DIVOTS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 210, 21 September 1937, Page 11

DIVOTS

Dug by "Tbe Delver. ' ' Mr. V. E. H. Davis, veterinary surgeoU, says tbe Sydney Herald, bas blistered Mr. E. J. Watt's Limond borse Egiuoni; on tbe near foreleg. Wben entries ciosed for tbe Australian Jockey Club's spring meeting, Egmont's name was not ineluded for any of tbe minor events. The cbance of bis being ready to race at tbe Melbourne Cup fixture is remdte % » 4 B. A. DodsOn, wbo reeently eoncluded bis apprenticesbip to S. R, Laniond, junr., is (says tbe Sydney

Beferee) going to New Zealand, under engagement te H. Tolford. Dodson bas ridden winners in Sydney, and, capjable of going to scale at a little over 7st., i? strong at tbat weight. « # •* Tbe arrival of tbree more foals at tbe Koatanui Stud, Wanganui, is reported, and tbese bring tbe total number of colts Sinee tbe commencement of tbe current season up to eight, witb only one filly so far in tbe crop. Tbe latest colts are all bays, one being by Bingmaster from tbe imported mare Mislaid, a balf-sister to Parquet. Tbe two Posterity colts are out of Curtain (Smoke Soreen's dam) and Mirabelle H. (dam otf Theo). « # e B'ace Boy, a dual winner at tbe reeent combined bunt meeting at New PJymoutb, is a fire-year-old gelding by Baceful from Cochineal, by All Bed from Peorneal, by Aebilles from Prelude, daughter pf Merrie England. He tberefore comes from a noted speedy famOy. Bace Boy is trained by G. A. Heid at 'Waverley, by wbom be is field on lease from tbe trustees of tbr late Mr E. Parsons, wbo bred tbe gelding. # * # Tbe Palmerston Nortb sportsman, Mr. L. H. Gollinson, hiad tbe misfortune to lose Finnesko last week, tbe five-year-old son of Defoe and Snowsboe breaking a leg wben be bit wire in a gorse double. Finnesko b&d sbown mUch promise as be jumped and during tbe winter he bad been qualified with tbe Manawatu Hunt. His style as a burdler was not unlike tbat of Diamond and be was a brilliant feneer. Witb plenty of paee on tbe flat tbe future as a burdler looked brigbt for him. # * e T&itoru, winner of tbe principal flat handicap event at. Wanganui last week and also immediately prior to that of half-a-scofe races in as many months, dia not m&nage to get bis nose in front at tbe finish of a raee until be was in .bis fourtb year. He bas a rather interesting pedigree that sboWS how some of tbe oldest strains in tbe Stud Book bave bred on since tbe earliest days of raeing in New Zealand. He was got by Sandstar from Campbird, by Oanipiire (son of Carbine) from Wbioi, by Patronus — Grassmere, by Haere son Of Malua) by Bafbarina, by Barbarian — Molly Dod, by Golden Grape — Sally Brass, by Sir Hercules — -V esta, by Lucifer. Vesta was a mare bred in Tasmania in 1845. Sandstar, tbe sire of Taitoru, was got by Sands of tbe Orient from Mary Heaton, by Brigbt Steel — Mary Beaton, by Positano — St. Elyn, by St. Leger — Lacly Eveiyn, by Perkin Warbeck from Pulchra tbe ancestress of many fine performers, among tbem Multiform and Crueiform. * «■ * Black Mac, following bis remarkable performanee to wm the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield, says a Sydney writef, advanced to farouritism for tbe Melbourne Cup. Black . Mac thoroughly deserves bis position as Melbourne Cup favourite. Many great hofses bave won tbe Memsie Stakes, but not one Of tbem bas given a better performanee tban Black Mac, and more to tbe point is tbe fact that in the Melbourne Cup Black Mac is handicapped at 101b. less than weight-for-age. Not until a year ago did Black Mae win bis first race, a Maiden Handicap at Moonee Valley. Yet be joined such distinguisbed borses as Pbar Ltap, Eurythmic, Heroie, Gothic and Hall Mark as tbe winner of a Memsie Stakes. Black Mac gave a performanee wortby of any of these borses. He was tailed off at tbe six furlongs post, but he bad tbe race won a furlong from home, and went on to score by two lengths..