"RETIRED" RACEHORSES
The question of what becomes of racehorses when they are retired from the Turf has been answered in part tar Cardigan" in the Melbourne "rferald." Most mares go to the stud, but many Sngs find employment as hacks on ftations, mounts for mounted police, troopers, and clerks of the course.. Revenue, a Melbourne Cup winner, wasused'as a hack by a GovernorGeneral of Australia, and he must have been about twenty years old when he went to the Great War as a charger. The same service was done by Taissez Allez. who became General Sir Brudenell White's charger.. At least one Australian Steeples winner, Minterne, has been identified in the shafts of a baker's cart and such wellremembered recent performers as Shadow King, Byron, and Dark Chief are troopers* horses.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 50, 27 August 1937, Page 13
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131"RETIRED" RACEHORSES Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 50, 27 August 1937, Page 13
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