ROYSTON CHANGES HANDS
Houston will carry new colours when lie contests the Hack Cup at Bulls" tomorrow. Formerly he was raced by his breeder,' Air. A. F: Symes, of Hastings, but early this month Mr.' Symes sold him to Mr. L. H. Collin'son,-who has since leased him to his-trainer, P..Holman, now of Feilding.
TW'-liis' breeder Royston proved not much.of-ii succdss. . On occasions ho gave promise, but his only money-earning effort was in winning the Ladies' Bracelet at the Mannwatii Hunt-Meeting.last'June, when lie was trained by Mrs. A. McDonald. He was tried once or twice over hurdles, and that is probably the department in" which his future lies. He is a five-year-old gelding by Tribulation from the Wormwood mare Nukerakau, so that he is an older half-brother to Bodyline and Pukehou.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 49, 27 February 1934, Page 6
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