IT TOOK TIME

NZ Truth, Issue 1153, 5 January 1928, Page 10

IT TOOK TIME

Paying Back His Money

A horse that is sold for a good figure is always more or less in the public eye.

ANE that comes under, this category is Atareria, an Australian -'bred gelding.

Bought; cheaply over the other side, he started to show promising form.

Twelve months back, when Herbert Gaisford was at Ellerslie, he took a fancy to Atareria and priced him.

Next he 'bought him, but it was not till Waipukurau that the gelding won for his new owner.

Then a week later at Hastings he returned some more of his purchase

money.

When Atarerla was sold it was announced that a thousand /was paid for him. This is incorrect.

His then owner wanted £800 and his would-be owner offered' £700.

Neither seemed keen to shift from his figure and there was a likelihood of a 'deadlock.

Then it was decided to toss

wjiich way it should be,

The spin of the coin went against Herbert Gaisford and he wrote his cheque for £800.