NEW ROLE TO LIKING

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1932, Page 10

NEW ROLE TO LIKING

REFRESHER'S' <-. TWO < GUPS

■Refresher's: Waikato,:Ciip\ l;ace':,coilfii;med the: .qualities, of .staying., ability and gaine ; ness., : that ;haye. righfly. .been- ascribed to --him: ,:This' season,-- foi;.'. a new. "owner, lip; has.; been ;d6hig'.;partic^arly/->vdii,-: -arid his 'whole, riecprd:'of 'racing''is"irit'erfestiug to glance over,' says "''Suri'driidgt" ;:"

He is .novy-.a'.six-yeaivbM,' and- made his first appearance/ at two : years/ 'when he had .one-, race, unplaced.*:'. He was produced nine times at three years', winning five rages and .being- once second. His first success was in. the Sylvia Park-Handi-cap at the'Pakuranga Hunt Meeting, and he followed, it upby winning the Hobson Handicap at the A.R.C. Spring Meeting, another good race at Takapuna, and the sprint double at Whangarei. ! •His four-year-old season was less success-1 ful, if more strenuous. He' was stepped put 18 times for three wins, six seconds,' and two thirds. His wins were the Flying Handicap at the A.R.C. Spring Meeting, when he beat such Horses asi Prince Val,.Nancy, -Lee,.- Ofairi/- Silvermine,-.;Great': Charter,;.and Mervette, 'and the. big,sprintl faces' at ilie Te-RapaV:Autumn;,MeetinfJ In -.several bther. eventsv. he -.failed .narrow-1 ly-inthe Jbest company. '' ■•■'"■< ..- ■■'■' Although he :: wasVplaced -five; times Jast '■ season in niixe' stavts,;":includ jrig.'a tliird ■ in the A.R.C Railway' Handicap, he''did not collect .a winning-stake, but he'fegan the current term/well : v by. winning', the Stratford Handicap at the 'TaiiinakifHunt' Meeting.. After a" third: over • six ■ furlongs at Martoh arid Wanganui,' he successfully weht ten'-..-furlongs, in the Waverlei'-Waito-tara.Cup.'andat hisnext start he collected his secpndmile and1 a. quarter cheaue' m the .Waikato> Cirp.r.: ' " ■■;'.. .. ■' ' His record to dite'is:— •-/- :•■ . Won . „ - Wins. Placings. £ At 2 years _ _ At 3 years a 1 1073 At 4 years .... 3 8 1105 At a years j...- — s . 2 30 At 6 years .... .3 3 335 Totals 11 1^ £^7^

.Refresherwas bred.iu-1926 by Mrs AI A. Perry, and he is by Tea Tray from the ..Demosthenes.: mare Hula- Girl Who had- thrown,Tea,Bell.and^Mori to the same sire. He became, the property as' a yearling of i air.^G;:C4Glenn, of Hawera/who paid 300 guineas for'him.at the sales, and he was .trained by. J., T.l Jainieson until the entl,of-Jast--season, wjien lie was bought y S lr-T?-, CSlvert' and; went into the stable ot X: Barlow at A Tew Plymouth