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HIS NAME IS BIG GAME : IT'S ENOUGH
TO MAKE A HORSE LAUGH,
BUT-
HE only nationalised industry in Britain which 18
run at n
profit stands on its own four feet and is Π racehorse named Big Game.
Big Game is lord of the National Stud at Gilling- ham, Dorset: a stallion that has been earning approxi- mately £10,000 a year for the past eight years.
Other horses, mares, and foals at the stud have helped to swell the total profits to £195,000 since it became a department of the Ministry of Agriculture.
And to whom
does this
successful nationalised
industry owc
its existence?
To a Tory M.P.
It
was
Thanksgiving Square
by-
Ernest Thomson
"WILIGHT is a reasonable, gible and practical form of
'time to visit Mecklen- "Thank you." burgh Square, Blooms-, Hance the £2,000,000 schemo- bury, London, and, if you to anise and maintain another
"London House" choose. Saturday evening
on the north kide of Mecklenburgh Square you can share three-quarters, for women and married students of the square with a fow' from the
"
Commonwealth, and prehistoric automobiles to convert the historic set of parked economically with Geortan houses or
kide as a residence for utüdenta lights off beside the lamp from the United States. posts, an bwl or two booting in the tall plane, trees, and
a rich assortment of ghests. .'
the east
о
Own Atmosphere Mecklenburgh Square, though The other quarter of the it may Intk the medieval dig- square-to be exact, the south nity of the ancient universities side-la completely prilially, of Oxford and Cambridge, has The wisdom of the
owl may its own flavoured atmosphere resido there, but
I think our cortainly not which
student owls, for the light and hubbub cuests will enjoy. The last of "London House" have long may fit away when the pneu. since driven them away.
matic drill and the controle -mixers invade the
quiet precinct, London House, as all Britain but when the new buildings knows, is the collegiate home of have been put I fancy the
up: atudents from all parts of the ghost of that great and 'good Commonwealth, set in the hub Dhilanthropist, Captain
Thomas of London's
university "quart- Coram,
comu slipping cr", only o discus throw from acros
across the grassy
shade of London University itself, the evening from nearby Coram's British Museum, the Great Fields where, more than two teaching hospitals and the Inns hundred years ago, his home for of Court.
homeless children was set up before even the rich city mor chants had established- them selves in Mecklenburgh Square.
In The News
dozen remote
Gullford Street with stacks of famous "Hospital").
It is a
good
Hero at supper time you can meet men from Canada, or the For Caplain Coram, after Union of South: Africa, India, knocking around the world for Australia und
perhaps hak ancurly 50 years; had a rare comers of the feeling for the lonely and home- Colonial Empire. They fit like sick (the good old man was hadows past the high walls of over 70 when e founded his and soino- volumes under their thing of bis
his spirit "permeates arms to Join the throng in the the neighbourhood, still. big hall. The glow from the high friendly district
Fiven to foort Horses bred at the National refectory windows spihy's out works. One venerable Georgian Stud race under the King's to the dark festnesses
of of residence hous;s the offices braid, Mecklenburgh Square-n square, the Nufleld Foundation, world- colours, purple, gold scarlet sleeves, black velvet cap which has suddenly made news, famous for its benefactions in with gold fringe.
the cause of clinical research. Let us face the fact that, at leased to the moment, London House is before World War
London House itself, erected the King who pays the cost of the unty portion of Mecklen- training and racing them. The burgh Square that is not dingy, being extended, miraculously King takes two thirds of any dilapidated and musty with the scaped serious bomb damage, prize money they may win ghosts of former respectnbluty. but the old stuccoed dwellings The remainder ROCS 10 the But all this is Soon to po where
on the north side of the Square
the changed, and it was to get a be, took a drubbing which has new residence is to pholograph, before It was too late, of this doomed than elegant. In the moonlight
them loft
looking more noblo museum piece, this cobwebbed clunk of history, that I strolled a stark and silvery beauty le the other evening, they assumed there the other evening.
