QUICK TIME RETIRED

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30044, 31 January 1963, Page 4

QUICK TIME RETIRED

Cost 20gns And Won £4710 ■ *• Quick Time,, one of New Zealand’s remarkable veterans, baa finished racing. He will return today to toe Mount Somers farm of hto owner, Mr B. F. Mears, who paid 30gns for him at auction and who saw him return £O7lO in stakes. Quick Time is 11, but managed to win hto second Claude Stock Memorial at Orari ta the spring. Last month he ran fourth in the Dunedin Jockey Club Handicap and the Dunedin Cup, but he has been off colour for the last fortnight or so, and would have been unable to do himself justice in the Tinwald Handicap at Ashburton on Saturday. Mr Mears was looktag for a likely type of jumper when he paid 20gna for Quick Time at the November bloodstock sate ta Christchurch ta lftK. He joined B. W. Gray's stable at Ashburton vrifc a jumping carter ta vteih but Mrs Me«r« persuaded bar husband to give flat racing a try first The results were very - ; jhi'j’rftlit! • ’’Saute Korhlfi'XS races. He was Wd to Quite Able and Great Sensation in toe 1900 Dunedin Cup, wiu: runner-up to Great Smsation ta 1961, and wu fouz’h, again behind. Mr D. W Brown’s champion, ta the W! race. Quick Time did not win a major race on his home track at. Rkcarton, where he wu trained by J. L. Burr, but he m into minor places ta two New Zealand Cups; two Metropolitans, and s Great Autumn Handicap.