ALADDIN’S LAMP

Press, Volume C, Issue 29623, 20 September 1961, Page 4

ALADDIN’S LAMP

Golfers’ Plans For Horse

(London Correspondent of “The Press")

LONDON, Sept. 11. "Maybe it will be the Melbourne Cup for us one of these days”—was the jocular comment, but perhaps, not entirely jocular, from the Australian golfer, K. D. G. Nagle, in London about the horse Aladdin's Lamp, jointly owned by Nagle and lis fellow Australian golfers. N. G. von Nida and P. W. Thomson. i

‘•McCarten’s got this stayer . . . it’s won six races for us ... ran in the Brisbane Cup but had no show with Tulloch. . . .”

Nagle said that the two-year-ola pacer (Garrison Hanover —Regal Gold) he bought iin Invercargill last year was showing "a ton of pace” in Australia but in what he humorously termed the “wrong direction.” The pacer had shown infinitely greater speed running clockwise than it had on anticlockwise training tracks, but he thought that this could be remedied. One of Nagle’s enduring memories of New Zealand concerns, surprisingly, not golf but the turf. “I remember a day at Woodville,” he said, “when I backed a grey . . . what was it called? . . . Fils d’Or, that’s it . . . man. we made some money off that one.”