These horses are
Treasury.
Cattle are retnined at the mental stud to keep down the grass to the length and sweetness ap preelated by racehorses.
It has been worked out that eight bullocks wil maintain in good order the pasturage re- quired by one horse.
Paddocks are also cleaned each day to keep away parasites, this task calling for the use of shovel and cart.
He's the only Formationalised
Colonel Hall
Lord
Waver-
tree, who pre- sented the stud to the nation
take
industry that
in 1915.
But
Big away Game and the stud would be just another State en- terprise losing taxpayers' money.
PAYS
For
Mecklenburgh
Square,
II and now
the skeleton of some primeval brontosaurus that had ded where it stood sooner than ad- mit defeat.
Conveyor Belt
poor and faded though it is, bas been picked as the transforma- tion scene in astor already told by newspapers and radio all over the world. It is here,
Meanwhile. Coram's Field, now through their National Thanks-
that the children and their that the people school have gone to the country. giving Fund, of the United Kingdom plan to The cattle con-express their gratitude for food scheme to weld all this part of ripe for inclusion k 2 tribute 15 tons gifts to the great Dominiour of London of beef a week the Commonwealth. fo the
to the
national United States
Jarder.
ters at this
Living: quar-
equine mater-
anks
aro
into cha collédiste overseas of America, and whole for home and to the scattered communities of the Colonial Empire.
Sacrifices
students.
There is every reason to-be- lieve that the £2,000,000 target figure for the National Thanks- giving Fund will be exceeded “been" well ̄ ̄ ̄said that within a measurable time, and the countions sacrifices of or- while much of,
the
money may, dinary men and women over be concentrated on this corner
nity-homo-archas
In keeping with
its
status rar
as the only na-
send us food parcels of the Metropolls, it is worth tionalised under sens to
during and since World War 11 noting that other cities Encl taking that pays can never
be repaid. As the towns of Britain, in their cager- Foaling boxes Prime Minister, Mr Attlee, put ness to show gratitude to our
brick build-
Fund's inauguralion; overseas friends, are clamouring
In
Insta at a cost
at the
of thousands "Our friends, recognising that for opportunities of local TE-
us."
sent practical
of pounds are equipped with conditions over here were hard, cognition. fluorescent lighting that pregnant spontaneously
These may or may not be mares find soothing. There is tokens of their fellow-feeling for
feasible, of least In the early also a subdued night light.
stages. What is certain is that As the lime approaches when This industry that can be
"But now there is a universal contributions are rolling in 10 a mare is about, lo present the wish Two Thousand Guinens in They have said that more nation
that these kindnesses, the led but never driven is to be 1912, and at Gillingham I of the profits should be attendants live in the stables war was
Lord Major of Londori with 0 fool, three reaching us when the tide of from every point of the com- expanded. More stallions-
sweeping over our pass. For the Arst time, too, are being acquired for duty found him monarch of a 400 spent on additional stallions, with her.
heads, should be ackriowledged, post
uffices all over Britain at an additional stud at acre domain.
These, say the critles of the Adjoining the foaling box is though they cannot be repaid, are participating in a national Every post ollice West Grinstead, Sussex.
by the personal gifts of people collection. National Stud, should be the attendants" "sitting up" Mr Peter Burrell, whose available
in all walks of life, all sparing counter is a conveyor belt tor furnished with racehorse room,
what they can towards à tan- gratitude,
to
casy
Fee for Big Game's £1,000-a-year snlary is owners at fees below 250 chairs in delicate pastel shades. services is 250 guincas a something Big Game could guinens. time, half what a privately sniff at, runs the stud with owned slud would charge a staff of 23.
for the services of a stallion In theory, any racehorse of Big Game's reputation. owner is entitled to
Racehorse
owners have for years been in the queue
anxious to mate their
mares
with Big Game,
ench yearlings.
