GOLD NIB ACQUIRED FOR ALTON LODGE

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 239, 6 July 1944, Page 7

GOLD NIB ACQUIRED FOR ALTON LODGE

Related To Foxbridge

Now awiilling shipment to the Dominion is the live-.veai-olil liny horse Gold Nib, who is to join Bulloch at Hie Alton Lodge Stud, Te Kuuwhata. where the lialfbrotlicr to Air. Standfast and Beau I’ece is now represented by lii« llrst crop of yearlings. Like .Bnlloeii, the new sire bouglit by Jiessrs. .lames ami .1. C. Flelelier claims breeding of the highest merit, for lie is by Dust nr. an Irish Classic winner who whs second in all three of the English Classics. Dastur. who is :i halfbrotlier to the Triple- Crown winner Bahram, is having an excellent season on Ihe English turf tills term. Gold Nib is the second foal of Ills dam and was her second winner. This < mare. Gold llaee, is by I’halaris's son, Colorado, who defeated Coronach for the , Two Thousand Guineas and won .£30,303 in stakes, but unfortunately died after eniy two seasons at tile stud.

The second dam, Cresta Bun, was a brilliant two-year-old winner, and went on to win tile One Thousand Guineas from Booklaw by two lengths, and all told won £l-1,540 in stakes. She is a half-sister by Hurry On to the New Zealand champion sire, Foxbridge, the next dam being Bridgemount, by Bridge ot Earn from .Mountain Mint, by Carbine’s Derby winning son. Spearmint, and from Adula. sister to that great raee mare, Pretty Polly, tlie Oaks and St. Leger winner, etc.

A'lirirt from his elassie breeding, Gold Nib lias great credentials as n racehorse, He was a bril limit two-year-old, even then distinguished among those of bis age for his outstanding pliysiuuc, as u threc-yesr-old-hc was one of the best of his year, and he showed his slaying qualities the following year in beating horses of the highest calibre. Gold Nib won twice and wae five times placed as a twu-year-idd. and was only three times out of a place ill 10 starts as a tlirec-year-old. including third la the Two Thousand Guineas to Big Game and AVatling Street. At four years lie won the Salisbury Stakes, one mile and a quarter, beating Ujiji. Gold Nlli was purchased through the ageney of Wright, Stephenson mid’Co., Ltd.