SIBELLA'S BREEDING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 261, 4 November 1933, Page 14

SIBELLA'S BREEDING.

The four-year-old mare Sibella, who paid ; the big dividend at the .Banks Peninsula meeting last week, was having her first race when she scored a win in tne Halswell Handicap. She was in work early in her career, but a mishap made a spell necessary, delaying her racing debut. She had shown nothing in her recent track gallops to suggest that she was more than moderate, but her performance'on Saturday was very attractive, so she may go on now to better deeds. She is by Silverado from ;Zaragoza, by Nassau from Madrid, thus a half-sister to Malaga and Paquito, two useful stayers, Malaga being an Auckland Cup winner, while Paquito ran second to Nightmarch in the Melbourne Cup. Flame, the dam of Madrid, was a half-sister to Treadmill, a good staying racehorse and a successful sire. Sibella may therefore make a name later over a distance. Her dam, Zaragoza, is represented in F. D. Jones' stable by a two-year-old British Empire gelding, who is n«t being hurried. The mare died recently, when almost due to foal to Philamor.