Colonel Weir was a great lover of horses and founded the Melbourne Racing Club and introduced into Australia the first batch of trotting horses; incidentally he promoted and built the Melbourne Tramways and later the Madras Railways...... The Globe Thu, 18 Apr 1912
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The Late Colonel Weir: A Lover of Horses
Colonel Weir was a great lover of horses, and founded the Melbourne Racing Club and introduced into Australia the first batch, of trotting horses; incidentally he promoted and built the Melbourne Tramways, and later the Madras Railways...
