UNDERWOOD STAKES RACING ARCHIVE - Its A Match Race It was the best of times back in 1992. Show Day was a Public Holiday until Jeff Kennett removed it in 1994 (Thanks Jeff). The Show Day races at Caulfield featured the Underwood Stakes, Rupert Clarke Stakes, and Guineas Preludes and formed part of one of the best racing days of the year, until the Melbourne Racing Club split the program up a few years ago (Thanks MRC). And a state government owned TAB sponsored a match race between LETS ELOPE and BETTER LOOSEN UP on Thousand Guineas Day that year. That is - before the TAB was privatised (Thanks Again, Jeff) In those days, horses didnt have Facebook pages, or Twitter accounts or social media managers. Nup. In those days, the cutting edge of equine promotion was the very under rated and extremely humble badge. Worn with pride and with a smile. And still around 22 years later, long after the last clever tweet was forgotten. We cant recall another match race in the last 25 years. Has there been any others? Always a lot of talk about them but they never seem to come to anything.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 09:05:01 +0000
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