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RECORD FOR DISTANCE IN SOUTH AFRICA AFRICAThe The Johannesburg Autumn Handicap of 1125 one amU onequarter miles run on March SO last was won by Recondite a horse by Matchmaker Recondite carried 114 pounds and a week later with i2i pounds pulled off tlie Merchants Handicap in 111 for threequarters Tlie track or the timing must have been wonderfully fast as on the same afternoon Sarrasin 119 pounds won the Gold fields Handicap one and threequarter miles in 258 The record of Sarrasin stands second in the list of records at one and threequarter miles The record is isEnglish English EnglishPommcrn Pommcrn 3 120 Newmarket 1915 25 25Golden Golden Measure 4 117 York 1915 2571 2571Florizel Florizel II 4 123 Manchester 1895 259 259American American AmericanMajor Major Daingerfield 4 120 Morris Park 1903257 South African AfricanSarrasin Sarrasin 4 119 Johannesburg 1918 UwSG UwSGCanadian Canadian Great Britain 4 120 Montreal 1914 303
