IN THE BLOOD
A South Island trainer recently received a letter from one of his patrons suggesting that he should try his (the patron’s) representative in the stable over the battens, as the gelding’s grandmother was a natural jumper. This line of argument brings to mind a recent case of the father of a stablehand contending that the boy should develop into a good rider, as his mother was a full sister to “T. 8.,” one of the best horsemen of his day in New Zealand.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1070, 6 September 1930, Page 12
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86IN THE BLOOD Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1070, 6 September 1930, Page 12
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