BIG MONEY IN GOOD BLOOD.

Otaki Mail, Volume 27, 28 November 1919, Page 4

BIG MONEY IN GOOD BLOOD.

The Melbourne Cup meeting sent Comedy King to the head of the windug sires for the first fourteen weeks of the season with a total that would have been reckoned -very big for a horse to earn during tho whole year two decades back. An old and experienced trainer, who spent many years in Victoria right at the top of (he tree, and who now lives in Sydney, told me (says “Milroy”) on his return from Melbourne that Comedy King’s crack son Artilleryman was, in his opinion, the best three-vcar-old he ever-.saw, and lie accounts for his Derby defeat—in fact, all his defeats—by his being short of work. He thinks Artilleryman is a gross horse, and requires a lot of work, and is satisfied lie would have won the Melbourne Derby had he been given a couple of searching gallops in the last. week. Unquestionably tho gallop he got. in the Derby transformed him into a totally different. horse on Cup day. Artilleryman’s 'winnings this season amount to £13,335, which, racked on to tho £925 won as - a two-vear-old, brings his winnings up to £14,200. His sire has always been well up in the winning list from his first season. Lust } r ear he was sixth on the list with £.13,450, and a year earlier no was third to Linaere and The Welkin with £21,181, and the previous season returned £9-135. His present owner, Mr Norman Falkiner, of Noorilim, in tho Goulbnrn Valley, was well advised tc- go past 7000 guineas for him at tho break-up of the Shipley .Stud. Mr Falkiner has decided to take only six public marcs to Comedy King at 250 guineas a mare, providing they arc booked for two seasons.