MEMORIES OF NIGHTFALL
The death of Ronald J. Farquharson, a well-known. English trainer who expired at the wheel of his car while'motoi-in<*: worn Tilshead to London on. April 30, brings back memories of that fine galloper •Nightfall,'.wlio. won the N.Z. Derby XZ St. Leger, arid Wellington Cup for the late Mr. G ; G:Stead as a three-year-old. For_ many ..years Mr. I'aiquluuson, who was 79 when he died, was a tea planter on a large/scale'in-Ceylon, where he owned a .number of/ horses and rode as an amateur both/there and in India. Returning to England in .1906, he began training at Tilsheadv;/owning a number of horses in. .partnei^hip;. with the late Lord Westbury. /.Among the horses lie had brought with hinvivere'. the Australian Dalkeith' and the :N.ew Zealander Nightfall. The latter wifs one of that famous team which R.;J,,-Mason took to Eamlwick for My. Stead; in'.the'l spring of 1905 when 2v"ew Zealand ne|r]y; :Sc . OO p e[ i tlie pool. Nightfall s share'^n.'.that Australian: debacle comprised wins,hi 'the. Squatters' 'Handicap and Randwiek 3?] ate.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 143, 19 June 1934, Page 4
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