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JUST MARK WINS
HIS 16th RACE
Just Mark , who won the Melbourne Racing Club's Hurdle
race of Caulfield on Saturday, is owned by Mr Don Dureau,
well known throughout the butchering trade in Victoria. It
was the horse's 16th win. He has been set for the Grand National
Hurdle race provided he gets a reasonable weight. Just Mark
Was bred at Holbrook (NSW).
Mr Don Bureau has
owner butcher's shops and
racehorses in many places.
Formerly he had both in i
New Zealand, especially in|
the Auckland district. At
present his business in
terests are at Eltham and
Malvern (Melbourne) ,
where his two sons lfok
after the shops.
Formerly Mr Dureau was
in northern Victoria. He
had shops at Elmore and
Rochester and also raced
horses in those districts.
For him Ardrossan once
won a double in one
afternoon at Corop, near
i Rochester. The well -
known pony Dandy won
four races and Kapai scor
ed 'six times.
Just Mark was bred by
! Mr W. Cottrell at Mountain
;View Station, near Hol-
| brook (NSW). The geld-
ling is by Footmark from
PCarlsara, and Mr Dureau
has had him since he was
ia two-year-old.
i There is good reason to
'believe that Just Mark will
I stay well over jumps. He
is eight years old. but his
I dam was by Ronsard and
the stamina of foals from
Ronsard mares is well ap-
I preciated.
T rafalgar
Pearlsard's dam was
Pearl Court by Double
Court and belongs to the
same branch of the Rose-
mark family that produced
Trafalgar, Sydney James,
Beau John and Corrobo-
ree.
When Just Mark won on
Saturday it represented a
winning hat-trick. The
gelding carried 9.12 and
won very easily although,
most people at Caulfield
thought that Joe Mul-
cahy's Xenurus had a mort
gage on the race.
Just Mark outstayed
the opposition very com
fortably. If he gets a
reasonable weight in the
Grand National Hurdle he
will be very hard to beat.
He has a lot of pace for
a . hurdler and it is not
generally realised that
when ridden by W. Wil
liamson one day at' Morn-
ington he beat that smart
sprinter Trentside, piloted
by J. Purtell.
At Moe (Gippsland) he
won a double In an after
noon. Then he was beaten
two half-heads in a Werri-
bee Cup.
Xenurus has fair form
lately. Two minor places
preceded Saturday's minor
placing. Third money
went to Salandra, trained
by Stan Smithers.
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