VALUABLE REJECT

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 275, 16 August 1932, Page 10

VALUABLE REJECT

Horse for Boiling Down NEW OWNER REWARDED Dominion Special Service. Christchurch, August 15. Saved at the last moment from an ignominious fate at a boiling-down works, the cast-off racehorse. Nine of ■Spades has handsomely rewarded the man who took pity on him. Nine of Spades is an aged Elysian gelding. He was formerly trained at Hastings by V. H. Colello, and since going to the South Island he had shown only moderate form. His connections a few weeks ago decided to get rid of him, and he was forwarded to a boiling-down works in' South,Canterbury. When he came in with the Shadow of the humane-killer over him, an employee of the establishment took pity on him, and on making inquiries learned his identity. On paying the freight to the works, amounting to £l/13/-, he became possessed of the discredited gelding. Nine of Spades was for some time ridden about the roads as a hack, and his new owner entered him for a jumpers’ flat race at the. South Canterbury meeting, and secured second prize as well as a substantial dividend. He then brought the gelding on to Riccarton for the National meeting, where in two starts he won the Spreydon Hurdles from his only opponent, Dainty Ways, and on Saturday ran third in the Styx Hurdles. His present owner’s kindness in saving the horse from a dishonoured fate has resulted in a Cheque for something approaching £l5O in three starts, and he still has the horse.