THE LAST OF PARASANG

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 33, 7 August 1936, Page 13

THE LAST OF PARASANG

Parasang, who had to be destroyed after breaking a leg in a school at Riccarton yesterday morning, was considered in the Southland district to be a Grand National horse in the makings when he was winning aver countryTn the far south during the early autumn, but after he had separated Umtali and Royal Limond in the Great Western Steeples at Riverton at Easter his form never improved and he had run unplaced in seven subsequent starts. Parasang. who was owned by Messrs J. S. and W. E. Hazlett, of Invercargill had just turned ten years old, but he did not make his first pub.lie appearance till he was a late seven-year-old. As an eightryear-old he won twice and as a nine-year-old in the past season he won four times, including the Lawford Steeples at last year's Christchurch Hunt Meeting. He was by Tractor from the Solferino—Ruenalf's Daughter mare Ruena, a full-sister to Taboo and he therefore was well enough bred to be a good horse under winter conditions. However, his form in two starts at the recent Wellington Meeting was very poor and his prospects for the National Meeting did not look at all hopeful.