GOOD STOCK

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 982, 27 May 1930, Page 12

GOOD STOCK

HIGHLY-BRED YOUNGSTERS

Mr. S. J. Gibbons (the owner of Equitant) is at present handling a large team at Marton. Included are a two-year-old gelding by Nigger Minstrel—Equitas, a chestnut yearling by Diacquenod—Oratress, a bay yearling filly by Hunting Song—Martianette (Martian —Equitas), and a brown yearling colt by Hunting Song—Windbag (Absurd—Oratress).

HORSES DRANK CHAMPAGNE OLT OF SILVER TROUGHS A hospital ward and a paupers grave have ended the meteoric career of Katharine Gaal, once a renowned beauty, records a message from Budapest. Wife of a head waiter of a Budapest cafe, her charms captivated a Count Erdody, who took her to Paris. Hef« she gradually became the centre of the gay life of the international aristocracy. Jewels worth millions were showered on her; she had a palace in Pani and in Vienna, a villa in Monte Carlo, a yacht on the Mediterranean, and he? racehorses drank champagne from silver troughs. The Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaievitch and King Louis of Bavaria were said to have paid her marked attention. When her charms began to she became the victim of the gambnnf passion. , She was interned at the outbreak • : the war and, broken in health and fortune, returned to Budapest. Here she tried to support herself a* ; a teacher of languages. She died penniless, though anM JJJ t her papers were found rhcquM . large sums signed by a wealtW j French magnate.