"by GWYN
LEWIS
Mr Burrell These have
the more
London Home For £125
Mr Burrell replied: "We are negotinting. for three
teleone stands on a table stallions. Best of for use if compilention nrise during the birth. Overhead is these will be an Italian a bedroom for attendants not named Tanerani, who beat on duty. Another room attached Black Turquia and Arbar. to cach foaling box is equipped Wo milk bottles tell part of
fer veterinary work.
the story nn average
in of pictured
a Bloomsbury London £20,000 a year to maintain the Square.
University student Gerald Hali bought it Profts were rare and losses at Aldershot last year for £120.
It costs
"Tenerani has been leased to us for three years, and stud.
of
this bus,
the picture was transformed made it their home. At week- when Myrobella, daughter of fends they drive it into the the famed Telratema, gave birth country.
for foals sired by him have breeding services of our n-Stud now being prepared at sturl under nationalisation, but Peggy (also in the picture) have will stand at the National high in the early years of the Now Hall and his wife consistently been fetching. tionalised horse. In fact,
West Grinstead, not less than 3,000 guineas of the hundreds who apply when auctio.ed as each year for Big Game
"The "nominationis," only 15 ure
other two stal at the stud to a colt sired by the will
Hall,
1s 35,
studying lucky in the annual ballot lions
probably
winner Bahram. be triple-crown
a Government philosophy on of That colt Big Game.
was Big Game-now eleven held to determine which bought. Fees for one
these may be as low as 90 me at the Whitehall end of the
Secret of success
was given Erant.
He has put on a stone in and in his prime--18 mares can be accepted.
Big Game receives visits guineas."
enterprise by a Ministry of weight since they moved into estimated to be worth £100,-
40 mures,
Agriculture oficial, who catd: the bus. 000, which isn't hay, though each year from
Instuc, the bus. is painted 25 of them aro The Gillingham stud, men at the stud.”
"We leave everything to the. he manages pretty well on but
cream, fitted with two bunks specially selected animals. though largely dedicated to
In upholstered
Mrs just that.
green. answer to the French The told me: one horse, has also 25 brood challenge
Hall has mado flower print bo may one day
curtains. Ho headed the list of sirey qualities that we do not and 300 head of cattle.
such high marea, 18 yearlings, 13 foals, found at the National Stud. Lockers have been built below
Mr Burreli snid: "It will bo of race-winning sons and consider it would be wise to
Flow. This country has for 350 the bunka, and above in what daughters in 1948, when the subject them to the hazards
years concentrated on breeding Were luggage racks. The Sun Charlot became a for speed until the point was
heated by an anthracite slove National Stud's prolits for of the ballot."
staying power with detachable matron at the stud after reached when
chimacy, that year
Mrs Hall, or her busband amounted to
sacrificed over
small £50,000..
Mares drawn from the winning the One Thousand and
distances exceeding one and a brunelle, cooks Oaks, ballot also have to conform Guineus,
and St quarter miles.
This on a portable gas-stove. "Out
Out of 7,000
foals bom and the sink beside it are hidden Big Game's progeny have to high standards of breed. Leger. She is the most
of the mares in Britain every year not more when not in use. Above them falls there are emergency gas
by Inoleum-covered sl:olves won more than 60 rncus: ing laid down by a commit celebrated
than 400 are brod to stay
are the kitchen cupboards.
Jights. more than that distance. only four percent of all too.
Atted cupboards algo Water comes from two Jargo Racing authorities have
"The reverse has been the Other racehorses born over win a
the ense in, France. There, out of space for clothes and books. Hall fanks. The fiolls for baths ...complained that the Na slud, some sired by Big Game, 7,000 fools born, 1,000 have been works at a folding table hinged, sink: .race.
tional Stud is excessively some by outside stallions, are Big Game was put to stud concerned with profit-mak- either sold at the autumn sales bred to stay more than one and to the back of the bus. Main University Union.
at Nowmarket or given careers duties after winning the Ing.
there.
Yearlings born at
In racing.
bo
a balf miler."** tap
--={London Express servies)
33,
bus 13
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