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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1397, 7 March 1905, Page 1

.Tie Snorting Review had 'the' following remarkable paragraph:— Spar.tmen generally will regret to learn that the annual report o£ the Wellington Park Stud Company, disclosea a considerable loss, and this feeling will be intensified when it is icarnt .that Mr. Thos. Morrin is resigning his position as managing director. 'Wellington .Park without Mr Morrin , will seem a good deal like Hamlet, without the ghost, for. he h&s presided over the desti- 1 nies of the famous stud farm for many years. As a student of breeding, the retiring managing director has few equals, and to .use a homely expression^—what he does not know about a horse is not worth learning.: The last lew years have been the break up of many well-known stud farms in the colonies and the fact cannot be overlooked that the breeding of thoroughbreds is a somewhat uncertain game, arid it requires a large amount of luck to make it profitable. Wellington Park has not, had many smiles from Daimc Fortune recently, the mortality list having been very heavy, while the annual sale did not come up to expec--. Nations. . ■ This being so, the directors have decided fto economise as far as possible, and this is, in. 'p'art the reason for Mr Morrin’s retirement. That he will be greatly missed goes without saying, for he had given much time and an infinity of care to- the successful raising of good bloodstock,, and the unique roll of-fame -shows immxstakeably- - that his efibpts in'this direction were not-; unavailing, for many of the - finest racehors.es whichJe iJi^-car rj ed silk ini ' , light under