PEER TO SELL HIS HORSES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 8 October 1936, Page 16

PEER TO SELL HIS HORSES

CUT TO MEET TAXATION £10,329 WON'IN YEAR LONDON, Aug. 26. Lord Howard de Walden has decided to curtail his racing interests. ITe issued the following statement yesterday:— "Owing to the heavy burden of taxation, Lord Howard de Walden finds that it is necessary to make drastic cuts in his expenditure, and is, therefore, reducing his racing and stud commitments.

"He is making arrangements to sell all his horses in training, most of his mares, yearlings and foals. lie will probably reserve some of his yearling fillies for future stud purposes."

Lord Howard de Walden has never been an enthusiastic owner, and his appearance at race-meetings have been infrequent. He is one of the few who have resigned from the Jockey Club. This lie did in 1f)24 after 10 years' membership.

The best horse he ever owned was Zinfitudel, trained for him by the late Major Charles Beady, who, after a desperately unlucky defeat by Throwaway in the Ascot Gold Cup in 1904, won the trophy in the following season.

Zinfandcl also won the Manchester Cup, the Gold Vase, the Gordon Stakes, at Goodwood, and the Brighton Cup, and as a five-year-old beat Sceptre and Rock Sand in the Coronation Cup at Epsom. Later he won the Alexandra Plate at Ascot and the Jockey Club Cup. Curiously enough, Zinl'audel never made a name for himself at the stud.

Since the days of Zinfandcl, Curgill won for Lord Howard do Walden the Manchester Cup. lie had his best season in 1933, the year Blazonry was a two-year-old and a winner of the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster. He won £10,329 in stakes in 17 races.

His best, animal in recent years, during which Dawson Watigh has trained his horses at Newmarket, was Rose en Soleil.

Lord Howard de Walden'a horses include Quillion, Gorget, Drypoint, Antonino, Prawn, Renedos, Doigtc, Sorismondc, Tar'no and Blunderbuss.