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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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