Royal Courage Retired

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30827, 12 August 1965, Page 4

Royal Courage Retired

I “The Press" Special Service WANGANUI. The evergreen steeplechaser, Royal Courage, has been put into retirement at Taumaranui. Prepared by K. J. Cropp at Wanganui for his recent racing, Royal Courage went north when his trainer transferred to Taumarunui last week. The 13-year-old Royal Courage was among the southern North Island’s most dashing steeplechasers throughout his long but broken career. He was among the first four place-getters in 22 of his 37 jumping outings.

reason for this unhappy state of affairs, but it is important to bear in mind that poor environment may be just as much to blame,” Willett writes in the English publication, “Horse and Hound.” Willett continues: “Complaints about unsoundness in British bloodstock have been heard at home and abroad. Many English trainers have been appalled by the proneness of many young horses from studs in England and Ireland to split pasterns and other troubles, resulting from bone deficiencies and other malformations. “Some trainers abroad, notably in France where considerable numbers of Britishbred horses are in training, have made unfavourable comparisons, on the score of unsoundness, between animals coming from English and Irish studs on the one hand and the native stock on the other. “In those cases where unsoundness is not the result of inherited defects, the most