OFFICIALLY "ABSENT"

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1932, Page 19

OFFICIALLY "ABSENT"

ENGLISH RACING POSER

After Heartbreak Hill.had won the Urand Sefton Steeplechase, at, Aintree on J3tn November, it was revealed in the: ■ Daily Mail" that the mare was officially not'in'England at all,^ but in "America. It ,was suggested that an objection 'might le lodged on behaK *f, Mr; J.:H; Whitney, .the owner of the^second; horsei'Sir- Lindsay; but this-.'doeg not appear ti.Have bieen done..-■■', -. . ; , ;

i The "General Stud Book," . the official record, showed that the riiare Little Sweetheart had'a filly foal'Ky Don Juan in 1925. This ,foal was registered as-'-Heart-' bjeali? Hill, and a note was added in. the official record that she went to- America; in -J928. As.; far as;the 'registry" office: is concerned,; she; is still ; there,; though actu-,a!'y-'was- never but qf'lrieland i'until'she f crossed,the.;lrish Sea- to contest the race' 'she.' won at.'Airitreei..'.•.' •-."'...'.-\ '•

T»f^Vi T -3 :<&- .feYM'TtJjerjrrjs^ragent'.lpr: Mrs^C. S.; Bjrd, jun.> the^ Ameriqari owner of Hcartbreat Hill; relates' Kbw the error arose in the "Stud Book": i*' When' Mrs. Bird'bougbt>lhe nlarfe in '1928," Be1 said ■•.ane intended to send her uto America, put-after'the-;necessary:^formalities had been completed she changed heir mindpand {Heartbreak. Hill: remained .ih'i Ireland' Perhaps X■■ should- have informed Messrs of the Jockey Uub). atxhe'time, but I am sure that the entry will be corrected in the next edition of the'Stud-Book.'-"' ■■'■-. .