ALETHEA CHANGES STABLES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 84, 11 April 1946, Page 6

ALETHEA CHANGES STABLES

WILL RACE AT WANGANUI AND FOLDING

The presence of Alethea’s nai Earle Stakes on the concluding daj autumn meeting does not mean- th the decision to retire the Mr. Stani conclude her racing career with h Mr. Dunean Lourie, owner of Alethea, stated at Wanganui on Saturday last that the mare would go to the stud next season, but lie had not yet made a definite decision as to what stallion she would be mated with. He should not find any difficulty in securing a service for a mare of Alethea’s class.

Alethea has been set to carry 8.9 In the Earle Stakes and she has 8.8 in the Edmund Goodbehere Memorial at Feilding ,on Easter Saturday. Both events are run over a mile and aquarter and Alethea will be meeting Rink and Battle Dance at Feilding on better terms than is the case in the Earle Stakes. Alethea also claims engagements in the Feilding Cup on Easter Monday and the Easter Handicap on the following day. All going

ime among the acceptors for the y of the Wanganui Jockey Club’s lat. any change has been made in dfast mare to the stud. She will ler autumn engagements.

well with tier in the meantime, she may be expected to take part in at least two of her Easter engagements. After running fourth in the AWapuni Gold Cup, Alethea was brought up to Marton, where she is now quartered in K. R. Webster’s establishment for the remainder of her racing career. Since being placed in C. J. Thompson’s Awapuni stable as a youngster she has taken part in 62 races, ot which she has won fifteen, with £5365 in stakes to her credit.

With Langue d’Or, Saludos, Alethea and Arco in his stable at the same time, alt in different ownerships, Thomson must have found it at times embarrassing to place his charges to the satisfaction of himself and their owners. At times Alethea, Saludos and Langue d’Or were engaged in such important events as the Summer and Autumn Handicaps at Trentham, and now that Arco has developed into a middle-distance performer of the best class, Thomson must feel relieved at the decision to retire Alethea.