LEGISLATION AND HORSE-RACING

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 155, 27 March 1939, Page 10

LEGISLATION AND HORSE-RACING

Sir Joseph Robinson’s Interests A member of the Souiii African Parliament and a noted racehorse owner in the Union, Sir .Joseph Itobinson, Cape Town, arrived at Wellington with Lady Robinson by the Dominion Monarch on Saturday. lie said Hint he was particularly interested in New Zealand bloodstock, and proposed lo look ai some thoroughbred yearlings (luring his slay in Ihe Dominion, In the past he had imported eight New Zealand racehorses into Ihe Union of South Africa, and though they had not been very successful lie admired lltein for their stamina. Of the eight, two were failures, but the others were good average horses. .He had two good three-year-olds from New Zealand at present, named respectively Ariki and Tohunga. He previously purchased as a yearling a lialfbrolher lo Ihe well-known New Zealand two-year-old Beau Vite, and also Ihe two-year-old Brabant, now racing will, some success in South Africa. Sir .Joseph said that New Zealand horses adapted themselves fairly well to South African conditions —better indeed than Australian horses, which might Imve been expected to accustom themselves quickly lo conditions more closely approximating to lheir own. Bnl Hie New Zealand beasts were hardier, because of Hie good grass and hard climate lo which they were bred.

Sir Joseph has been M.P. for Wynberg. Cape Colony, since 1933. He has made several previous trips to New Zealand, and this tian, intends spending about eight days in the country, sailing from Auckland for the Pacific Islands and America.

Captain the lion. Arthur Oswald Hope. Conservative members in the House of Commons for the Aston Division of Birmingham, and Treasurer of His Majesty’s Household, has been appointed Governor of Madras.