ANOTHER MYSTERY HORSE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19136, 2 April 1924, Page 8

ANOTHER MYSTERY HORSE.

INVESTIGATION’S IN CHRISTCHURCH. BONA TIDES OF TEMERITY* INQUIRED INTO.

(Feom Our Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH. April 1. It is understood that the police have made good progress with inquiries into the bona tides of Temerity, who, 12 months ago, was taken from Christchurch to Auckland and was heavily supported for the Eden Handicap. Driven by his owner, W. P. Capos, Temerity finished third to Worthy Bingen and Golden Gate. Though nominated for events. Temerity has not been produced. Temerity is returned aa being an aged bay gelding by Peterota from a Kentucky mare. What might be called a tangible result of the investigations in Canterbury was achieved on Saturday evening, when Senioi Detective (now acling-Chief Detective) T. Gibson requested a young man of 18 or 19 to take his horse to tho Police Station. On Sunday the horse was duly delivered, and took its place in the compound where other "mystery” horses have stayed their little while.

A pressman found the polio© and de-» lective* amiable, as they always are, but as silent as the Sphinx regarding the identity of the ‘‘horse in the backyard,” but inquiries elsewhere bore fruit. On Monday afternoon the young man concerned was seated on the horse not far from the I’olioe Station, preparatory to taking the animal homo. The rider was reticent, very much so, and when the reporter suggested that the mount might be Temerity the young man remarked that he was saying nothing. It was a bay horse of over 15 hands, and on its forehead there was a patch devoid of hair as if a chemical had been used to destroy (he hair. How came the young man by this mystery horse? The animal was given to its owner some six months ago, each of three men claiming ownership. Apparently with the horse went the suggestion that it would do well if it had a change of pasture, in (he country for instance. On© day the lad's father, while being shaved, was told that his son had given £ls for the horse. At all events, the horse was ridden about Christchurch and its vicinly for over a month, and was then taken to North Canterbury by the young man. For the past four or five months the horse had been engaged in mustering. That work done, the horse was brought to Christchurch on Saturday, and it is believed that the idea was (o sell it at a horse bazaar, but it is difficult sometimes to sell a horse without a receipt of purchase, and so the young man was asked to take bis horse to the Police Station, and that is as much as is known at present.