FRED DAVIS.

NZ Truth, Issue 943, 22 December 1923, Page 10

FRED DAVIS.

When you he&f motioned the names of Bobrikoff and Deaert Qdld, whom do you think or? Fred Davis, ot course, the painstaking and capable mentor who prepared the pair of champions. Born m Whangarel m 1875, Davis was, ln his day. ono of tho best of our Jockeys. If you question this statement look up his record. And It would have been a deal better if he had been able to go to the scale - a little lighter than he did. He numbered among his patrons m his riding days Messrs E. J. Watt, J. D. Ormond, and T. H. Lowry, and many were the richly-endowed races he won for them. Giving riding best, he took up training and was appointed private trainer to T. H. Lowry. The amount of stake money he has collected for the Hawkes Bay owner has paid for the pradß' tucker many times over. One mare alone brought ln over twenty thousand of tho best. Davy is still keeping up the .good work and has a nice and select string at Glenora Park, numbered among which are Highland, Queen March, Best Boy and Son o* Mine. The best horse he has ever had? Well, the writer Is not too sure that Fred would not say BobrikoCf.