TE HERO'S PROGRESS
The Tc Aw am ut u owned Te Hero (by the Australian champion. Her. oie) who is now in Sydney, is fast moulding into racing shape, and is expected to carry racing colours at the Australian .big meetings in September. The trouble with t\iis high grade and extremely brilliant colt last season was his erratic behaviour jrtt the starting barrier. Apparently he is not an advocate of the Hat, footed so registered his protests by objecting to gallop unless allowed a moving send off. A GREAT THOROUGHBRED LINE One of England's famous horses, Tetratema (son of tha.t country's champion grey The Tetrarch) who died recently, won during his tuif career l £21,728. In recent years his stud fee has been 400 guineas. This great line is represented in, New Zealand by Mr Donnellv's (Hawke*s Bay) grejr sire Tho.io, whose progeny may in due course make turf history in this Doinin'on. Two decades a,go Hawke's Bay ranked pre-eminent in respect to hi r .'h thoroughbred.:! in New Zealand, and in more recent years Lord O'lev Sieg. fried, Gascon v. and Pom. bal representative. h?" T o been "victorious in imnoH-t "v«nts. Now with Lord Quex. TW-n/v- Bulandshar, Gasmony. Si^ rff H~rl. Bleu and The ! o ft th' l cn-v'"" of brooders it ' v ould not if t'iat pro. '•'ion n 'fji +l>n loa'lir>£f poSl- ' «■»* v-r " ■" .• >thnr por- " -~-t th- " ' of number % 1 ! fv'n'nn. thor_ •i<*hVcds here mentioned.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 44, 2 August 1939, Page 7
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239TE HERO'S PROGRESS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 44, 2 August 1939, Page 7
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