RECLUSE AND HIS STABLE COMPANIONS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 396, 24 August 1889, Page 3

RECLUSE AND HIS STABLE COMPANIONS.

The Wanganui scribe '• Gipsy King" has, been looking over the stables where Kecluse occupies a hox. He writes :—": — " One would hardly credit that the colt could have grown up and thickened out so much " since his last appearance in public. During, his three-year-old racing' he was generally! 1 admired, but turfites will find him a, very' different horse when- he strips fvv v spring events, and I have every confidence that his careful trainer, ' Teddy ' Bar.ps, wjjl .bring him as- fit to. the post as he, did las,t •season. At preaent Recluse t js "''suffer-, ing from a yery. severe cold,' but the' •return of warmer weather will'* probably bring Him round quickly. Prince of Wales, the Ingomar — Victoria, colt, has 4 also grown the right way, although the Blight dip in his back is more noticeable" now than before. Sleep (by Somnus — Yatterina) is as handsome a two-year-old as' I have ever seen, and is splendidly pu.fr •together whatever way she is taken,' although some may take exception to her knees being a trifle slack, but this is only a 1 minor matter when the general conformation is good. It is almost impossible to pick out any particular part of her * structure ' that is more prominent than another, and if she turns out as good as she looks there should be frequent ' Birthdays ' at Momohaki."