WITH THE SILKEN JACKET

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 78, 4 May 1929, Page 13

WITH THE SILKEN JACKET

(Compiled by "The Squire.'")

t NOTES ON HORSES, COURSES 'AND OWNERS. DOMINION AND ELSEWHERE

I)r. Ko 11 Ross, ihe ox-golf cbampion, lias been uppointed a deputy steward of ihe Dunedin Jockev Cluh for the Winter mceting, vico j\lr ]M. H. L. Christie, resigned. two good ones. I\Ir R. A. HIcKenzie has running 011 his property at ^Milson, Palmerston North, two rarw-Iooking chcstnut fillies one by Chief Euler — Oleasanta and +he other hy Tea Tray Blaekada. retired. Tho ci-oss-countiy performer, Jovial, has been retircd from training, and is now acting as sclioolmaster to a benoit of yearlings under the tuition of F. J. MeKay in the South Island. jumpers. Percy Wormald has a team of jumpers under his care at Gisborne. They ar'c- Highway, Proud Purse and Royal Heather. All will he well forward when required. Old Garzon has been sold to 5lr T. Carmichael. 'a big price. Rossendale is 17 years old. An Australian wrjter considers that the 9.500 guineas paid for l]im at Easter is not too much. _ His fee is 300 guineas, and atjjb ontside mares a year he would bring a return of £12,000 in three seasons. e'oted figure. In the passing of John Waitore, wealtliy hcokmaker, in Paris, on Feb- j ruary 12 last, the turf lost a xioted |

figure. When a lw\v, AValtcrs soll progranunes at race tracks in tlie United Btales for a diiuc, la>t scason he haiulled wagcrs aggrcgating 50,U00,UU0 dollars. good' recovery". Tho Riccarton irainer, T. Lloyd, is making a good recovery from his accident. His broken collar-bone is doing as well as could be expected. W. Holmes, who hroke a. leg when working for Lloyd a few nionths ago, is liobhling about, but is not ready to do much as yet. a private track. As the frost-bound ground at Epsom in February was an obstacle to training operations. S. Wootton, at his own expense laid down a a five furlongs tan track. He threw it open for the use of other Epsom trainers, a concession that was thoroughly appreciated. * * * getting well. S. Henderson, the well-known Auckland horseman, who was in hospital quarters from March 18 for just on four weeks, as a result of the fall he received at Paeroa when Mangaiti came down with him in the Paeroa Steeplechase, was sufficiently improved to be removed to his home at Ellerslie early last week.