MULTIFORM TO GO TO ENGLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 2356, 20 April 1899, Page 36

MULTIFORM TO GO TO ENGLAND.

Mr Stead states that, consequent on the receipt of recent cables, there is a probability that he will ship Multiform to England by tho Ruahine on May 11. This means presumably that the champion has been sold. Mr Stead is hardly likely to send the horse Home on sqcc. There is too much money in Multiform to permit of such a risk. If sold, I may hazard the guess that the price is not much under £5000. The exact position of the matter will probably leak out later on. Meanwhile, it is just as well that England should get the horse, and New Zealand should takfe the money. Multiform is lost here as a racer. The few events that he can win easily are not worth his while to stop for. He hae a capital record. When he began racing, in thq, Welcome Stakes, many thought he would grow upi not the equal of Sir Lancelot, the colt with whom he dead-heated. Sir Lancelot has passed out of sight and almost out of memory. Multiform, on the other hand, has won 14 races since then, and run second in other three to his stable, companion, jGold Medallist. It is a great record, covering three years.. Put into figures,. it reads thus : — Started 19 times,, won 16, Including two dead heats — one with Sir Lancelot, and the other with St. Clements ; and three limes second, the total value of the stakes won being £6391. In England the horse would have won twice as much money, if he had won half as many races.