SPORTING.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1932, Page 5

SPORTING.

SIMBA RECOVERED. DEALER-TRAINER ARRESTED. (Per Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, March 24. Simba the New Zealand ratclmrse who lias caused one sensation after another, since Iris arrival at Sydney last year, culminating in his disappearance last December lias been recovered at Enfield. >

Police Sergeant Small saw a horse poking his head out of a- stable door and immediately recognised it as the missing racehorse. Simba. He looked a wreck of a thoroughbred, liis hips and ribs were sticking through his skin.

A man living in a house in the adjoining paddock was arrested.

Later Albert Norman McCoy, a horse dealer and trainer, was i barged with having stolen the gelding walued at £1,500. He was remanded <m £SOO bail.

DISPERSAL SALE, ASHBURTON, Mrch 24. Five hundred attended the sale of 11. E. Nieholl’s trotters. Bidding was not brisk. A. J. Xiclioll bought Arathusa. lor 425 guineas; Bracken for 230 guineas and Wraeklor lor 225 guineas. 0. FT. Nioholl purchased Giro lor 175 guineas. Other sales, wore Ganeilia, B. Richards, Geraldine 12.1 guineas; Gativick, 'Captain (Palfrey, Wanganui, 20 guineas; Ayr, a Tasmanian buyer 3/ '• guineas; Pearl Pointer, McDonald Bros ti Mel liven 13 guineas; Reclaim, E. I loltiK'S, Rieeii Hun 100 guineas; Eoi-elli, IE MeKewnii, Ashburton. 22! guineas; W’nu-keen, \\ . •). Ro'iertson, Ashburton 70 guineas. Wrack was passed on at 500 gi'jineas and First Wrack at 28(1 guineas. Rules on account <>l 11. G. .Vicholl were:—Ruin, J. I*. McKctidry, Gyndliiirst, 140 guineas ; Lady Swithcu, •). T. Paul, Au-kbiml, r () guineas.