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THREE NEW AUSTRALIAN RECORDS MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia, December 31. Three now Australasian records were made this month. In Xew Zealand, at Auckland, December 2S. Gloaming, 3, by The Welkin Light, 111 pounds, in the Islington Plate, at One mile, won lather easily in 1:37. This beat Desert Golds 1:37, made last year. At Randwick. Sydney, New South Wales, Decern -ISF -,i;,Arc" Karelin, 5, by .Marble Arch Seaton Ella. 114 pounds, won a mile and five-eighths handicap in 2:45.-. This beat The Fortune Hunters 2:45.. made in 1910, At Randwick also, two days later, December 2S. Wedding Day, i. by Antonio Wedding Present, 110 pounds, won the Tattersalls Club Cup, one inlle and a half, in 2:30. This beat Poitrels mark of 2:31. made last October. On the same day in the New Years Gift Handicap. Satin Bird, .5, 115 pounds, bent Ardrossan and a good band, the mile, in 1:374. Thsi also was a new record until displaced two days later in New Zealand by the speed marvel, Gloaming.
