Second Day’s Yearlings

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 99, 21 January 1943, Page 6

Second Day’s Yearlings

(By This Watch eh. ) A parade of the yearlings to be sold at Trentham tomorrow will be held there at 2.30 p.m. today.- The special train for the sales will run again tomorrow, leaving Wellington at 9.10 a.m. Saturday',, Brackets. Tile following horses are bracketed on the card for the second day of the Wellington meeting on Saturday:—Trial Plate: Hongt and Spirit, Te Ngarara and Transcript. Nursery Handlean: First In and Hurry Home, Sir Neri ami (Marram. Lucky Number. Number (1 on the card bad a good run at Trentham on Saturday. There were eight runners carrying No. 6 saddle-cloth. It won the first race, ran third in the second, won the sixth and won the eighth. Win dividends totalled £35/7/-, and place £ 19/2/0. Beau Pere Blood. Mr. Eric Rlddiford, the president of the Wellington Racing Club, who raced extensively in partnership with his brother, the late Mr. V. Riddlford, will be among the vendors represented tn the National Yearling Sales. His entry is a highly bred chestnut colt by the successful Blandford stallion, Solicitor-General out of a threequarter sister to Belle Cane, who was the best of her sex when racing here. The dam of this colt Lady Drake was purchased at a high figure by Mr. Riddlford as a yearling, and was only lightly raced, and then put aside‘for breeding. After a year's rest‘she -produced the colt he is now offering for sale. Solicitor-General is the sire of sueh good winners as Clarice, Lord Advocate, etc., and the value of Beau Pere blood to New Zealand has been amply demonstrated. Half-brother To Sea Spl. The season's form of the two-year-old Sea Spl draws attention to her yearling half-brother which is to come up for sale at Trentham on Friday. This is 'lot 1.30, bred by Mr. It. .1. Harper and Miss E. D. Cornfoot, Feilding. Tie colt is by Golden Eagle, a son of Fairway, who unfortunately died after his first season in New Zealand. The dam, Itvlii g Spi, Is by Chief Ruler from die Imported mare Spionetta, an unraced daughter of Spearmint's son Sptou Kop, who also sired The Buzzard, one of Australia's loading sires of the .past few years. From this fariily also comes Cylinder, Catallnl, I’aleta, Catalogue and ttiis year's crack Australian juvenile Maemen to. Battle Song Yearlings. The attention of breeders Is drawn to the imported Carbine line stallion, Battle Song, whose stock created sueh a favourable Impression or, the opening day of the National Sales held last Friday. when the four colts by him catalogued modi' an average of (ISO guineas. The blood of Musket, which he represents in male line, has been responsible for the stoutest and best horses bred in New Zealand and Australia, but for some years it. lias been lost sight of chiefly due to the exportation of Carbine Io England. Recently in Australia a great revival has taken place due to the importation of the Carbine lino stallions, Spearhead. The Buzzard, Double Remove and Felcrag. anil Battle Song looks like doing the same here. Ho is not only one of the best bred horses who lias come this way, but was a first-class staying racehorse who, after classic performances on the Irish and English turf, left it as sound as a bell to come to New Zealand. Battle Song has had two full seasons in 1911 and 1942. .Subscriptions are now being taken for the coming one. and his list is filling very rapidly. Since last Friday's sale no fewer than 14 mares have been booked, and this is the result of the great Impression created by his yearlings, who sold better than any others in the first (lav's sale. Battle Snug will stand at the Inglewood Stud. 11 miles from Cliristcliurcbi and North Island marcs being shipped from Wellington will arrive al the stud the next afternoon. Egiuonl Nominations. Nominations for the Egmont. Raeitig Clnb's summer mooting, on February D. close tomorrow at 9 p.m. Woodville lit Woodville. The Woodville Jockey Club will hold Ils meeting on its own course on February 20. The track is even now in good order, and bv the time <4 the meeting will loin first-class condition. The Public Works Department is busllv engaged in putting huildings and grounds in order, so by the time of the meeting there should be no cause for complaint from either owners and trainers or the gale patrons. Answers io Correspondents. "Ellozif," Wellington: If the horse was scratched after the wager was taken you are not on except on the day ol the race. -M.D.." Walkauae; £S/»/ti; £3/l/«. -Interested." Blenheim: Scratching times on Saturday were: Kinsman, 11.19 a.m.; Tutere, 4.20 p.m