THE WAIKANAE YEARLINGS.
At 2.30 p.m. on Friday, January 23, the annual sale of AVaikanae yearlings will tako place. It is claimed for the fourteen youngsters who comprise this year's draft that they are tho finest lot yet offered in Wellington. Last season in New Zealand, Achilles's two-year-olds won more in stake money than the progeny of any other sire, with tho solitary exception of Soult. Although the yearlings sold from this stud in January, 1912, realised 2500 guineas, they won as two-year-olds more in stakes than their total purchase money. This season, which is only half over, the progeny of the stud have won over £4000, and of this amonnt tho two-year-olds have. won just half. There aro some very lino youngsters to bo sold, and the breeder, Mr. Lan Duncan, anticipates a very successful sale.
"Equinoint" is the headline of-an-ad-vertisement" appearing in this issue which should be read by all horseowners. This preparation has already made its mark in New Zealand, and, it is claimed, much more will be heard uf its wonderful curative properties in various horso complaints. Since its introduction to tho Dominion Ecjuinoint has, it iu stated, cured many lej; troubles in horses, and its efficacy has Ijoen highly spoken, of. Messrs. Young and Collins, Ltd., Wangaiiiii, the well-known racing gear special-' ists, are sole Dominion apont?, and the preparation can be procured from saddlers everywhere. ...
. A story is told of a log-roller who, while .working on a log'drive, fell into tlio water. Ho struggled for a while, and at last, dizzy and nearly -exhausted, managed to grasp a big log'and hang on to it... Tho current was fo strong and swift thai, it carried his body under (he lug, until his feet stuck out on the other side. Just as a. comrade srasped him by the shoulders ho caught sisht , of hi* own feet profrtidine on lh>: nthrr .<id" of the In-r. ."1 ,ci:n .hold 'nil.; a hit lonser!" he unsped. "Save Ihe chap that's in head first, if you cas/'-
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1959, 16 January 1914, Page 4
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337THE WAIKANAE YEARLINGS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1959, 16 January 1914, Page 4
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