HORSES DELAYED
- ■ .-f FLOAT BREAKS DOWN . 3 AT ASHBURTON 1 * WINNER AT TIMARU NEARLY ;f| ■ SCRATCHED v \"|| While some members of the crowd at the Timaru Trotting Club’s meeting % on Saturday were cheering Supertax for his good win in the Washdyke Handicap, and later a smaller section || showed their glee at his dividend (one ||| of the best of the day), only a’vefy;-|jl few realised that Supertax very nearly did not race that day. r u With five' other horses—Cantata," Llewellyn’s Pet, Effle Parrish, Native Son and Amontilado—Supertax was t being taken from his training ground • * iat New Brighton to the course in a > motor-float , When near Ashburton the float' broke down, and there sedmed a chance that those of the L& horses which? were-' nb|« r quite ready Ic| would not have a chance to put in | that extra last bit of training which | can be had from, a race and a race ‘I only. r. ,f Application to the Railway Depart- '•s ment gave a happy solution to the difficulty. Five of the horses were ac- ; commodated on the horse train in the v-a ordinary loose-boxes, and another . s truck was added to the passenger train, thus allowing all six of rthe Jsi; horses to get to Timaru in time for - their engagements. v
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21733, 16 March 1936, Page 12
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