BLOODSTOCK SALE Al TRENTHAM

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 149, 20 March 1939, Page 3

BLOODSTOCK SALE Al TRENTHAM

Top Price, 575 Guineas LANG BI AN FOR HAWKE’S BAY Before the sale of English and Irencij mares at Trentham on Saturday mW the auctioneers, M right, Stepneu. sou and Co., Ltd., announced that the. French-bred stallion, Lang Dian, to whom the mares had been mated in. England. Ld been sold to Mr. would shortly be shipped out to join Bui andshar at the Karumu Stud, near Hastings. Lang Bian is th ? Gold Cup winner, Massine, who in l<-36 beaded the list of French sires, and on the dam’s side, descends fl - on i La Fleche, the granddam of Beau Re-e. The top price for the imported mares was 575gns„ paid by Sir James; Gunson, Auckland, for the lelstead ’““re, I lo ** lege, whose dam is a halt-sister to Artist’s Proof, the winner of iiooi in , stakes. Another Aucklander to purchase was Mr. James Fletcher, who secured Medusa for 500gn.s. This mare was sired by the brilliant galloper Diomedes, and is from the notable Sunshine family. Her half-sister, Dark Fire, won the valuable Red Rose Stakes of £212-.. The Mai rarapa breeders. Messrs. A. and J. Gray. Masterton, bought Revinella for 4<ogns. She is closely descended from the English Oakg winner, Glass Doll, and is sired by Reveillon, a good horse by the 1937 champion sire of England in bolano. Tne French mare, Flying Star 11, realized 500gns„ being bought by Stephenson and Co., Ltd., as agents. Her sire, Salmon Leap, a first-class stayer, is a grandso* of The Tetrarch and she is very stoutly bred on the dam s side. Miss Pippin, whose granddam was a sister to the famous stayer, The M hite Knight, dual winner of the Ascot Gold Cup, was purchased for The Grange Stud by Mr. M Grogan, at 340gns. Her sire, Apple Sammy, was one of the leading sires of two-year-olds in England last year. These mures should give a valuable infusion of new blood to the Dominion s studs. The oldest of the mares, Stourbridge Fair, who will be represented in England by a two-year-old runner from Miss Dorothy Paget’s stable, failed to reach the reserve. She is a particularly handsome nuire by the Two Thousand Guineas winer, Ellangowan, and is from a noted winning line. Other sales were as follows: —

On account of Air. L. C. Hazlett, Salisbury:

Money to Burn, bay filly, 3yrs., by Paper Money—Alessrs. A. Davis and A. Selby, Alatamata .....IVO Bay filly, 3yrs’., by Paper Money—Air Valve —Air. Pearson, Otago ... 110 Chestnut filly, yearling, by Gustavo— AVater Power —Air. 1. 1. Hogan, Washdyke 60 Chestnut gelding, yearling, by Gus; t avo — Rabenna — Farmers ' Co-op. Organization Society, Ltd., Hawera Brown filly, yearling, by Gustavo— Firette —Air. A. Rowan, le Awamutu Chestnut filly, yearling, by Gustavo —Callbird—Mr. P. T. Hogau .. 30 Chestnut filly, yearling, by Gustavo —Fractora—Miss E. AfcKenzie, Wellington On account of Air. E. bimpson, Trentham. Degage, brown mare, _ ISyrs., by Kilbroney —Aliss De Aal Air. A. Rowan On account of Mr. R. W. A. Lewis, Auckland: Ticket, brown mare, 4yrs„ by f’ a P® r Money—Stage Fright, with filly foal by Croupier—Mr. A. B. K. Alossman, Otorobanga -W On account of Mr. AA'. Higgins, AVellington: Brown filly. 2yrs., by Safari—Delysia —Air. H. E. Edmunds, Palmerston North Phil. 3vrs.. by Philamor—.Toy Princes.*—Mr. A. Rosenbaum, AA elliugtou 30 On account of Mr. J. G. Alexander, Alaxwell: Golden Bride, ch. mare, 16yrs., by Bay d'Or—<Alr. AV. J. AlcGovern, Fordell Attar, bay mare, 13yrs., by Kilbroney —Alaritza —Air. H. E. Edmunds *lO King Cup. bay mare, 17yrs.. by xlmadis—Air. Bradshaw, AVellington 17 Pebble 11, bay mare, ISyrs.. by Rock Flint—Air. Campbell Smith ... 17 On account of Sir Thomas AA UTord, Herctaunga: Ugly Duckling, bay gelding, Syrs., by ‘Lord Qucx— Isoline—Air. A. Rowan