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BAILIFFS SALE BARGAIN Interesting Tale of Horse, After Roaming City Street and Finally Sold for 0, Winning Races. Here is an interesting story by a Brisbane correspondent of the Sydney Referee in which he tells of an unusual turf bargain, a horse named Kintrockat, which roamed the streets, was twice impounded, then sold at a bailiffs sale and later returned to racing to win for his fortunate purchaser. The story follows: "Kintrockat, which is by The Black Joke, was bred by Q. T. C. committeeman, E. L. Ramsay, at Banchory, and for a season or two carried that sportsmans colors in races at Toowoomba and Brisbane. Last year when he was showing plenty of promise, Mr. Ramsay sold him for 100 guineas to a racing man from New Guinea, who was making some spectacular tilts at the betting ring during an extended stay in Brisbane. He made Kintrockat the medium of several big plunges, which misfired and then, apparently cured of his late developed interest in the turf, he returned to New Guinea, leaving the horse on the trainers hands. "For the trainer, Kintrockat proved a big disappointment, and finally received his maching orders. At a later stage he wandered aimlessly round the streets of Ascot for weeks, looking nothing more than skin and bone. His only feed was that which he nibbled from the grass-lined footpaths. Twice he was impounded and finally took his place with a number of other "croks at a bailiffs sale. So little interest did he create among buyers, that he brought only 0 and even that was not easy to get. "His purchase was trainer Jim Carroll, j who was acting on behalf of Jack Bruce, ! an Ipswich sportsman, for whom he trains that promising mare, Louisa Valley. Carroll ! had seen possibilities in the dual cast-off, i and persuaded his patron to risk a modest j speculation. Six weeks holiday and plenty ! of good feed worked an amazing change in. I Kintrockats appearance, and when Carroll ! produced him in a race several weeks ago, he looked a picture of health and robust-I ness. Carroll brought him along steadily, j and at Bundamba last week threw in for a substantial coup. Ridden from behind, instead of being taken to the front, the geld- ing came home in great style to beat the hot favorite Feltona. "As he is still a comparatively young ! horse, Kintrockat looks like going on to bet- I ter things, but if he never shows up again, he has been a wonderful proposition for the i 0 paid for him."
