NOTED TRAINER DEAD

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27921, 19 March 1956, Page 5

NOTED TRAINER DEAD

MR LEWIS KNAPP, OF

AWAPUNI "The Press" Special Service

t . WELLINGTON, March tn

h,S? r * I ? iapp ’ who was 70, had been in a h °^ a o I rTp C e e ra , t b o e n end °‘ There were few trainers of his time than e Mr° Kn greatl £. success with jumpers r Kna PP- The best he trained in Ct'S* N Was Coppice, which won the Safiona7 O HtwTes d ‘ eS abd the Grand c , Refor f e c .°PPice, Mr Knapp trained the successful jumpers Sten, Red Glare, Gunpowder, Kanui Te Pai. Hanover, Bridgegroom, Forest Glow, Riotous. Callamart Omeo, Pangolinand, and Sir Fanciful. Among the best performers on the flat from Mr Knapp s stable were a dual Waikato Gold Cup winner, Deceptive, Detect, Delude, Ngatoki, Imperial, Sly Robin, Yandra, Duplicity, Flying Tor O, I!r ah l? a ’ Ruatit i. Tail Light, and Estee. Mr Knapp trained for many owners for a long period. The most successful of these owners were Sir Thomas Duncan, Messrs J. Brice, H. McManaway, J. Macdonald, A- T. Gatrell, S. R. Hammond, B. Brewer, W. H. Gaisford, K. McK. Duncan, H. H. Rhind, E. Riddiford, A. Lile, A. H. Marshall. W. McA. Duncan. D. Lupton. S. J Newland, and S. Besley, and Mrs R Porter.