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In the beams of a beautiful day	A
Made soft by a breeze from the sea	B
The horses were started away	A
The fleet footed thirty and three	B
Where beauty with shining attire	C
Shed more than a noon on the land	D
Like spirits of thunder and fire	C
They flashed by the fence and the stand	D
And the mouths of pale thousands were hushed	E
When Somnus a marvel of strength	F
Past Bowes like a sudden wind rushed	E
And led the bay colt by a length	F
But a chestnut came galloping through	G
And down where the river tide steals	H
O Brien on brave Waterloo	G
Dashed up to the big horse s heels	H
	-
But Cracknell still kept to the fore	I
And first by the water bend wheeled	J
When a cry from the stand and a roar	I
Ran over green furlongs of field	J
Far out by the back of the course	K
A demon of muscle and pluck	L
Flashed onward the favourite horse	K
With his hoofs flaming clear of the ruck	L
	-
But the wonderful Queenslander came	M
And the thundering leaders were three	B
And a ring and a roll of acclaim	M
Went out like a surge of the sea	B
An Epigram Epigram wins	N
The Colt of the Derby The bay	A
But back where the crescent begins	N
The favourite melted away	A
	-
And the marvel that came from the North	O
With another was heavily thrown	P
And here at the turning flashed forth	O
To the front a surprising unknown	P
By shed and by paddock and gate	Q
The strange the magnificent black	R
Led Darebin a length in the straight	Q
With thirty and one at his back	R
	-
But the Derby colt tired at the rails	S
And Ivory s marvellous bay	A
Passed Burton O Brien and Hales	S
As fleet as a flash of the day	A
But Gough on the African star	T
Came clear in the front of his field	J
Hard followed by Morrison s Czar	T
And the blood unaccustomed to yield	J
	-
Yes first from the turn to the end	U
With a boy on him paler than ghost	V
The horse that had hardly a friend	U
Shot flashing like fire by the post	V
When Graham was riding twas late	Q
For his friends to applaud on the stands	W
The black through the bend and the straight	Q
Had the race of the year in his hands	W
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In a clamour of calls and acclaim	M
He landed the money the horse	K
With the beautiful African name	M
That rang to the back of the course	K
Hurrah for the Hercules race	X
And the terror that came from his stall	Y
With the bright the intelligent face	X
To show the road home to them all	Y

Henry Kendall

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