjourne, a writer in a Nelson paper says: —With a considerable amount of squeezing and pushing, we worked our way into Manuka's box, and certainly the splendid creature, whose fame is now so wide-spread, is a sight worth going any distance to see. He is a dark brown, standing 16 hands and half an inch, and, view him which way you will, it is impossible to find a fault in him. The beautiful sloping shculder, and immense length from the stiile to the hock, leave no room for doubt that you see before you the qualities required for speed, while the short back, immense muscular development in arms and thighs, and the powerful hind quarters, speak of enormous strength. With regard to his powers of eudurance, we are all too well acquainted with his performances on the Canterbury course to be iu the least sceptical on that point. It is the opinion of those who are well able to speak on this subject that seldom, if ever, has such a horse made his appearance even on the Derby course, and should no accident happen to him we fully expect to hear that the Melbourne Cup and several other of the plums of the meeting he is going to attend have fallen to the lot of his enterprising owner. Peeress and Misfortune are, both of them, beautiful specimens of the race-horse, but to receive that meed of admiration they deserve, they should be viewed before their grand stable companion a precaution which we unfortunately neglected to take.
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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 560, 28 September 1869, Page 2
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287MR. REDWOOD'S RACE-HORSE MANUKA. Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 560, 28 September 1869, Page 2
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