HOW TO FIND WINNERS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 88, 23 September 1938, Page 4

HOW TO FIND WINNERS

—FOR OTHER PEOPLE PRINCE ALY KHAN TELLS Prince. Aly Khan cheerfully explained. to a Daily Express reporter recently liis knack of finding surewinner horses for other people. .This. 27-year-old son of Prince Aga Khan found Bois Roussel for Mr Peter Beatty, which won the Derby for him. He did it again with Foxglove 11, sold the horse to Air Beatty, and won the Ascot Gold Vase.

“That’s just what it is, a knack,” he said at Grosvenor House. “Either you’ve got it, or you haven’t.”

“I’ve been brought up among horses, and go to every race-meeting I,can. Win or lose, 1 jviitch the style of a horse, look particularly for hope of improvement.

“I have my own horses in training. I help in the management of my fathers horses and L do know what I’m about.

“You’ve got to think of. breeding, of course- Knowing what a horse should he like tells you wlmt faults to look for, what good points to expect. And there is always the uncertainty that a. grandi horse can come from the most unlikely stock.

“I get an impression about a horse. Either I like it or 1 don't, and when I don’t 1 should often be hard put to give any real reason. When Ido L try to buy that horse if the price is at all reasonable.

“Y’soe, 1 collect horses like some people collect jewels or houses and I really enjoy picking what 1 think is going to be a winner .later on. Oiten f may be a. bit too optimistic, but when L get what you might call a real ‘hunch’ —wliv, then, it’s good.

“But it’s usually other people who benefit from my luck. .Racing and race-horses are like that.”