Cup To Cavalry
More than one listener telephoned the station to congratulate the 2YD Sports Club compére atter the first revived session, and again after the second, on October 31; but few heard his review of the Melbourne Cup with such personal interest as a New Zealander who happened to be on the spot in Egypt in 1917 when a wounded horse came in for attention. He was given charge of this horse. It had shrapnel in its flank, and he looked after it for two or three weeks. Its name was Clean Sweep, and it had gone to Egypt with the Australian Light Horse. The same man heard the 2YD announcer mention Clean Sweep during the session on October 31. It was the same horse, and when it was wounded in Egypt it must have been 20 years old. In 1900 it won the Cup easily by one and a-half lengths from Maltster and Alix, carrying seven stone-as a three-year-old, with 20 to 1 odds.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 73, 15 November 1940, Page 20
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166Cup To Cavalry New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 73, 15 November 1940, Page 20
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