AIR RAIDS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21220, 17 September 1940, Page 2

AIR RAIDS

EFFECT ON RACEHORSES MANY FRENCH HORSES MISSING (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, July 10 : Owners, trainers and stud owners : have been wondering (says J. H. Park, in the Evening Standard) how i their racehorses would behave if ever ! they were in air raids. | Dick Carver, English trainer in | France to Lord Derby and Lady j Granard, is now back in England with • experience of raids at Chantilly and elsewhere. Carver tells me that when first in | a raid the horses worked themselves up into a terrific state, tried to climb | up the walls of their boxes and did all sorts of things. | Soon, however, they became ac- • customed to the row and, probably thinking it was thunder, took little ; notice. Even those out in the paddocks eventually behaved normally. Horses Scattered French trainers have had a lively j time. The few who got out of the : country have no idea what happened I to the horses. ! Some left Chantilly with their ! horses, then returned, but when the German advance became rapid they moved again for the South and BorI deaux. | Carver, his wife and some other ; trainers got a Dutch boat, which had ; an English captain, out of Bordeaux, j They left the horses with stable lads, j That was the last they saw of them, j Pharis and Djebel, French crack i racehorses, were then all right, but : where they are today is not known. • The value of the bloodstock left ! in France cannot be calculated. Most j of the big studs were in Normandy and thus are in German hands.