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Waxwings' - 1940 South Australian Derby Winner: Winner's sashes…
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Melbourne
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12-Nov-2020
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Waxwings' - 1940 South Australian Derby Winner: Winner's sashes comprising 1939 Oaklands Plate (Port Adelaide) with tartan sash, 1940 Port Adelaide Guineas with violet sash, 1940 South Australian Derby (Morphettville) turquoise sash with embroidered floral horseshoe motif, all have metallic braided tassels and sterling silver buckles, the latter stamped 'C.W. Ottaway & Co., Adelaide'. (total buckle weight 950gr). Waxwings' out of 'Curialis' and 'All Chatter' was 4-7on favourite for the 1940 SA Derby. She won comfortably by 5 lengths from The Falcon and Rainbar, ridden by Rc 'Mick' Medhurst, trained I. Reid. [The horse's owner was Lady Muriel Barclay-Harvey wife of Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey, Governor of South Australia (1939-44). Lady Muriel founded the Lady Muriel Nurses' Club for servicewomen and visited every Red Cross branch in the state during World War II. She also opened the Pioneer Women's Memorial Gardens in Adelaide and launched the corvette HMAS Whyalla in May 1941. Sir Malcolm also worked tirelessly for the war effort during his tenure as Governor. He was a railways enthusiast installing an outdoors model railway at the vice-regal residence in the Adelaide Hills. They returned to their Scottish Estate in 1944. He was appointed Grand Master Mason of the Freemasons Scottish Constitution (1949-53), and in 1964 became Lord Prior for the Order of St John.]
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