THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1961.
women in racing
THIS WEEK: MRS NOEL MURLESS
In her back garden
race horses
worth a million!
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Red Turkey carpet in the warm country living-room. Pink chintz on the deep, comfortable chairs. A scatter of magazines. Logs on the fire. Dad chats quietly in his fireside choir. Daughter Julia, 19, hugs her knees on the floor.
And mother-pleasantly plump in her mid-forties; fair hair, candid, al- most challenging blue eyes; and a kind of pretty, broad face that one secs more often in the south-west of Scotland-is concerned with the tea trolley, the sandwiches, the sugar lumps.
As diasıy middle-clars
Tomly setling down for a wha-
1 rvening at home....
has
By FRANK ENTWISTLE
Exct that if the Queen had arrived for ten Mrs Gwen Mur- Jes would be handling the, situatie with the same familiar 「it upkorb....a.
done who was leading the Grayt aften before....
Nasional Beld in 1954 when be Except that she has £1,000,000 stopped dend 50 yards from th worth of quee horves in her back | winning post, gandien.
And 24-year-old Red Apen. And except that on hour One of his last top wins was the from w she will put on her £5,000 Queen Elizabeth Chase blue, padded jacket and tramp at ilurst Park ten years ago. oul into the cold night with her! And Pinturiachie. Six Victor
husband Sassoon's three-year-old daughter and her trainee Neel Murless, and visit coll, son of Derby winger Plaza, 76 dillerent loose
guy- and perhaps the main talning 75 horses,...hur nightly | hope for this year.
TOUTE
boxes
A carrm for that one, a lump
of sagt for this old favourite of the turf, oft word for them all...the cream of the Beitig turl.
Be
was
THE BIG WINNERS
There's Petite Etolle, beautiful grey beast that the apple of Aly Khan's eye, the Ervatest ally in Europe,
There's St Paddy, last year's Derby and St Leger winner.
And dear old Devon Loch, the Queen Mother's dark brown by
bay
Atuble
alt
Victor
Sir PIN3 Suson's four sal forms, and ong of his GW,
And If he is the king of the Muriess is cer- trainers, Gwen tainty queen,
કેરલામાં કાપના
Mrs Murless with three of her dogs... in the background a painting of Petite Etoile, the greatest filly in Europe.
comes perhaps times a yeur.
She admits
threo
#
bit
AL 3.50 every morning she, is abroad without eating to ride out a horse with the string She Queen gels back two hours later for breakfast, then out again with the next gallops until 10.45.
Then, In tite racing season she hittery
ihe: husband iv drives her
Bentley races in the drophead
And nine of the Queen's horses. And ihree of the Ashe got an a present from Sir
Khan's.
Place grea!
Victor SansCOM."
They get back in the evenlug and bave their first real med since breakfast,
feeling the first time they "But now we look for eline, ward
They're to them.
the Casiest and mort charming enter- people in the world lu tain. And they love horses,"
Trainer Noel Murless is a lear, handsome man with #1 calm leathery face. For three of the
NINE HOUSES, 40 BOYS
been four years he has
Her home is a big red-brick
Even apart from the stud top trainer; Warren
mansion built in 1927 but richly
farms, running Warren Place is his stables across The
decorated with carved timbers the kind of complicated ad- heathland sweep from New-recovered from old wooden menministrative job that would market town having crashed the G' war. Its preydong occupant
klep a chairman and board £100,000 prize-money barrier was the Maharajah of Baroda.
busy in industry. cach time (145,726 in 1959). Here Gwen Murless (she fins Warren Place averagon about 50 la etok zud two other helps) winners a year, starting late int must entertain macin': people the reason and finishing carly. |from all over the world. The
Four D. Jones THE SKYMAN IS IN A BY MADDOCKS
CLOUD OF CANDY FLOSS PHOTOGRAPHING FOREIGN ROCKET BASES
FERDINAND
VLADIMIR, I HEAR STRANGE NOISES
FROM ABOVE
NANCY
BUT I
NO TICKEE --- NO LAUNDRY
LATER
LOST
THE TICKET
LAUNDRY
BRICK BRADFORD
GAT RID
OF HIM!
WG PONIT
NOOD HIM 15 NG WON'T
TALK)
YOU'RE RIGHT, AUX .....
HES UGELECE TO US IP HEMONT TELL US
HOW TO OPERATE THE
CONTROLS,
OKAY,THEN,
WOLL TAXE HIM TO THE AIR
LOCK!
