DAY BELL FINISHED

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 141, 5 September 1927, Page 12

DAY BELL FINISHED

PROMISING JUMPER MEETS UNTIMELY END TO CAREER

Regarded as one of the most promising hurdlers seen out for some considerable time, the Ellerslie—trained horse Day Bell has now to be numbered among the defunct.

All lovers of a good horse will learn this with regret, for young jumpers such as Day Bell are few and far between, and the joint owners, Dr. A. McGregor Grant and Dr. W. C. Ringj are to be sympathi/ed with in their loss. Day Bell only started twice as a two-year-old, and was not raced the following season. Last season he began to make a name for himself as a jumper, first coming into prominence when he deadheated with Royal Form in a steeplechase at the Ohinemurj meeting in March last.

BRILLIANT HURDLER

At the Avondale autumn meeting the eon of Day Comet and the one time brilliand mare Chime won the Hobsonville

Hurdles from Archibald and P-eter Rosa, and on the strength of this was later fancied for the Century Hurdles at Wanganui. There he got into trouble and in endeavouring to jump the birdcage fence knocked himself about a bit. Nevertheless he ran a rattling good race, only fading out over the last bit. A fortnight later Day Bell filled third place to Wedding March and Archibald in the Great Northern Hurdles, and twenty-four hours afterwards he won the Remuera Hurdles from Archibald and Royal Abbey. On the final day of the Great Northern meeting Dav Bell fell.

From this brief record it will be seen that there was every' reason to view Day Bell’s future as a hurdler and a ’chaser in a very favourable light, and his demise when there are not a great number of good ones about is regrettable.

Day Bell had been aiiing for a week, and despite the efforts of Dr. Ring the horse died yesterday.

Last season Day Bell won £1,062 10s in stake money, which for a four-year-old jumper was exceptionally good.