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John Bourne to train $105,000 Three Legs filly

By

J. J. BOYLE

A Three Legs filly knocked down for $105,000 on the second day of the national sales at Trentham last week will be raced from the Riccarton stable of z John Bourne.

Purchaser of the grey granddaughter of the Waikato Gold Cup winner, Our Grace, was Mr Cyril Smith, of Christchurch, who races Donizetti from the Bourne stable. The Three Legs filly was offered on account of Mr and Mrs Eric Pinker, owners also of the highclass filly, Eastern Joy. Gracie, dam of Mr Smith’s Three Legs filly, was got by Pakistan II from Our Grace and won two races. A distinguished representative of this family back in the 1960 s was Empyreus, winner of 16 races from six furlongs to a mile and three-quar-ters. He won both the New

Zealand and Great Northern St Legers, also a Canterbury Gold Cup and a George Adams Handicap at Trentham. Mr Smith also bought two colts on the opening day of the Trentham sales, a son of Noble Bijou and Loose Metal for $22,000 and a grey by Harbor Prince from Sovereign Rose for $22,500. For the Noble Bijou colt it was a return to the province of his birth. He was bred at the Rutherford-owned Beltana Stud at Parnassus. His dam, the Alcimedes mare Loose Metal, won four races from the stable of the late Jim Tomkinson. This is the distinguished

family of Kia Maia, the winner of 10 races, including Auckland and Waikato cups; Kia Marea, whose 11 wins included an Easter Handicap at Ellerslie; Herminia, the winner of a Brisbane Cup and V.R.C. St Leger; and Gelsomino, the winner of five, including the Flight Stakes in Sydney. The Harbor Prince Sovereign Rose colt bought by Mr Smith, is a fourth generation descendant of Eileen Douglas, whose half-sister Zenith distinguished herself as a race performer, left another “smasher” in Passive, which in turn left the big winner and successful sire Sobig.

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Press, 30 January 1986, Page 26

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John Bourne to train $105,000 Three Legs filly Press, 30 January 1986, Page 26

John Bourne to train $105,000 Three Legs filly Press, 30 January 1986, Page 26

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