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! i 1 I ! ; • I I RACING OF THE MELBOURNE CUP WINNER. Patrobas. this years winner of to* Victoria Derby and the Melbourne Cup. Australias greatest race. is a three-vear-old brown colt by Wallace from Siz- zle. bv Simmer from Oudine. by Coldsboroegh. and . was bred by Messrs. P. and W. Mitchell at Bringe- brong Stud. l"p|ier Murray. New South Wales. As h yearling Iatn has was sold in Sydney for BM i guineas. C. Wheeler buying him on behalf of Mrs. YYlddls. whose husband. J. Widdis. is a well known sup|iorter of the turf in Australia. As a two yea r .hi there was nothing special in the form shown by Iatrli.is in bit two races, but bis defeat of I.udo viteh in tie Victorian Amateur Turf Clubs llooi::i Trial in SeptemU-r last, and his seeond to 1-a v.-ndo in the VietoriMu Racing Associations October Stakes this year, brought him prominently into i notio. Subsequently lie won the Caultield Guineas. and that he did not get closer than sixtli in the Caultield Cup is attributed to his not being a colt a lijlit boy can ride effectively.
