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AUSTRALIAN TURF NQTES Close to 500 trainers are registered with the Australian Jockey Club, but only sixty of that number have won ,500 or more since last August, the beginning of the present racing season in the "down under" country. G. Price is the leader, with twenty victories and about 0,000. An Australian writer of note rates Phar Lap and Peter Pan the two greatest horses of later day champions in the Antipodes. He believes Phar Lap was the better of the two. Totalizator receipts at the New Zealand Easter meetings were much larger this year than for several years past. The attendance record at Randwick is 92,287. made in 1922 on St. Leger day. This years crowd on the same day was 60,000. Queen of Song is the "iron horse" of New Zealand. She won the Riverton Cup on Easter Saturday, and the following evening entrained for Ricaarton 100 miles away where on Tuesday she won the Great Autumn Handicap, a feat never before accomplished, though attempted. One of the most extraordinary incidents in New Zealand racing happened recently when Big Dook and Pladie dead heated in the principal event at the Hawks Bay Jockey Club meeting, and the same pair duplicated that performance at Walrarapa, the second dead heat in the same week.
