TRAINER RETIRING

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30560, 1 October 1964, Page 5

TRAINER RETIRING

C.R. Berkett To Sell C. R. Berkett, who has trained with success at Templeton since 1946, will shortly retire from public training. Berkett will next week take over a hotel at Rolleston, but will continue to prepare his team until after the New Zealand Cup meeting next month. Berkett will sell all the horses he owns in about six weeks. After his team has been dispersed he will retain one or two horses, including a promising two-year-old colt by U. Scott from Lady Gamble, which he owns in partnership with Mr A. E. Howatt, of Nelson. Headed List Berkett has enjoyed considerable success both as a trainer and a driver. He headed the list of trainers in. 1947-48 and again in 1948-49 when he trained the winners of 47 races. He was the leading driver in New Zealand in 194748. In more recent years he has done little of the driving of his team. Berkett has driven two New Zealand Cup winners— Highland Fling in 1947 and Loyal Nurse in 1949. He trained Loyal Nurse for her win. Probably the greatest pacer he trained was Young Charles, a brilliant but unsound son of U. Scott. More recently he won races, including the Dunedin Cup, with Great Credit, which he took to New York in the autumn. Many Winners Berkett won many races with trotters, including the New Zealand Trotting Stakes with King’s Brigade and Battle Cry, and the Rowe Memorial Cup with Bellisima. Among his other classic wins were the Great Northern Stakes and the Oamaru Juvenile Stakes with Young Charles, and the New Zealand Golden Slipper Stakes with Consistent. SPOTSWOOD TROTTING CLUB Saturday, October 17, 1964 NOMINATIONS for the Equallsator Meeting to be held at Spotswood on Saturday, October 17, 1964, close at 4 p.m. on Monday, October 5, 1964, with: BYRNE and CO., 661 Colombo street, CHRISTCHURCH. Telegrams “Byroc.” Telephone 65-029.