WINDSOR LAD’S RECOVERY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 144, 21 June 1939, Page 5

WINDSOR LAD’S RECOVERY

HIS FIRST WINNER The stallion Windsor Lad who was operated upon recently for a tumour near the brain and for whom little hope was at first held is now reported to have made a remarkable recovery. The son of Blandford won the Derby for the Maharaja of Ra.jpipla in 1934 and shortly after his success was purchased from the Indian potentate by

Mr. Martin Benson lor £50,000. For Mr. Benson Windsor Lad won the St. Leger, and later was retired to his owner’s Beech House Stud at Newmarket at a fee of 400 guineas. According Io the latest Sporting Life, Windsor Lad has made good progress after his operation, which was performed by Profesor O’Connor on Sunday, April 30, and four days later had a spell in the paddock behind Professor Bailey Reynolds’ surgery at Newmarket. He grazed quietly and looked extremely well. At the annual conference of the

Irish Veterinary Medical Association Professor O’Connor expressed the opinion that Windsor Lad had good prospects of making a complete recovery. Recently Windsor Lad was represented by his first runner, a colt named Sovereignty, who defeated a field of smart youngsters in the Grove Park Plate at Warwick. Sovereignty is owned by Mrs. R. C. Evans, who purchased lam for 500 guineas as a yearling.