YOUTH'S RACING STUD.
EXTRAORDINARY STORY.
An extraordinary Turf scory is reported from Prague. A 17-year-old pupil at a commercial school organised a stud of 23 racehorses. Ho acted as director and general manager. Besides the school-vouth, the board of directors consisted of a Czecho-Slovak politician, a banker, a barber, a chimneysweep, a joiner, and a laundryman. It is said the enterprising school lad secured considerable sums for the purchase of pedigree horses; but. instead of buying, he received borrowed steeds from Ji'|o-Slavia, and used the money for him* Some of the horses belonging to the establishment got as far as the startingpoint at the races; but they did net get much farther. When the "stud" was sold by auction, it fetched about 4d per pound gross weight.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19133, 26 September 1925, Page 2 (Supplement)
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127YOUTH'S RACING STUD. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19133, 26 September 1925, Page 2 (Supplement)
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