TAURAMAI AND OWNER

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 90, 13 October 1934, Page 23

TAURAMAI AND OWNER

Mr. A. C. Mills, the owner of the Dunedin Guineas winner Tauramai, is a bank manager at Otautau, and he" is a very enthusiastic racing man, being interested in the sport both as an owner and a breeder. Among his ambitions is to own a New Zealand Cup winner, and he has two likely sorts of stayers still in this year's race, Tauramai and the seven-year-old Totolomai. .

Vrior to coming into Mr. Mills's possession the brood mare Fairform had produced two useful performers in Some Form and Rin Tin Tin. Her third progeny was Ckarmaine, ■who won a' number of races for Mr. Mills, and since then have come 'Fair-wood, who raced unsuccessfully as a three-year-old, Vavemai, who had a single start as a two-year-old, and now Tauramai. . The four horses last named are all- owned by Mr. Mills, but Fairwood and Vavemai do not appear to have stood up to training. Fairform has no two-year-old representative, but she has a yearling filly to British Empire who has been named Faerie Queene. Fairform -was bred by Mr. I. G. Duncan in 1919 and she was never raced. She is a bay mare by Boiuform from Satisfaire, by Birkenhead from Content, by Dreadnought from Lullaby, by Apremont, and her family has been successfully represented on the Turf for many years. Satisfaire. was the dam also of Satisfaction (dam' of Wheriko and grahdam of Blix ten), Kilfaire (Masterton Cup, etc.) and Bonny Doreen (Great Northern Oaks) and she was as well a half-sister to Ohakwana (a winner of over £3500 in stakes), La Paix (dam-of the Australian Auto Pay), and Success (dam of the ix.iN. Derby winner Kilwinning and- of Foreign Queen's dam Megan), so that there is much to suggest classic ability m lauramai's pedigree. ' .