SLEEPY FOX AIDS FUNDS OF CHURCH
"If Sleepy Fox wins tomorrow your fund will beuefit, " the Ho,n. E. R. Davis, part owner of Sleepy Fox, tohi a personal friend, Canon C. W. Chand ler, whb is visiting New, Plymouth to furtliev the -coniihg-of-age ; appeal for the Dioeese ?of Waikato. '"But," he added stipulatiou, ' 1 you must come aud see him running for such a worthy cause. ' ' "I am not sure that a parson ever should go to the rac.es, niuch less during the season of Lent, "-said Canon Cliandler; .still, beyvent and saw Sleep.v Fox win, and th$ churqh benefj.ted.substantiallv. ; . After the race. the jockey, .T. Winder, told Canon Chandler that Sleepy Fox had never been either spurred or whipped. "He's.as ke.en to.win as his owner." he said. — (Taranaki Dailv News.) -
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 March 1947, Page 6
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