TWICE OUTED FOR LIFE

NZ Truth, Issue 1180, 12 July 1928, Page 13

TWICE OUTED FOR LIFE

Ring-In Thought To Be Horse From Auckland RED FORTUNE'S MISFORTUNE ■■■ ■ / • (By Cable: — From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Sydney Representative.) If the horse named Red Fortune, which was disqualified for life at Charleville last week is really identical with Chairman, he has 'been twice outed for keeps. .

pHARLEVILLE is a small town m \\f Central-Western Queensland. ; A big stir was caused there when I the bona fides of Red Fortune were questioned by the stipendiary steward. Life disqualification followed this investigation.. , Last year a horse named Red For- ! tune started only twice m Gentral-Westei-n Queensland. .:; \ On each occasion he. won with his head on his chest. ' . Had he been taken to Brisbane then, he would have been backed m any race, but he was kept m the CentralWest and his bona fides secretly investigated. f In October' last a diggers' meet- : ing was held at Charleville, and on the programme was a maiden ; race.. .. • - • • ■ 1 Nominations. were large and amongst the entries was a horse nominated as Red Fortune. ... He was shown aa being by Red Knight from Misfortune ;and bearing the well-known brand of the Thylunga station. Came the first day of the meeting and Red Fortune won. And he won again on the second day. ' In the meantime inquiries had been instituted. Photographs of the horse, from all angles, were taken and his deeds back-tracked. ' All his registration papers were m order, but the stipe was not satisfied, and an exhaustive inquiry was made. ■ As a result, E. J. M. Fegler, for many years manager of the Thylunga station, and . Robert Ward, ownertrainer of Red Fortune, were outed for life, together with the gelding.

Red Fortune Is said to. be identical with ' the New Zealand gelding Chairman, by Nassau out of Culross, and to have been bought for 1500 guineas after winning eight races m Maoriland. • He was brought to Australia some time after January: 3, * 1927, on the Ulimaroa, and was entrained to Bourke. 'Appeals against the. disqualification have been lodged, and they will be heard m Toowoomba next month. "N.Z. Truth's" special Auckland representatives wires: Chairman was owned and raced m New Zealand by R. C. Wallace, of Manger e, Auckland, doing most of his racing, m the northern district. - He is a son of Nassau — Culross and would now be rising seven years old. ' As a two-year-old when trained by Norm. Cunningham, of Ellerslie, he created a stir m the bookmakers' 'camp by the amount .of money he was supported to win when he took a Juvenile event at Paeroa. . Later on he was trained by the late Charles Hodder, and then by Jim Buchanan, m whose charge he was Wheni sipld through Dr. Ring to go to an Australian buyer a;t a figure reported to be m the vicinity of £600. He won several . races up north, one of the most important being the £400 Cambridge Handicap at the Waikato spring meeting of 1926That was his last victory m New Zealand, though he figured !n the also started division on half a dozen later occasions, his final start m this country being at Paeroa on March. 17, 1927. He was shipped* to Sydney by the Maunganui on April 1 of the same year. :