TOYS AND TROTTERS

NZ Truth, Issue 1108, 24 February 1927, Page 6

TOYS AND TROTTERS

THREE things loom very large m the -life of J. R. McKenzie, to. wit, trotting-horses, novelty shops and' a taste for "soft" clothes^-grey for preference: .: -. '"•> ;:~ „:;' '' But J.R. is not nearly -: so: soft as his taste for sartorial decoration; "He knows a bit of horseflesh "with the best

of 'em, and can put Over . as" -hardheaded a deal as the rest of them. .Built on willowy lines,! rather' pale and /of quiet disposition, he has the sharp ' brain of a man who knows what he wants and knows when he's got It. The fact that he heads the list of owners m the trot-

ting statistics for the first six months of the 1926-27 season . speaks - pretty Awell for itself, for everyone knows " that Great Bingen turned, out an absolute fnoney-maker. " : v He does most things on a very, big scale, and believes that if a thing Is really worth having it is worth paying for. ■ . ; - " A string of horses and a string of-' novelty shops all over the Bominionf. keep, him .out of mischief. >. In-the control of the sport he has played a very prominent-part indeed, and his appointment the board ofV the New Zealand Trotting.Association; places him m a sphere where there is scope for his judgment "and -foresight. ::