R. HUMPHRIES MOVING TO RICCARTON
SUCCESSFUL TRAINER FROM INVERCARGILL "The Press" Special Service INVERCARGILL, August 17. The Invercargill trainer. R. E. Humphries, has decided to transfer his headquarters to Riccarton, and members of his team in work at Invercargill will be sent north to join Royal Mail and Wandering Minstrel- * In the few years he has been . established as a trainer at Invercargill, where he served his. apprenticeship with R. E. McLellan, Humphries has met with a good measure of success. Besides Royal Mail, which won three races at Riccarton during the last few weeks, Humphries trained Koxinga, with whom he won four races as a three-year-old before he was fatally injured at the outset of his four-year-old career. Tenner and Marjo have also been good winners from the stable. Royal Mail did not return to Southland after his racing at the Grand National meeting, and he will be the mainstay of the team. Present intentions are to race him at the Dunedin spring meeting with the Wellington spring meeting „to follow. Wandering Minstrel was recently taken over by Humphries. Denza and a four-year-old Airway mare from Joan Dorothy (by Paper Money) will be sent to Riccarton, and later they will be joined by Wllden.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26812, 18 August 1952, Page 4
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