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many friends during the afternoon, amongst them being 

 Sr Ignacio Correas and Sr Unanue, but Sr Unzue was 

 away at Mar del Plata. There was an industrious " tip/ 1 

 however, that the last-named gentleman would win at 

 least three races. His trainer, Torterolo, however, 

 seemed to be anything but confident of his doing so, 

 except indeed that great, fine three-year-old filly, 

 Dorancia, must have a good chance for the sixth race, 

 but then she had Zigzag to beat, and this old horse 

 is a really brilliant sprinter. He had to give the filly 

 eight kilos, and he succeeded in doing so very cleverly. 

 He is a beautifully bred horse by Val d'Or (imp.) out of 

 Ondulee (imp.) by St Simon out of Ornis by Bend Or 

 out of Shotover. Dorancia is also by Val d'Or, her dam 

 being Petulancia. The two-year-old races were about the 

 earliest of the season, and here Sr Unzue supplied the 

 two favourites, but it was the public who insisted on 

 elevating them to that position. One of them, Gandou- 

 mint, an iron-grey colt by Pippermint, is full of promise, 

 and he ran very fast, but is probably backward. I 

 should think he will prove the best we saw. The 

 seventh race was won by a very good-looking son of 

 Your Majesty and Haya (dam of Amsterdam). His 

 name is Utrecht, and he never gave his field a chance. 

 There was conclusive proof during the afternoon that 

 an owner whose horses are known to be always out to 

 win has no chance whatever to back his own on any 

 reasonable terms. Sr Unzue's stable (Stud Indecis) is 

 in this position, and thus we saw his filly, Tajada, start 

 with 19,627 tickets on her, nothing else touching five 

 figures, while the winner totalled 9273 (second favourite), 

 the second 6217, and the third 2853. Again, in the 

 second two-year-old race, his colt, Gandoumint, had 

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