A COUP THAT MISSED

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 105, 30 October 1935, Page 8

A COUP THAT MISSED

It is not often that racegoers are offered such a pointer as they were when Oalshot was accepted for and paraded in the Spring Trial Stakes on Monday. ■ The win did not come off, but if Calshot had not been so unlucky as .to be. squeezed right back at the start he would probably have beaten even'Xowenberg, for he went a great race afterwards. The unexpected trip has been costly in more ways :than dne for his connections, as it: has exposed what they must think of him; Calshot's only previous racing was two starts last season, and he created a good: impression when he won the second division of* the Maiden Handicap at.Te Rapa last May in his final appearance prior to Monday. He was accepted to run at the Waikato Hunt on Monday, but instead he was sent down from Hamilton to Trentham at the weekend, and that trip would havecost over £15 in fares alone! No wonder the wise-heads were all with him. This previously little-known horse is a four-year-old bay gelding by Acre from the Limond—Noreen mare Noretta, and he is owned by his breeder, Mr. H. D. Matthews, of Hamilton, who is also training him. - Mr. Matthews has also owned Gay Poto, Twenty Carat, and Rippling Waters (A.R.C. Welcome Stakes winner), the lastnamed in partnership with Mr. C. Matthews, who raced Gay Seton, but -is mainry interested in-breeding. Noreen. the grandam, was an Australian-bred mare imported by Mr. G. F. Moore, and among her other progeny were Cushla, Gaillard (C.J.C. Champagne Stakes, etc.), and Dermod. The family, traces back to the great Steppe, dam of Stepniak, etc.