BLOOD LINES OF KONNETA

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 22

BLOOD LINES OF KONNETA

Konneta, for whom a big offer was refused on Monday, is by Bulandshar from '"'iiny Hours, by Leighton from Los 'S, by Boniform from La Valiere. ..,.;e is a half-sister to Karl and Sergia. La Valiere is a sister to that great three-year-old Nonette, and produced among others Los Angelos, who won the Great Autumn Handicap, one mile and a half, and other good races at Riccarton. Sunny Hours, who never raced, is a half-sister to Passion Fruit, Passion Flower, and Fluency, the lastnamed being the dam of Friesland.

Konnetta was bred at the Karamu Stud, Hastings, and was purchased by Mr. M. Steinberg at the yearling sales at Trentham last January for 290 guineas. She was placed in R. S. Bagby's stable at Ellerslie, who has prepared her for all her races. She had her first start in the Welcome Stakes at Ellerslie last October, when she ran second to Anopheles, with her stable companion High Caste in third place. Her next effort was in the Wellesley Stakes at Trentham when she finished second to Beaulivre, beating Anopheles for that position by half a head. She was not produced again till Monday, when she won the Rakino Handicap from end to end. \

Mr. Steinberg has been racing horses in Auckland for some time past. He owns Fidelis, a full-brother to the Melbourne Cup a inner Catalogue, and Elanage. Fidelis won his first race at the last Avondale Meeting, and Elanage, who is in J. Fryer's stable inj Melbourne, has performed well there.) Formerly Elanage was in Bagby*s| stable, where Fidelis is also trained. '