VALE!
FAREWELL TO ONYX BRILLIANT CAREER TERMINATED The brilliant pacing mare Onyx, who is now proved in foal to the American bred sire Peter Chenault, is to be retired from the race track, and she leaves the turf with a great record. Onyx was owned and trained in the South Island. Each time she competed in Auckland sportsmen watched her running with the greatest interest. She accounted for the Onslow Handicap at the Auckland summer meeting in 1925. Onyx in her eight seasons’ racing has sported silk on 96 occasions, winning £10,637 in stakes and ending up with a record of 3.13 for a mile and a-half, though ,it was accomplished against time, and a two-mile record of 4.23 4-5. In her career Onyx has accounted for 15 events, has been second on 21 occasions, and third 14 times. Driver J. Messervey and the mare received a great ovationin the event in which she made her mile record of 2.10 3-5, and in doing so had to negotiate a big bunch and finished wide out. It is to be hoped that whatever progeny Onyx leaves will prove to be of the same brilliancy as their dam —if that is possible.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 16, 9 April 1927, Page 7
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200VALE! Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 16, 9 April 1927, Page 7
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