COST HIM GOOD MONEY

NZ Truth, Issue 1198, 15 November 1928, Page 13

COST HIM GOOD MONEY

Laughing Prince May Have Beep In Other Hands | BARGAIN FDR TGM DUNCAN f Slow to get off the mark, and slow on the way out, has cost a would-be Wellington owner some money.

IN the autumn of 1927 Walter Jorgensen had decided on a trip round the globe, and his horses m training came under the hammer. Jt was on the off day of the Trentham March meeting when the auctioneer called for his bids. One horse, Laughing Prince was knocked down to Fred Tilley, buying on behalf of Tom Duncan, for lOOOgns. And this is where the would-be . Wellington owner was out of luck. He wanted a horse and Laughing Prince suited him; but owing to being held up on the way to Trentham, he arrived to find the horse sold for what he thought a most reasonable price. The very next day Laughing Prince, with 9.7, on a holding track, bolted with the Pacific Handicap and returned £420 of his purchase money. He was then put away till . next season, but, though he failed to win a Derby, he was successful m other events to the tune of £3190.

To date this season "The Fri4s£J£ has won four races— and a coupli kq£ gold cups— and £2750 m stake moxaffl|iv At the Rtccarton meeting he hac grab difficulty m accounting for the O pfc terbury Cup^-his first success ove ssife mile and three-quarters — and .fsalfc Stead Cup. : Each race was easy ior him, an|||; the job he made of Rapier when Kp^ went up to him two furlongs, froggy, home, was immense. f I^SSp Rapier was left behind like a c^' mon garden hack. /&^ Laughing Prince is one of the QußSfttock stock— stock which they will jfdt stand for m Australia.. "..'■• >t'v: Yet, strange to say, the few of tjjat .horse's • gets that have come this i£ia.y have all paid their '.way. / w^ Laughing Prince has, of,- course, Tb^Srt a gold mine, but two of the breedgat Trentham — Staghunter and , Quantute^ . have not been sluggards altogether^if