FROM SHARKIE FAMILY

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1932, Page 10

FROM SHARKIE FAMILY

Among the little-known , candidates to iace at Levm on Saturday is Queen of the Urient, a five yea^ old maie who had one race as a three yeai old and her only other race to date at the Manaw atu Hunt Meeting last September Queen of the Onent belongs to the same blanch of the^Sharkie family as\produced the great Advance. She i B by Starstream (a son df^Autumnus) fiom Glencoe Lass, by GoJd Crest (son of Gold Reef) from Tied trf the Mast, by Mahaki (haltbrother by Ingomar to Stepmak) fiom Lorelei, th| half sister by Crmser to -Advance 4 This Lorelei <■ is the maie who raced W)th consideiable success for the late Mr J Cpllins, of Pahnerston North w inning among other events two successive Manawatu Cups The family has, not been so successful in the female line in recent sears as it was eirher, but it still has seveidl fairlj strongly surviving blanches. Queen of the Orient is owned by her breeder, Mr D J C McDonald, of Levin who trains her. She made no showing m hei race at Awapum, and judged by the investments on her was not expected to. She is in the hack seven at Levm