‘WON'T-RETIRE’ HORSE
DEATH OF FERRANS LONDON, Nov. 20. Ferrans, popular 17-year-old steeplechaser, who was placed more! than a hundred times in liis long career, is dead. Two years ago liis owner, Mr. Archer Smith-Bingham, decided to retire him. Ferrans was so miserable in retirement that he was returned to George Beeby’s stable, where he perked up immediately. Little encouragement has been given to selling ’chasers in newly formed N.H. programmes, and rather than turn Ferrans to mope in a paddock his owner and trainer thought it kinder to have the old horse painlessly destroyed.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20135, 3 January 1940, Page 3
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