IMPORTED HORSE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 104, 23 July 1927, Page 6

IMPORTED HORSE

GRAND KNIGHT READY PREPARING FOR THE SPRING Seen walking round the roads at Trentham the other day, with head down and eyes snowing an unusual quantity of white, was the imported English stallion Grand Knight. Inquiry elicited the fact that Grand Knight is in work again, and soon will be doing his track exercise along with the rest of the Trentham contingent. Since he last appeared in public Grand Knight has had a change of trainers. He is now under the tutorship of Captain Gage Williams, whereas his former trainer was S. J. Reid. Reid trained him for Mr. Vivian Riddiford, by whom he was leased from Mr. Eric Riddiford. Now that the lease has run out, he is to run in the colours of Mr. Eric Riddiford, for whom Captain Williams trains, and that Is how the change of stables has come about. LOOKS A PICTURE Grand Knight looks the picture of health, and is not as gross as one might expect him to be. All the same, he is gross enough, and will take a bit of knocking into shape. He is expected to make his reappearance under silk in the spring, and probably his first race will be run at the spring fixture of the Wanganui Jockey Club. It may be remembered that it was at Wanganui toward the end of the autumn that he ran his last race before he commenced the holiday which has just terminated. Though the Wanganui course is a small one, and not at all calculated to suit the bigstriding English horse, he ran great races there, and was exceedingly unfortunate not to win a race at the meeting. If he is brought back in as good form as he was at that time he will pay his way, without the shadow of a doubt, during the spring which is now near at hand. He is a class horse, and is not too high up in the weights to win. i