Midget McLachlan’s Life Story - No. 8
Billy McLachlan will ever remember his association with the great New Zealand mare Desert Gold, bred, owned and raced by Mr TH Lowry, as fine a sportsman as ever lived. In all, McLachlan rode Desert Gold in six of her races here. He won the St George Stakes and the Governor’s Plate on her in Victoria, and the Autumn Stakes and the All-Aged Stakes at Randwick.
He was second on her to Wedge in the Futurity, and second to Wallace Isinglass in the King’s Plate. She went down to Wedge in the Futurity, but McLachlan told Mr Lowry afterwards that if the race were re-run she would win. She drew a bad position at the start and was never favorably positioned. Still, Wedge was one of the fastest horses ever raced in Australia, and to him goes the credit of licking a real champion. We'll leave it at that. Desert Gold was raced here by Mr Lowry for
