Spartan Prince to be sold
By W. R. CARSTON When the shares in a syndicate are almost evenly balanced and one section cannot agree with the other then vou have a stalemate. This is exactly what has happened in the Tom Tee Syndicate, which up until Boxing Day raced Spartan Prince. So now, with 60 per cent of the shareholders wanting the horse to be trained by “Doody Townley” and two other members of the syndicate, who own 40 per cent of the shares, opposing such a move, it has been decided to put Spartan Prince on the open market.
| Spartan Prince will be put !up for sale at public auction iat Addington Raceway on i Saturday, February 17. The I auction will take place in I the birdcage at 4.30 p.m. before the start of the New ! Brighton Trotting Club’s (meeting. ! The members of the syndicate. have agreed to make a (payment, due on February U 4, for the Inter-Dominion I Championships so that the ■purchaser of the horse will Ibe able to start him in the 'series.
! JJntil the auction Spartan (Prince will.be kept in work [by Jack Smolenski at Weedons.
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