CHAMOUR’S END

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 50, 21 May 1927, Page 9

CHAMOUR’S END

BROKEN_FETLOCK

MISHAP AT ELLERSLIE A VALUABLE HORSE While galloping in company with Master Doon at Ellerslie this morning over six furlongs, the three-year-old Catmint gelding Chamour broke a fetlock, and was subsequently destroyed. Chamour, who was galloping well, had covered about half the journey when the mishap occurred. Chamour was a well-bred youngster, being by Catmint from Solonia, and was a very promising sort. He was owned by Mr. B. Goldwater, and trained by the Ellerslie mentor, J. E. Thorpe, for whom he had won a tew races this season. CHAMOUR’S PERFORMANCES Chamour sported silk on three occasions as a two-year-old, and while not securing a stake, showed ability as a galloper. The son of Catmint opened his winning account this season by winning the Auckland Handicap, one mile, at the Pakuranga Hunt fixture, and followed this success up by annexing the Swanson Hack Handicap at the Avondale spring meeting. The Auckland spring fixture saw Chamour again successful in a mile event, the Normanby Plate falling to his lot. ST. LEGER EFFORT Chamour contested the Great Northern St. Leger Stakes at the recent Auckland Easter racing carnival, and made a good impression by bis resolute style of galloping. In the big flassic Mr. Goldwater’s gelding finished second to the champion Commendation, a striking performance, especially as the 14 furlongs were cut out in splendid time. CORNWALL HANDICAP PROSPECTS With the appearance of the weights lor the Cornwall Handicap, the chief fiat event at the forthcoming local winter meeting, in which he was allotted the handy impost of Bst 31b. Chamour became one of the pre-post favourites, and his early admirers were more than pleased with the manner in which the gelding was going along in his preparation for the mile and a-quarter event. VALUABLE ANIMAL Chamour, whose future racing prospects were full of promise, was a Valuable animal, and the loss is a severe one for his sporting owner. The early termination of the Catmint gelding’s racing career ie also a Joss to the turf, as it was quite on the cards that with age Chamour have proved a valuable handicap winner.