PAID HIS WAY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 42, 18 January 1938, Page 10

PAID HIS WAY.

LUCKY OWNER’S HORSE. EARLY STAKE WINNER. (By “Spectator.”) In nine starts for his new owner, Mr W. Devon, Lucullus Lad has won three times and been five times placed. Since being purchased from the Twist Estate for 500 guineas ho has won £BSO. Lucullus Lad, who was engaged in the Wellington Cup to-day, is a good beginner and free goer, who runs his best races in front.. Although he is quite at home on firm tracks, he is typical of the Lucullus breed and handles winter conditions well. Several good judges would like to acquire him with a hurdle racing campaign in view, but there is little chance of his departing from his present owner. Seeking Cup Again. Lagoon is making steady improvement, and is likely to take her place in the Goldfields Cup at Thames. This marc has previously been successful on the Thames course, where she won the Cup two years ago. Useful Jumper Retired. Prince of Orange ran his last race at the recent meeting at Ellcrslic, as Air R. T. Reid *has decided to retire the Valkyrian gelding. He was a useful jumper, with the Great Northern Hurdles among his sucesscs. May Be Sold. Sir Charles Clifford has put a price on Nightdress, and it is expected that the Nightmarcii—Ball Dress thrcc-year-old will find a new owner very soon. It is probable, if he. is sold, that he will continue in one of the Riccarton stables.

Shining Hours. Shining Hours, who has had only one start, and finished fast into fifth place in the maiden event at the spring meeting in Bulls after being badly left, will probably next raeo on the second day of the Pahiatua meeting. She is a halfsister to Karl and Scrgia. . Sale of Wynardo. Air R. M. Taylor has sold The Ace colt Wynardo to Air L. O’Neill, of New Plvmouth, the price mentioned being 400 guineas. The same owner’s,. Spcardance— Alias Potoa gelding Hill Billy has been leased to a patron of H. Gray’s stable, and later will be prepared for cross-coun-try events.

Fidelis To Spell. The two-year-old Fidelia, by Lord Quex from C’atalani, was added to the list a few days ago and is to have a spell before being required to race again. Fidelis displayed hits best .-form when he won the Nursery Handicap on the opening day of the Auckland Racing Club’s arnimer meeting at Ellerslic and with age ho may prove useful. Silver Scorn’s Half-Sister. Mr G. Alurray-Aynsley has reason to feel well pleased with the progress of the halfsister to Silver Scorn. The Robespierre two-year-old is a smart galloper and should be ready to show to advantage when produced at the C.J.C. summer meeting, although she will not have raced previously. She is a fine filly and has had. the benefit of a long, steady and patient preparation. Mazir as Sprinter. Mazir has made a quicker recovery from tho rick sustained three weeks ago # than expected, though ho is still moving* just a trifle short in his work. At Thames ho is likely to he seen out in a now role —that of a sprinter. In his races this season he has an the early 6tages occupied

a position with the rear divisions, and a continuance of this would give him little chance of winning races of six furlongs. In his track work, however, ho lias given evidence of mustering up speed very quickly, so his entries for the Thames meeting may. be said to be quite justified. Cuddle Very Well. Cuddle has not taken long to enthuse about her work again, for last week, she fairly bounded into her stride when sent on a couple of rounds of pacing. She was still pulling at tho end,, though the fat she has put on in her short spell had her blowing hard. All sign of trouble fiom the splint appears to have gone. The growth yielded quickly to treatment, and T. 11. George does not suspect further concern from this source. He is mainly worried about bringing the marc back into trim, but with such work as she did it should not take Tong. Debut Over Fences. Tho Now Zealand colt Brabant, who was one of the failures in the Aletropolitan Handicap run at Kenilworth race truck, Capetown, in November, created a sensation on the tracks a few mornings before tho raco was run. He is a very lughly strung colt and when preparing to take part in a nine-furlongs gallop with a stable companion lie broke away, suddenly wheeled round ' before his jockey could control him, and wont careering towards the rails. For a second it appeared that he would crash into the ra’ns. but with a mighty leap Brabant jumped the i ails and also cleared a ditch that encircles tho insldo of the track. In doing so his hind leg struck the rails and smashed a portion of the fence. Brabant injured the patella and was bone and muscle sore for a few days. Trebleack’s Breeding. Trebleack, whose good form was one of the features of tho holiday racing in Southland, belongs to the same family as The Smuggler. His dam, Mouse Signal, was by Vice-Admiral from Aliss Signal, but her name docs not appear in the Stud Book. Aliss Signal was by Signalman from Aliss Stent, and was also dam of Signaller. Another daughter of Aliss Signal was Aliss Fleelham, who was tho dam of The Smuggler. The late Air F. A. Price, who raced Rorke’s Drift, purchased Miss Signal for 43 guineas at a sa'c .of North Island horses held at Invercargill in 1910, and the breeding -of her dam was then . given as being by Randwick from Gipsy Girl, by Kingston from Black Bess. Randwick. who won the Hawke’s Bay Cup in 1881,- was by Barbarian, by Sir Hercules. .