SILENCE DEAD
Winner Of £12,500 In Stakes "The Press" Special Service DUNEDIN, April 26. Silence, winner of £12,500, died this week. He had been turned out for a spell at Taieri, and was found dead in his paddock. An eight-year-old gelding by Timanova from the Siegfried mare All Quiet, Silence was bought by Mr J. P. O’Brien, of Dunedin, at the Trentham yearling sales, for 550gns. A half-brother to the New Zealand St. Leger winner, Western Front, Silence won 13 races, including the Wellington Racing Club’s Wellesley Stakes, the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Welcome Stakes, Churchill Stakes, and Challenge Stakes, and the Southland Guineas. He campaigned m Australia for 12 months as a member of Maurice McCarten’s stable at Randwick. He collected £B7O in place money and was narrowly beaten twice in big handicaps. Apart from the time he was in Australia he was trained throughout his career by W. E. Hancock, at /Wingatui.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 12
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