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instead of the 13 furlongs of the
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Nightmarch was second in the James Hazlett Gold Cup. Back in Sydney, Ammon Ra defeated him into second place in both the Rawson Stakes and AJC Chipping Norton Stakes. He won his next two races, the AJC Autumn Stakes and AJC Cumberland Stakes, which he won from
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As a five-year-old he placed third to
Amounis and Phar Lap in the Warwick Stakes and was also third in the Canterbury Stakes. In his next four starts he ran second to Phar Lap each time—in the Chelmsford Stakes, Hill Stakes, AJC Spring Stakes, and
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Nightmarch did not win again, although he was second to Peter Pan by half a length in the Rosehill Hill Stakes next spring. His last stake-earning was third place behind Veilmond in the AJC Spring Stakes.
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Veilmond on each occasion. In the A.J.C. Plate he was unplaced to
Veilmond but finished the racing year by again winning the Awapuni Cup.
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winning chances. Connolly instead became the horse's "campaign manager" and his training was then altered to suit the one mile of the AJC
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Nightmarch stood at stud in New Zealand, where his matings with the Limond mare Praise produced these important winners:
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He was the sire of winners of more than £110,000 in stakes and died in October 1954, aged twenty-nine years old.
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571:Cavanough, Maurice,
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105:New Zealand
634:Categories
511:References
270:Night Raid
268:He was by
231:Nightmarch
162:Major wins
45:Night Raid
24:Nightmarch
385:dead heat
375:in 1954,
369:Cox Plate
259:Cox Plate
251:Australia
52:Grandsire
499:See also
389:Gloaming
243:The Kiwi
154:Earnings
80:Stallion
377:Saintly
359:Summary
328:Dunedin
157:£32,116
138:Trainer
118:Breeder
102:Country
71:Martian
68:Damsire
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146:Record
110:Colour
86:Foaled
55:Radium
237:bred
126:Owner
113:Brown
63:Marsa
530:ISBN
367:and
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97:1954
94:Died
89:1925
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41:Sire
76:Sex
60:Dam
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