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AUSTRALIAN IN GRAND NATIONAL Maba, sa Aastralbja horse, is catered for this years Graad Nationl Malm is a gelding, nine years aid, by the great Positaas from Fides, lie i- owned by the Goilsas, lather and son-. They are Aastraliaas and took Malm to England a yiai or ss ago. Bpeacer Gollan, the father, is the man who eighteen yens ago took Moifaa. the Aastra-asiaa winner of the Grand National Steeplechase of 1994, to England. Moifas got the same sort of English BC liin.itizing treataseat and schooling a Maba has bad and didnt have Means foundations to start with. But Moifaa won the National at Uo to l sader A. Birch, an unfashionable rider, and a great betting coup was made with him. In Novemboi. litis. ||abu, as a six-yesr-old, won a two-mile bardie race in Melbourne, Victoria, sader no pounds in 3:49. Thai was and still is the a.nstraUaa record. The Positano geldlag is in several haadiesps before bis Graad National en- u.igeineiil. The best are the 1iime of Wales of three and one-half miles at Sandowu. and Northamptonshire, ais.ยป of three and one-half miles, at Nottingham. If be comes out of those tsro race* v.n Malm may bare something to do with the Graad National finish.
