“OUT IN THE COLD”

Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1929, Page 5

“OUT IN THE COLD”

LITTLE NEW ZEALAND. and England once more share in the honour of producing an American champion of the turf.” Thus writes a Sydney sporting scribe. The subject of the..above testimonial ic Boojum, the acknowledged champion twb-year-pld of America, winner of the Saratoga Hopeful Stakes; furlongs, run in Imin itsec.,. a record ; for the .States. . Boojum is owned by that wonderfully successful owner-breeder, Mr. H. P. Whitney, and is by John P. Grier, from Elf, by Chicle, the last-named being a son of - the .Carbine horse Spearmint. Carbine's association with the pedigree of Boojum gives our Sydney contemporary an opportunity to once more propound the fallacy that Carbine was an Australian. Carbine was not an Australian. He was New Zealand bred and born. England, through Carbine’s son, Spearmint, may share in Boojum’s honours, but Australia never! New Zealand. shares that with the Mother Country. Why Australians persist in claiming Carbine as their own, when they know, or ought to know, that the slashing son of Musket and Mersey first saw the light and first raced in New Zealand, is beyond one’s comprehension, and, apart from inaccuracy, it is just as well to again point out that “Little New Zealand” has at least equal claims as England to the production of Boojam, or any other of the champions of the Mueket line, and that Australia's claims to a share are “pure moonshine.”