OVERSEAS NOTES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 186, 24 August 1937, Page 11

OVERSEAS NOTES

This year, Solario and Bahram were the only sires in England at tfie stud at a fee of 500 guineas. The five at 400 guineas were Windsor Lad, Fairway, Tetratema, Gainsborough and Hyperion. ir * Diplomat (Stratford — Honor Bright) • who is rated the best three-year-old sprinter in England, is owned by Mr. Malcolm M' Alpine, who is . only 19 years of age. Diplomat was bought as a yearling for 2400gns. by Sir Malcolm M' Alpine, who presented him to his son. Up to the close of the Ascot j meeting Diplomat had won eight of the 12 races in which he had started, and earned £3913 — a useful present. # * # Santa Anita is not to have a monopoly pf 1.00,000 dollar races in AmeUca. The Eastern Bacing Association (Massachusetts) has annonced that next year the Massachusetts Handieap (now 50,000 dollars) will earry that amount. A new track in Florida is also to have a handieap of 100,000 dollars. An owner has only to be lueky enough to win one of America's big handicaps and he will be set up for a long time. * * # It is stated that Mr. E. J. Watt's inability to retnrn to Australia for the Bandwick spring meeting was mainly responsible for the scratching of Egmpnt from the A.J.C. Metropolitan Handieap, bnt Egmont is likely to be given, the opportunity of winning a handieap worth less than the £1000 first money which permits of a horse being rehandicapped for the Melbourne Cup, in which he has 151b. under weight-for-ago. * * * Once again the Aga. Khan appears to possess England 'a best two-year-old so far seen out, as Mirza's H.'s success in the Coventry Stakes confirmed his earlier form. Crities, however, are wondering whether the stamina of his sire, Blenheim, or the brilliance of his dam, Mumtaz Mahal, will come out on top. Mirza H., accord to ' 'Bayardo'' in Reynold's News, seemed to have had enough by the time the post was reached, but, as he made all his own running, it was not surprising that Ascot's uphill finish — almost the stiffest in the country — tested him.