STILL MORE

NZ Truth, Issue 1146, 17 November 1927, Page 13

STILL MORE

He Has Some Team

Together

Buying racehorses becomes . a mania with some and it certainly looks as though Jim Samson has been bitten by the bug. 'THERE is hardly a meeting passes that he does not buy some sort of a horse, and Riccarton last week was no exception: At the sale of yearlings he purchased a Kilbroney — Tango youngster for fifty guineas. Then on the last day of the meeting he thought he would like to have Battlement carrying his colors, so he got m and bought — for four hundred, it is said. Generally, when Samson buys a horse, it manages to win m its first start m his colors, but Battlement failed to keep up the record. For having picked up so many horses that have immediately paid for themselves, Samson has been christened "Lucky Jim," but at times it is open to question if he is as lucky as is thought. How many horses he has he alone knows — and he mixes gallopers with trotters. In galloping alone he Jhas five trainers and that m itself means that he has a big pay-out each week, without allowing for travelling, nomination, acceptance and other fees. Racing is a good sinking fund and possibly Jim Samson is aware ef it.