ITS TEAM OF THREE

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 50, 28 August 1934, Page 5

ITS TEAM OF THREE

MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL

The Melbourne City Council, as controller of two of the city's largest park areas, is the embarrassed owner of a. small string of racehorses—two potential winners of the Melbourne Cup and one possible claimant for the Ascot Trotting Thousand.

The two gallopers, Jntermeter.nnd Rose Mniie, are now at Fawkner Park. The trotter, Lazy May, is at Royal Park. If they can be caught, they will be sold under the hammer without reserve. Four years ago Intermetcr and Rose Marie, then fine yearlings, were turned out to grass by their owner on Fawkner Park at 4s a week. The years passed, and the horses grew fat and fihaggy and ate themselves into n debt of about £40. The Curator of Parks and Gardens (Mr. C. Smith) said recently that the fate of the horses had caused considerable speculation among council employees. Lazy May, (he trotter, will probably he fairly" hard Jo catch. She was a legacy to the council from the trustees of Royal Park, and after aboat six years on the (rmss is now too wild to approach. One of the many suggestions made was to put Iho horses on oats, clip them, mid race them under tho council colours —all claret.