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his Spearmint daughter was out of the Ayrshire mare, Doctrine who had won the Coronation Stakes over a mile in 1902. Document was not a great success but one of her daughters, Beneficiary by Happy Man, a grandson of Desmond, was to be sent to Australia where she produced four stakes winners. Interestingly, all four won only one stakes race each with Codicil winning the 1947 AJC Anniversary Handicap, Gay Romance, the 1937 AJC Gimcrack Stakes, Matinee, the 1934 VATC Debutante Stakes and Trustee, the 1941 Port Adelaide Sires Produce Stakes. Surprisingly it was none of these that was to ensure the long term success of this line

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