FORTY BOB

NZ Truth, Issue 1220, 18 April 1929, Page 11

FORTY 808

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Christchurch Rep.) If horses could speak it "would be interesting to know what Prince Fer\>uz would have to say about being sold for £2. TN his early career, Prince Ferocuz, 'which was by Demosthenes or Feramorz from Cheloma, a mare that has given the turf Chelone and Nincompoop among others, gave promise of developing into a good performer. He won twenty races, including the Manawatu Cloverlea Nursery, the Dunedin Stewards', the Riccarton Welter and the Waikouaiti and Greymouth Cups. He slipped a bit m the social scale when he was^sent to clean up the Coast, and m time he even failed to hold his own m that territory. But to be sold m his old age for the ,price of a bridle is enough to make any horse curl up and die.