A GOOD FIND

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 979, 23 May 1930, Page 15

A GOOD FIND

Yeung Pacer Knocks Big Slices Off Handicap BELINDA’S NEXT MARK On© of the “finds” of the season in the novice department is undoubtedly the four-year-old mare Belinda, who set the watch ticking and tongues wagging merrily at the recent Forbury Park meeting. Belinda is owned, trained and driven I*3' G. McKendry, of Christchurch, and claims as her parents Oinako (Harold Dillon—Grata nette) and Dorothy D, who was got from a thoroughbred mare by Viking, a son of Chiide Harold A glance at this lineage will be sufficient to convince stud< s of the breeding business that Belinda has splendid strains of the best blood flowing through her veins. Still on Handy Mark The four-year-old is one of the best propositions in work at Addington. Starting off as a maiden at the Banks Beninsula Racing Club’s summer meeting, the Oinako mare took on two-mile opposition in the Waihora Trot, and from the limit, 5.0, registered 4.47 2-5, winning easily by four lengths. Her next appearance in a race was at Forbury Park this month. On the first day, she contested the Domain Handicap of a mile and a-ha If, registering

3.26 4-5 from 3.39 and winning practically as she liked. On Saturday, she again tackled a two-mile journey—tho Royal Handicap—and from 4.50 won in 4 34 3-5 without being unduly extended. This means that Belinda’s next twomile mark will be 4.45. as the figures were registered in a 4.52 limit event. It is difficult to gauge just how good Belinda is by her comfortable victories, but her connections have reason to thank the authorities for a handicapping system which will allow her to get more plums before adjusted to her best effort.