FAMILY FAILING
(Special Correspondent N.ZP.A.)
SYDNEY, September 3.
A Melbourne newspaper columnist this week pondered on the trouble that the names of racehorses can bring. There was the case recently of a horse etiled The Field have its name changed because of confusion caused in the TJLB- whenever It ran in the second leg of the double. Now there is the case of a three-year-old tired by the New Zealand horse, We Don’t Know. “The owner, Mr J. E.
Hadden, was taking out
Insurance on hi* three-year-old,” reported the columnist “So he filled out the insurance form. “SIRE: We Don’t Know. "DAM: Secret Scorn. “The form came back from the insurance people very smartly. What did he mean that he didn’t know the name of the sire? “You want to know the name of Mr Hadden’s three-year-old?- It is ... Who Does.”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30536, 3 September 1964, Page 4
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