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CARBINE AND POITREL Australian Critics Differ About Greatness of Pair of Racing Champions. The Aiistialian lurf critic* are at war over the in.-i-its of Ioitrel and Carbine. I«nh cliamnions of their day and boll, whales .,, racing Some of tin-opinions are worth recording Par matance, arc find "it I wood," ia the ana iralasian. amrrtinf that "Poitrel has not the ■npeii pa.e Carbine nninil, but is just as ;o m1 a fighter." A writer iii the Sydney Kef. r. ■.-. on the other hand, think- Cere i- doubt a- !■■ Ioitrel being "the greatest two-miier Australia e.-r saw. But .just to show how opinion* . on. , rn hag the merits of horse- can lake shape and dif fer. we ma. .|iiole tTom an article by •Milro . whi.Ii raises the nnaattoa wlieth.r Carbine wa- tile phenomenon In has generaHy been esteemed The Into Thomas 1ayten. a leading trainer, alwav* declared, -ay- "MUror." that Ahercora was better than his . ontempoiarv. Carbine He heUered thai Abercorn canal have won the Mellx.urne Cup of 1883 with 15" pounds up. but his owner. Mi White, would not let him run. Carbine ran -.-. ond that year, carrying 11" i- da. Pour d. * later he met Abercorn at Weight for-age, over two and ori.-npiarter miles, and wa- "beaten to bl aa ■■- In "Musket. of the Syilne.v Itel.ree. Carbine has a danght] champion. 11.- prescnta atatiatlcM ■rith ■ i. w t,. ahawfanj that it is unfair to ram pare Carbines winnings with ta t Poitrel. In the sexen events run at Band a ick . wln.-h I *| " lioraea won. the fatal ralae in Cnrbinea dh] naa onl] 5,688, arbereaa Poitrel wa- ..-edited with 347 125. When Carbine won the Au-tralian Jockey :Iul. Crarea Plate in lm he rereired 32.235. Poitrel ran -....nd in this event, and for so doing wa awarded 33.4HJ8 "Mihrar." ia the 8ydnej Mail, states that in Anatralia alone the ralae of the lac- I arbine won ontrighl was 34,810. Thirtj jrearx later the nam erenta were "or h 04,875. "Musket" . ■- on lo remind us that Cirbin.- won thirty-three ra.es was aecond in -i. third in three, and uii|d.u id once only Poitrel won fifteen ra.es ontright, and dead heal.-d for first pl.-ne in two others, ran aecond in three, third in three, and unplaced in fourteen
