A FINE QUARTET.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20269, 11 August 1937, Page 12

A FINE QUARTET.

MR J. CARROLL 8 TEAM. m FOUR HORSES WIN £2,450. TOSH HIS STAR PERFORMER. In view of the size of his tesm no trainer at Te Rapa experienced a more successful season than M. J. Carroll, whose quartette, won between them stakes totalling £2,450. They accounted for 16 races they contested. Tosh was the most prolific eontrt butor with £B4O, for four wins and six minor places in 19 starts, Lucidu* winning three of the 22 races he contested and collecting an individual tally of £O2O. Orac raced with marked consistency In the sixteen events he started he was successful five times and was three times in minor places. In all he collected £6lO. Boughal (£380) started on fourteen occasions for three wins, two seconds and two thirds.

! fin. Lady Diana. May Song. Maori Song, Nelumbo, Old Surrey, PakanuU Peter Beekford. Pcnnyconiequick. Rapa Waiata, Rolllcker, Auinctte, Sporting Song, Sporting Gift, Tavern Song aud Tupai. When he first headed the sires’ list in 1932-33, Hunting Song’s progeny were credited with £9646 10s. and In the three following years the amounts were £10,301. £15,194, and £14,013 10s. The Hunting Song clan in New Zealand has won approximately £99,000. I Hunting Song’s latest crop of foalo compare very favourably with any seen round the district and indications ain they will command attention in the Yearling Sales again this year. j Half-Brother to Derby Winner. jj Hunting Song’s companion at th# Carrington establishment Is the recent acquisition, Baffles (Blandford-Waf-fles), who Has filled out noticeably of late. It is interesting to note that Baffles, a half-brother to the English Derby winner. Manna, was purchased as a yearling for 6,000 guineas, but at he did not come up to expectations on the race track he was sold for export. Stylishly bred and possessing the constitution to throw good stock he should prove a valuable acquisition to the local breeding Industry. Through the recent deeds of King Rey, Raceful has again come prominently to the forefront and his breeding lines claim attention. Valkyrian, who is standing the season at Matamata. has produced a number of prominent jumpers, among them being the well-performed Yalpeen. LorckVal, Haakon and the speedy Val Watch. He is by William the Third, by St. Simon, from Valkyr, by Eager. Grandson of Swynford. The blood of Swynford, winner of the St. Leger, is highly valued, and among the sires who will be standing in the Waikato this season is his grandson Beau Irish. The line of Swynford lias been carried on most successfully by his son Hlandford, sire of four Derby winners. Blenheim, Trigo, Windsor Lad and Bahrani. Blenheim, who was at the stud in England before being purchased for America for £50,000, sired Mahmoud, winner of the Derby last year, and Donatello 11., the crack Italian three-year-old, who wa# second in the Grand Prix de Paris in June. Donatello 11. was purchased last month by M. Edward Esmond for £45,000. The only sire In the Waikato ' by Day Comet is Day Guide, who la # standing at Rofdkauri. He is a beautiful chestnut showing plenty of quality and should throw attractive stock. The prominence in the hunting and jumping world associated with the stock of lay Comet should ensure this sire wide patronage during the present season. Lysander, with whom Surview will he associated at the Reilly establishment. is an attractive young horse hv Absurd from Pennon, one of the most successful families hrouglu out from England. Absurd was the most sueL'pssful twn-year-olil of IHs year |„ England, winning the Middle park Plate and other races worth £*.475, ind premier sire of New Zealand on five occasions and sire of winners of aver £290.000. Lysander is one of the best looking stallions in the Dominion it the present time. The four-year-old. Royal Chieftain Is standing at Rofo-o ransri || r j s | iy be Turc, a son of General Laiour. sir# af those five performers Te Kart Karapoti and C.allio. His dam. Royal Betty, Is by Royal Soult. Twice In successive years he won the thoroughbred stallion section at the Waikato ientral Agricultural and Pastoral show, at Cambridge.