MR KEMBALL’S HORSES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22197, 26 February 1934, Page 13

MR KEMBALL’S HORSES

TRANSFER TO MELBOURNE. An announcement that Mr W. R. Kemball, of Wellington, who has more horses in training than any other New Zealand owner, has decided to transfer ■ the whole of hi s team to Victoria and to race on a large scale in Australia* was made in Melbourne recently. ~ According to the Melbourne Star, M. Kemball, who is staying in Victoria at present, has already made arrangements to ■ ship more than 20 of his horses i ronx the Dominion to Victoria on March 10. He had intended sending them this month, but could not arrange for suitable shipping space. This will be the first consignment, and will be followed by further batches of his thoroughbreds. Mr Kemball’s trainer, George Jones, who has now been in Australia for several years, and already has a number of his horses in work, will take 14 or 15 of the horses that are going across, and the remaining seven or eight will go. to another trainer—probably one who will be sent from New Zealand. Although nothing definite ha s been decided, .it is likely that the other trainer will be W. Hawthorne, who has been associated with Mr Kimball ever since be began racing The transfer of Mr Kemball s stables to Melbourne will mean a lot to Victorian racing. As be does not bother about the betting side of racing, the presence of his horses in Melbourne fields will make for better racing. Mr Kemball, in addition to racing on a very large scale, is also a breeder in a very big way. Whether he /will contiiiUG to keen his stud going in the Dominion or will transfer bis breeding stock to Australia is not certain. The chances are, however, that he will continue to breed his racehorses at his stud in New Zealand, but will race them in Australia. His loss will be a severe blow to New Zealand racing, but it will be Victoria s gain, and racing men in Australia will welcome Mr Kemball, and will hope that big new. venture meets with the success that it deserves. . Greenhorn, one of Mr Kemball g Melbourne team, won the Wyndham Handicap, one mile and three furlongs, at Williamstown on February 10. As a result of his win he hac advanced in favour for the Australian Cup, in which he is regarded as nicely treated with 7.5. Greenhorn was seventh in the Melbourne Cup with the game weight, and other good per. formances to his credit are seconds in the Hotham Handicap and the V.R.C. Handicap, and third in the Williamstown Cup, so that he has good credentials. Greenhorn is a bay gelding by Cape Horn from the Boniform mare Bonrina, and was bred by Mr Keniball.