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ENGLISH HORSES WIN IN AUSTRALIA Magpie, which ran second to Hay Crusader in the Two Thousand Guineas last year, made a successful first apiK-arance on the Australian turf on April 4. when he won the Elder Stakes at Adelaide. This I is a weighl-for-age race run over one mih; and an eighth, woitli SL.IHK. The field included Wedge, one of the best weight forage horses in Australia, which in February last defeated the champion 1 Desert Gold in the Futurity Stakes. Magpie was 1 some time coming to hand, but lie won brilliantly under adverse conditions amid great enthusiasm. The Elder Stakes was founded in memory of Sir Thos. Elder, one of the pioneers of South Aus tralia. On April • Messrs. Itobinson ,.,,„! ci„ik wen- again successful in the Adelaide Gup oi" .. " U0 run over one mile and five-eighths. This race they secured with the horse Elsdon. | v Symington — Electra winner of the Gnu Thousand Guineas. He won a desperate race by a head in record time. Another English horse in the same ownership to win at Adelaide is Eseoinb, by Challacombe — Escalade. F. Bullock rode Magpie and Elsdon.
