UNUSUAL RETURN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 110, 5 November 1938, Page 22

UNUSUAL RETURN

NEW ZEALAND STUD BOOK

Despite continued slight soreness, Southern Blood stood up to all demands made on him for over a year, and now he is enjoying a well-earned rest for a couple of months or so. In his place Mrs. P. M. Flan has put the unraced Golden Hawk in more serious commission, and she hopes to have this gelding racing at Levin later on this month.

Golden Hawk, whether or not he makes a racehorse on the testing ground, has already some claim to interest. This is revealed in the latest volume of the New Zealand Stud Book, in which there are the two following returns:—

HELEN WINKIE. 1934—Twins (b f Helen Quex, eh c Golden Hawk), by Lord-Quex, HELEN QUEX.

1937—Ch f (destroyed), by Golden Hawk.

It is not usual for breeders to keep thoroughbred twins, even if both are foaled alive. The general practice is to retain the more likely of the youngsters and to destroy the other. In the case of Helen Winkie's twins, however, both were kept by their breeder, Mr, F. Price, of Masterton. " The filly, Helen Quex, was eventual-

ly acquired by Mr. C W. Boyd, the owner of Surmount, Tidewaiter, etc. At the time it was naturally not suspected that she was in foal. She dropped the foal last spring, and it was necessary to destroy it, A few weeks later she was mated with Inflation. Golden Hawk, the twin full-brother to Helen Quex, was purchased from his breeder by Mrs. M. C Gregory, who has leased him for three years fo Mrs. Flan. He was brought down from Eketahuna some months ago, and since his arrival at Trentham he has done very well in putting on condition and moulding into promising shape. There is good breeding about Golden ' Hawk, His dam, Helen Winkie was by Winkie from the Signer—Helen Portland mare St. Helen, a half-sister to Bonny Portland, the dam of Beremoana, Lady Cavendish, Lady Bentinck, etc. Helen Portland is ancestress of a whole host of winners and most of those descending from her have been able to gallop above average