WINNING RIVAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 86, 8 October 1938, Page 26

WINNING RIVAL

ESTATE'S EARLY SUCCESS

The estate of the late Sir Charles Clifford was successful in securing a win on the first day that it had representatives racing. The success was gained by Winning Rival, who scored a meritorious victory in the McLean Stakes at Dunedin on Thursday and sO earned a classic bracket as well as a win. Winning Rival is the first of the Blandford sire Bulandshar's stock to succeed. She is a brown daughter of the Antagonist—Equipment mare Rivalry, the dam also of Umpire, Final Shot and Rival Hit . She was bred by the late Sir Charles, who sent a couple of mares to Bulandshar at Hastings when he was doing his first season in 1935. It is interesting to note *hat both Bulandshar and Ringmaster, ose P™*^' are __ «w «i the f scene this season, have had their first winne T r T ?.in. the^South Island, Winning Rival showed promise in er,ffi rst sPnnt 'during the late winter, and she was expected to test out Master Hotspur in the John Grigg Stakes, but slight soreness prevented her racng at Ashburton. She was not idle ong, and she subsequently gave every satisfaction iri her work. She is inclined to nervousness, but this is exected to be overcome with travelling and racing. She is due to do her next acing at the Wellington-Meeting.