MASTER BRIERLY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 13

MASTER BRIERLY

A CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP

(Special from "Early Bird.")

AUCKLAND, November 1. Word has been received from Te Aroha that Master Brierly and the promising two-year-old Kingcraft have been sold to a Hamilton.sportsman and they will in future be trained by A. Winder at Te Rapa, their next appearance being fixed for the local fixture in a little over a fortnight's time. This will be the third different set of racing livery that Master Brierly will have carried, and at eight years he does not seem anywhere near finished, for he showed a dash of stamina in one or two of his outings this spring. Bred, owned, trained, and recently raced by the Te Aroha sportsman, Mr. R. B. Hines, Master Brierly has had a fine record. He reached his peak in the autumn of 1934, when he won the President's Handicap at Ellerslie under 9.7 and on the second day captured the Nolan Handicap, carrying 10.0 and clocking 2min 33sec for the mile and a half. There was another brilliant galloper about at that period in Jonathan, and he and Master Brierly were to meet ■ a week later, in the Foley Memorial Handicap at Avondale. Master Brierly was handicapped at 10.7 and Jonathan at 9.12, the latter winning in the provincial record time of 2min 4 l-ssec. In those races Master Brierly ran In the colours of Mr. M. J. Moodabe, who previously had been associated more with pacers, his last good horse being Jewel Pointer. Mr. Moodabe then decided to send Master Brierly to Australia to race, seeing that he was being asked to carry so much weight in handicaps, and at Randwick, after running fourth in the 1935 Sydney Cup, he won two weight-for-age events. He captured the Cumberland Plate, If miles, beating the odds-on favourite Rogilla, and on the final day he carried all before him in the A.J.C. Plate, 2J miles, beating the Melbourne Cup winner Hall Mark. After that he returned home and he did not grace the winning list again for nearly two years, when he won the Herries Memorial Cup at Te Aroha last February. That was a l wonderful performance, for if ever a i horse was deserving of the phrase, "he I came from the clouds," it was the chestnut.

Apparently satisfied with this stake and trophy. Mr. Moodabe handed Master Brierly back to Mr. Hines, and he must have been surprised when the gelding won again at Avondale a few weeks later. That day he went to the front a long way from home, an unusual thing for him, and stayed there. Now Master Brierly has set off upon another season, and his few efforts this spring have been most promising.

Master Brierly's stable companion, Kingcraft,: is another of Mr Hines's breeding. This two-year-old was brought to Avondale in September to contest the Avondale Stakes, together with Master Brierly's half-sister, Miss Brierly, but neither showed up. These youngsters were'to have raced at Avondale again last moritlv and were actually on the scene, but the death of Mrs. Hines caused them to be taken home again on the eve of the fixture. Kingcraft is a half-brother by King Lv to the successful middle-distance galloper Rona Bay.