THE LISTENING DETECTOR
IS STRAINING 175 LISTEN
NO---WE CAN'T GET
YOUR LAUNDRY FOR YOU
COMO ON! ITS
TMG TD
MAVEL
There are blue houses on the 17 seren, and 40 boys in the sables cuntgin.
VLADIVOSTOK!
IT SOUNDS LIKE THE CLICK OF A FURE-TAKING MACHINE
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
--WE HAVE
A FEW MORE IMPORTANT PROBLEMS ON HAND
HERE THEY COME!
UNITED NATIONS
By Paul Norris
THEY ARE STALL WEARING
THEIR HELMOTSI YOJ,
KNOW WHAT TO DO Į
"I was carrying on with the odil horro, und won a Indies' Jace in Denmark in 1930, she recalis. Tin Sir Victor Sassoon gave me Limque und Noel trained R. I remember it won the Wolvision Handicap at Stockton on a Saturday (April D. 1930) and the Montagu Handicap Hurdle at Weiherby In the next Tuesday (April 111."
SNOWED UP FOR WEEKS
The Murless24 married i12 1040. Since then they have ified many adventures. Firm the cruel winter of 1947 when they were index{ Up 10 weeks with 40 horses, out withen wircices, ectricity of telephone in their moorland stables in Yorkshire (" hard time but plenty of loughs") ...⠀
To their more recent trips to Arizona and Florida ("American racing too mueli tike the dogs").
And now, in spite of all their success on the turf, they both agree they are not interesied in "racing as racing", They are fascinated by breeding. They love borses. But when their borges have run, they usually pack up and leave.
On women in racing sho says: "Lady riders don't want to go riding with jockeys, {
Rece Tras damn nonsense. riding is lough.
"A lot of trainers employ girls In the stables. We don't. It's not the life for a girl in my opinion.
Daughter Julla is as much in
love with horses as her parents. Last year she won the New- market Town Plate (a ladles' race).
Gwen Murles (nee Carlow)
in the or is deeply involved
Her mar all this. Anisailor. ot Eurband discusses most prob- lems with her, She loves the fife, and cannot remember time when she could not ride,
She was born near Ayr and war given her Br racehorse, Golden Crown, when she was And as Julia fondles a five- a girl. She trained it herself year-old in the loose box during The colours nec royal blue the evening tour of the stables. strips); and Gwen Murless whispers to me -- with yellow cross Rwer on the day. of King "That's Red Plas....Sir Vic- May 1935, when Golden Crown and sets on Red Gicipe Ve silver Jubilee in tor's....For Julie, the sun rises.
won in a selling race at Kejso, moment." that she
Noel met
Murless, then working with trainer Fenwick Palmer at Penrith,
Next day his own horse Eagle Hill wen at Kelso,
She owns a two-year-old boy thely Mary Francis, named after The imaginary childhood com- panion she blamed for all her own misdemeanours.
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Back in the living-room, the Arelight Alckers on the pictures ou the wall. A painting of BL Paddy....photographs of great horses....and cne of those Isentimental Victorian steel en
gravings depicting an afd inn lby a farm-house fire dreaming
of foxes and horses.
Noel Murless is telling how at a cocktail party in Madeira an- olher quest drew him aside and sald:
"Sec
that fair-hairod woman over there. She's Mrs Murless..., wife of the trainer. ....Of course she's the brains of the organisation, you know."
In fact Noel Murless is very much the boss of Warren Place. But for a lieutenant, he has a Tare, knowledgeable and charm- ing wife.
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PENTAX
DAY MAY 6th, 1961.
ALL OWNERS OF ASAHI PENTAX CAMERAS ARE INVITED.
PENTAX DAY will be held on Saturday, the 0th May, 1901 and all Owners of Asahi Pentax Cameras are invited to take port and to enter the competition later for the best photographs produced. A free Sea-Food Dinner at the Tal Pak Floating Restaurant, Aberdeen, will be arranged for the photographers."
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or
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On payment of this Fee, the photographer will be given HK$10.00 worth of ADOX Film and a Golden "PENTAX" Lodge.
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Niclare-Taking Programme:
Programme will start at 4.00 p.m. sharp, including a water-skling Show and ski-jumping, Japanese girls dressed in full nationgl costume and a "TORAY" Collapsible Yacht by Hong Kong Dajinnru Department Store, etc.
inner and Lucky fraw
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