NEW STALLION

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 197, 18 May 1944, Page 7

NEW STALLION

Lo Zingaro Acquired

For Southland

(By

St. Simon.)

The buyer of the English-bred stallion Lo Zingaro for lOaOgns. at the Underbank dispersal sale was operating on belialt ot Mr. Alex Chisholm, Otautau. The horse was due to arrive this week, and will be associated with Salmagundi at the Otautau Stud, where many first-class winners have ‘been bred by Mr. Chisholm. Lo Zingaro Is a chestnut horse and was foaled in England in 1931. In the colours of Mr. J. A. Dewar he won at two years the Newmarket Exeter Stakes* and the Goodwood Prince of Wales Stakes. At three years he won the Llngfleld Leigh Memorial, one mile, the Hyperion Stakes, one mile and a half at Hurst Park, the Derby Breeders St. Leger, one mile and a half, was second in the Jockey Club Stakes, one mile and three-quarteis, to Uniidar, uud third in tne St. Leger Stakes to Windsor Lad and Tiberius. Lo Zingaro’s dam, Love in Idleness, was the best filly of her year in England and won the Oaks Stakes, the - Yorkshire Oaks and other races worth £12,561. She la the dam ot Gay Lothario, one of the most successful stallions In Australia In recent years. Love In Idleness was by Bachelor's Double, winner or £lO.OOO, sire of the winners of more than £l'o,ooo and eire of the dams of winners of nearly £200,000. Lo Zingaro Is the sire of several winners In Australia and t°d‘ a > among them Esperanto, winner of the Caulfield Debutant Stakes and the December. Stakes at Kandwick. Good Reputation. ~ R. Wilson has received from Mr. J. m. Grigg the four-year-old gelding Test Pilot, by Skv Pilot—Eairness, by ThurnPlay, by Calibre from Like many horses from Longbeaeh, he nau ■some jumping education before he was sent to Riccarton, and he has the reputation of being very good. His sire, a Stonyhurst-bred horse by Day Comet, was a smart steeplechaser, while there is jumping blood on the other side. Justice was a capable performer over country and later was the dam of Chivalry, a good class sprinter, also of Playfair who was taken to England early in this century and won many steeplechases there.

English Classics. t-„„i„„,i The classic racing season in England opens this week with the running of the One Thousand Guineas and Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket. The Oaks Stakes and Derby Stakes will be run in the middle of June.

Meeting Abandoned. , The stewards of the Waimate Lacing Club have-decided not to proceed with preparations for their meeting scheduled for July 22, and the date has been abandoned. Trainers Licensed. . At a meeting yesterday of the Racing Conference executive sub-committee trainers’ licences were granted to E. R. Poster, Pukekohe, and I. Tinsley, Greenmeadows. Foster has been off the scene for about four years, due to an accident in a.nuralt race. Tinsley was responsible for the early education and training ot _ l^intler^ n l rt ®°' Some time ago he settled at Greenmeadows, and he has Royal Heir now under bis care. Back From the War. The Hawke's Bay amateur horseman, G. G. Beatson, who is returning from service In the Pacific area, has been granted an amateur rider’s certificate for the current season.

Permission to Ride. G. Elliott, formerly engaged in the South Island, and now an employee of H. Telford at 'Trentham, has been granted a jockey’s licence.

Pulled Up .. . The well-performed Conflagration pullea up lame after the running of the Walmata Hurdles at Te Atoha on Saturday, and it looks as though it will be difficult to keep him going throughout the winter. Northland Sun broke down in the same rack and will neeij a lengthy spell. IJable to Relinmjlcap. . Arable, Malacca and Anglo-Irish, acceptors for the steeplechase at Woodville bn Saturday, are engaged also in the Great Northern Steeplechase. The winner at Woodville is liable to rehandicap for Auckland. though it la extremely unlikely, owing to the moderate class engaged, that any additional weight would be imposed. JU Am’ Auckland writer states that the first time Bronze Night jumps well he will take a power of beating in a hurdle race. At Te Aroha he lost a lot of ground at every fence .through jumping slowly, but then finished fourth.

One the Difference. L. J. Clutterbuck’s win on Lady Spiral at Otakl brought his season's total to 31, and he is now only one point behind Broughton, who failed to win a race at the same meeting. Wiggins, the other leading horseman, did not ride at T® Aroha, but will be in the saddle again at the TNalkato meeting this week.

Should Make the Grade. The Hastings-trained hack Royal Greek is to piake his debut in the open grade at Waikato this week, being an acceptor for the Stewards’ Handicap, in which he la weighted 21b. abov,e the minimum.. He ran out of hacks at Napier recently with a first-class performance, carrying 9.9 ami winning with an Impressive run In his last 13 starts he was six times first and four times placed, and he appealed as a hors? likely to maintain his winning run in the higher grade. Royal Greek is a solid horse well up to weight and tisnt at home in soft going, thus possessing the necessary qualifications for a successful winter performer.

Answers to Inquiries. r.-tn/ “Doubtful,” Palmerston North: £T/T/an “Cixrious,” Foxton: Royal Greek’s only Start on the second day at Napier was iu the Kaiti Hack Handicap, which be won Ca 'X yl V.§.,” 9 Wellington: (1) £3/7/- and £l/8/-. (2) £l/18/-. (3) £l/11/6. (f £2/3/0 and £l/6/6. (5) £3/16/- aud £1 11/0.