AN AUSTRALIAN OPINION

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 132, 1 December 1938, Page 13

AN AUSTRALIAN OPINION

"Mx. TL. Barnes imust frequently congratulate himself ifiat no one was plucky ft© give him a profit on iljqgan IDteriDy ibeJore that game and brilliant pacer gtattjed on his winning career," says the "Australian. Trotting Record." "The son of Globe Derby and the former Neiw Zealander Belle Logan was purchasied by Mr. W. Balloch from Mr. E. .Tafelow as a weanling. This was on the Advice of the late W. J. Tomkinson, Virhose words were to the effect that ifl Belle Logan ever threw a colt to IG-lotoe Derby the opportunity to buy «h<iiild be taken. Mr. Balloch 'took ihe .adsvice, but allowed what ■ultimately proved the greatest horse ihe ever 'owheai to leave his possession :as a result <of his determina■tian to sever his association with, the game.

"Howsver, Mr. Betrays was evidently Dame JFortune's iEavourite, ■as Logan Derby ifaas prcwcafl <a veritable gold mine. 'SChe stallimi's d^eds have been recorded so <often that there is little need is arepestt-[them, excepting to say that he ihas never left mome, and that very -frequently. "wdxhout earning money. His fl&csi -imp Ift> New Zealand was rsKtfle this .saason* : and he has earned -about <£15Q0 in iis seven starts. He is a wonderful traveller, and all distances are alike toi him. To go to New .Zealand and niix it with the best is sproof -of his 'fiine racing temperameiifc and speed, purchased for 60 guineas as a rising' three-year-old in 198S, Logan Derby ! has quickly paved ithe way to prosperity for the ißarnes family." ■