PLENTY OF HORSES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 135, 9 June 1937, Page 15

PLENTY OF HORSES

Gl PRICE'S SPRING TEAM

Among the visitors to Wanganui for the Wanganui Jockey Club's Winter. Meeting last weekend was Mr. George Price, the well-known Sydney trainer. Formerly one of the most prominent riders in the Dominion and later a successful trainer, Mr. Price went to Australia some 16 years ago and set up a:- a trainer in Sydney. It was not long before he was firmly established as one or the leading .trainers in Australia, horses turned- out by him winning many of the most important races on the other side of the Tasman.

The primary purpose of Mr. Price's present visit has been to make arrangements for the shipment to Australia of the Beau Pere—Helen colt The Squire, who has' been receiving his early education at the hands of Mrs. A. W. Me-. Donald at Awapuni since his purchase on behalf of Mr. E. J. Watt (Sydney) for 1050. guineas at the National Sales in January. The Squire is to leave for his new home tomorrow, and ho will be accompanied by Dr. N. Smith's Limond —Anklet colt, who was purchased at the yearling sales and is to enter the stable of Mr. P. Nailon at Sydney, and by Mr. T. H. Lowry's brilliant but unlucky four-year-old Haut Monde, who has been entered for the Epsom Handicap, the Metropolitan Handicap, the Toorak Handicap, the Caulfield Cup,' and the Melbourne Cup.

Prominent among Mr. Price's string of 25 horses -in training at Sydney at present are Egmont, who is to contest the next Melbourne Cup, Gold Rod, who is being prepared for spring weight-for-age engagements. Grand Boy, Troy, and Nightingale. Including The Squire, whom he is taking across to Australia, Mr. Price will have in commission ten yearlings. They are Mildura (Manfred—Miss Meadow), Peckmpre (Veilmond —Pecka), Lizette (Doric—Louise), Pin Money (Chivalrous—Parsimony), Pandaua (BrazenRing Again), Lakshni (TheßuzzardLady Fuglebury), Adios (Excitement — Tinkledell). Molten Gold (Rosewing— Linlass, and named after a Coronation cocktail), and Homeric (Iliad —Quadrilateral). Homeric was the Elderslie colt who fetched 1800 guineas at the Sydney Easter sales.