BRILLIANT CAREER

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 63, 12 September 1938, Page 11

BRILLIANT CAREER

■ nomenal success, heading the -winning " list with no fewer than 123 victories. ■. This is a New Zealand record, and i Voitre also had the distinction of heading the winning jockeys' list while \ still an apprentice. Deciding to transfer his activities to Australia, he quickly impressed the ' best judges there with his skill and > ability, and rose to the first flight. Able ; to ride at a handy weight, he became ' one of Victoria's most successful and } popular horsemen. Voitre had more than his share of 1 bad luck with the good/ A few years > ago, when riding at New Plymouth, ; he had both arms broken, but after a long spell he came back to the saddle I and rode as well and gamely as ever. , In Melbourne it is not so long ago that he had a leg broken in a race ' accident and he was again laid aside : for a long period. He came back to ; the saddle only last summer and rode : winners again immediately on resum- . ing, finishing up the season about ; sixth.in. the list. In New Zealand Voitre's -wins included, the Auckland Cup twice, on Admiral Drake and Gold Trail; the Gi'eat Northern Foal Stakes twice, on Princess Doreen and Legatee; the Royal Stakes twice, on Ammon Ra and Tea Trader; the Great Northern i Guineas oh Golden Wings; the A.R.C. , Welcome Stakes twice, on Royal Ruler and Princess Doreen; Avondale Stakes • twice, on Princess Doreen and Whenua- , kura; C.J.C. Jockey Club Handicap on Arrow Lad; Members' Handicap on ' Hurlingham: Egmont Cup on Arikira; : Manawatu Sires' Produce Stakes on " Golden Hair; Napier Cup on Chrysology; Nelson Cup on Rabbi'; Rangitikei Cup on Chopin and Aston; Taranaki ' Cup on Eminent and Carfex; Waira- , rapa Cup on Piuthair; Wellesley Stakes :on Whenuakura; Wellington Stakes ' on Ammon Ra; and Wellington Cup on • Royal Artist. In Australia he rode the > winners of many big ra^es, including ; the Melbourne Cup on Marabou; the . V.R.C. Derby on Feldspar; the V.R.C. L Oaks on Nalda; the Williamstown Cup r on Garrio; the Newmarket Handicap . on Count Ito; the A.J.C. Epsom Handicap on Synagogue; and the Doncaster • Handicap on Hall Mark. He had of- > fers to ride in India and England. Voitre was born in Palmerston North, where his parents reside.

» NAME KNOWN TO ALL

A brilliant career has been brought to an untimely end by the death of Keith Voitre, one of the finest horsemen ever developed in the Dominion, and his passing will be deeply felt by almost everyone in New Zealand and by all Australian racing people. Like Phar Lap, Keith Voitre had a name that was known not only in racing circles but in every corner and sphere in the Dominion, and even those who will have least to do witlr the sport of racing have always been interested in the ups and downs of this not always too fortunate horseman. Voitre was apprenticed to R. E. Hatch at Awapuni, and when he started riding he quickly became prominent and successful. It was about ten years ago that he had his first ride in a race,