BILL TINDALL’S LUCK

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 74, 28 March 1936, Page 9

BILL TINDALL’S LUCK

SAVED £I7OO AT YEARLING SALES. BID OP £1750 BEATS HIM. “Bill” Tindall, who recently .was granted a discharge in bankruptcy, in Melbourne, liabilities being £IO,OOO and assets £265, used to have one oi lne largest strings of racehorses in training in New South Wales. He was a liberal buyer, and if he fancied a yearling and some one else also fancied it, there was sure to be a spirited contest for possession. , , ,■ ~, On one occasion Tindall had all the sensations of being the victim of cruel fortune (aided and abetted by a shortage of hard cash), but the result left him feeling quite happy about the business. 1000 Before the yearling sales ot IJ-J, Tindall took a* great fancy to an attractive bay or brown colt by Caravel from Andesine by The Welkin. He s mine,” said Bill to a friend. Day before the sale in Sydney Tindall went to the bank and collected as much mone) as that cautious institution would permit. The total was £I7OO. Fortunately, as it turned out, there was another racing man, who was rather in the boom at the moment, and he also took a fancy to the Caravel colt. These two soon had the bidding to themselves. As it mounted Bill began to get anxious, for he knew he was up against a rival with “money to burn.” As a last, despairing effort, W.T. called “£1700.” In a moment came the response, “£l7so”—and the vanquished trainer-owner muttered something and retired from the contest. Bill, however, had the last laugh. •Carat won a race at Randwick as a two-year-old, but his owner had no money on him. Prom that time on he proved a dud and Tindall used to chuckle over the lucky way in which he had saved £I7OO.