MEETING ABANDONED OLD TUTANKHAMEN NEW HORSE FOR WOOD MARE SENT TO AMERICA

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 117, 13 November 1935, Page 8

MEETING ABANDONED

OLD TUTANKHAMEN

NEW HORSE FOR WOOD

MARE SENT TO AMERICA

THE CARTERTON CLUB (By Telegraph—Press Association,)-, . MASTERTON, This Day. :

AN EQUINE FAIRY TALE Tutankhamen, the old' roan race. " horse, is the central figure in the latest ' ayrLtaiean, h^ornirie^cS > Just twelve years ago,. Tutankhamen, a valuable racehorse, was sent frorri his native pastures in New Zealand to i Sydney. After a long and success- ' *} h! ng career«, he broke down. Now < he hauls a cart for a living. San Dior ' is his name these days, and he is popu- '' w&Jf"o^ as "The phar Lap ot th« Waterfront." He is owned by Mr. George Mahoney, of Rozelle (N.S.W). And there's nothing along the water- - o'wnir^dfy" WUh him'" Says hi« • fh^vlS*kilamen> like other racehorses, thought he was entitled to retirement =♦ JS / nd hls racing career, and sighed fona life of ease. Some" months the Rozelle carthorse derby, which he won from 200 yards behind scratch" ' was published and later appeared w n<?ngon publications. The committee ' of th,e Ada Cole Memorial Stables in ■ London, which pays for the board and lodging of all ancient horses in Enaknu, read the story, and decided that , San Dior should live m pastures green for the rest of his days. ■i * c? l lPnJjttee sent a letter by air maii toShs Bri*ish High Commissioner " in Australia (Sir Geoffrey Whiskard) requesting him to interview the owner. I hey would buy a new horse for him and pay for a comfortable home for Tutankhamen. The old horse,"they' said, was to be turned out in a paddock in the country, provided with a comfortable stable, and given threa meals of corn and chaff each day.

W. J. Wood, who has had much success lately with Arctic King and Arc-' tic Star, has had only his own horses Xft to tram, but Mrs. W. A. Fuller, of Wellington, has now handed him a two-year-old colt to prepare for racing. Wood will now require to take out a trainer's licence. Mrs. Fuller's youngster is a brown colt by the imported Irish horse Mullaboden from the Kilboy—Concert mare Phantasy, so he is a well-bred juvenile from a very successful family. He has already arrived at Trentham and will be put into serious work when Wood returns from Christchurch. Wood will be letting Arctic Star up alter his race today, and he will spell the hurdler . and Arctic King till next February.

The brood mare Mission Bell was shipped last week to San Francisco to her owner, Mr. D. J. Davis, who has purchased a number of well-bred mares in New Zealand, including Phaola. Dovelet. Cynthia N., and Lady Greyspear. These mares were bred to American time before leaving the Dominion, and froml them Mr. Davis has two colts and two fillies, who-have been named Maori Lad, Anzac,' Miss Zealand, and Maori Girl. Mission Bell is an eight-year-old mare by Valkyrian from Chime and she is also dvel. to foal to American time, having beea ' mated with Bronze Eagle.