CHATELAINE’S DEATH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 2 June 1937, Page 6

CHATELAINE’S DEATH.

GOAT INSEPARABLE FRIEND.

Chatelaine, who won the Oaks and who wa'a trained by Templcman, died recently, states a London writer. Ho proceeds:—l have stayed for many years, before a new season under Jockey Club Itul&s is begun, with Tcmpleman at Larnbourn and seen his horses at work and in their boxes. I remember, as I shall always remember, seeing one evening in a box in Templcman’s lower yard a filly who impressed mo quite exceptionally favourably. Sho was welt grown and full of quality. I stayed looking at her longer than usual, and Templcman, scing that I admired her, told me that in his opinion she was a filly of great possibilities, but that sho would want time before sho would be' at her best and that, further, she might not be easy to train. I saw her ridden by Pox the following morning, and her action seemed as perfect as her looks. 1111 Templcman was right as to the trouble that sho might give in her training. She developed a habit of walking round and round her box. In the morning the straw was ground to dust and the circle round winch sho had walked showed the floor of her box. Many things were tried in the attempt to cure her of this habit, which left her useless for work, but they all failed until one day Templcman bought a hilly goat and shut him in with her at n! q'hc goat did not mind in the least sharing a nice warm box with so pleasant a vourig lady, but he did not intend that, she should spend the night walking round and round and so interfering with Ins sleep. Ho had to walk round as well, for there was nothing else for him to do It is to bo presumed that ho did not walk round head to tail or tail to head. Ho must have walked round facing her, arid instead of reasoning with her it is almost certain that he butted her with his horns in the chest. Ho did no great damago to her, but she gave up walking all night and sho and the goat became inseparable. Where she went he went and sho could now be worked and raced.