Consolation For H.B. Owner
(Herald Special Service.) The Hastings-owned but Riccartontrained aged gelding Glad Fox was in one of his rare merry moods on the last day of the Canterbury racing carnival’ when he easily accounted for the Port Cooper two-mile hurdle race. On the middle day he dropped out of the contest half a mile from home, finishing an ordinary fourth, but last Saturday, taking over the lead six furlongs from home, he gave nothing else a show.
His owner since winning the N.Z. Cup with Catterick Bridge has not enjoyed the best luck as in the interim he has lost four valuable rising two-year-old colts after they had been emasculated, lost a hurdle race with Glad Fox at Wellington after winning easily (on account of the rider losing his skull cap, which lost weight below his right impost) and on the first day of the Woodville meeting Ballinagh broke down so badly that he might not race again.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22816, 10 December 1948, Page 4 (Supplement)
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