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GELDING QUESTION IN AUSTRALIA Gloaming is only the second gelding winner of the Australian Jockey Club Derby the previous one being Bob Ray in 1895 Many racing men are op ¬ posed to geldings running in such races but in my opinion it is better that they should twice win a race such is the Australian Jockey Club Derby in fiftyfour years than adopt a course which must necessarily tend to a great increase in the number of undesirable stallions That is bound to be the result of barring geldings from Derbys as no owner will have any colt unsexed while there is a remote possibility of winning a 5000pouutl stake Sydney Referee
