CONGRUENT IN ACCIDENT

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29367, 21 November 1960, Page 4

CONGRUENT IN ACCIDENT

Race Career Ended

“The Press” Special Service DARGAVILLE, November 20. Congruent, one of Southland’s most promising pacers, and a winner at his last two starts at Oamaru last month, is unlikely to race again.

It will be a miracle if he recovers sufficiently to race again,” his young owner, Mr F. A. Franks, of Gore, said on Saturday. Congruent was being driven home from the Gore tracks last week by Franks, who was leading two others. Congruent took fright at a crawler tractor, broke loose and crashed into a lorry. He took the weight of the crash on his shoulder, which was badly swollen, and he has been swinging the leg since. He bled for some hours after the incident, and according to his owner “is still in a bad way.” Congruent was regarded as one of the most promising young pacers in the country, being a four-year-old stallion by Hal Tryax from Rust Maid, which left 13 individual winners, including a New Zealand Cup winner. Chamfer.

His full sister. Little Toff, which gained very moderate distinction as a race mare, has already made a good start at the stud by producing Student Prince, winner of the New Zealand Derby at Addington on Saturday. Chamfer is now a successful sire in Tasmania.