"A WONDER HORSE."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 232, 2 October 1933, Page 7

"A WONDER HORSE."

Two-year-old Colombo England's

Best- Juvenile

WINS 17.000SOVS IN STAKES,

(Received II.JJO a.m.) LONDON, October 1. The "Sunday Dispatch"' declares that Colombo, who won the Imperial Produce Stakes, carrying I).C, broke the Kcnipton Park record for six furlongs by running the distance in 1.12 '3-5. Colombo te one of the century's wonder horses. Already he has won seven races, of a total value of 17,000sovs. The only peculiarity about him is that he rears if hie head is touched, otherwise he it a perfect racing machine.

Colombo is a two-year-old by the Derby winner Manna, from Lady Nairne, by Chaucer, and has won all seven races in which ho has competed. lie was bred by Sir Alec Black, and its owned by Lord Glanely, being trained by Captain T. Hogg at Newmarket. His first start was in the First Spring Two-year-old Stakes of five furlongs, at Newmarket on April 25. He was then unnamed, and won by a head. He won tho Scarborough Sweepstake, five furlongs, at York; the Xew Stakes, five furlongs, at Ascot; the Fulbourne Stakes, five furlongs and 140 yds, at Newmarket, the National Breeders' Produce Stakes, five furlongs, at Sandown Park; and the Richmond Stakes, six furlongs, at Goodwood.