RACING TRIO FROM OTAKI FOR BRISBANE

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27666, 24 May 1955, Page 5

RACING TRIO FROM OTAKI FOR BRISBANE

MIGHTY, IRIDIUM, AND PHAROAH’S CASTLE "The Press” Special Service „ e. WELLINGTON, May 23. Messrs G. S. Walton and T. A. McFetridge, Otaki, plan to leave for Australia in the Wanganella on June 2 with Mighty, Iridium, and Pharoah’s Castle. Their destination is Brisbane, where the horses are engaged at the Doomben meeting. It was intended to include the Douro Handicap winner. Decisive, in the team, but he has required long treatment for injuries he received when galloped on the last time he raced at Wanganui, in January, and is now only ready to go bach into work. The good-class four-year-old. Saboteur, which had been spelling in the Manawatu district since he pulled up lame in the Queen Elizabeth Plate at Paeroa last December, has been sent to Hastings, where he is being treated for tendon trouble by Mr E. J. Callaghan. Saboteur showed good form in the spring, winning the weight-for-age Harcourt Stakes, at Trentham, and a handicap double at Otaki, as well as finishing second to Takatu in the Foxbridge Plate at Te Rapa. His two-year-old half-brother, by King’s Counsel, has been named Savoyan, and is to make his debut at Masterton this ? e 1? a fine-looking colt, and has attracted attention at several meetings to which he has been taken for experience.

Returned to Trainer promising four-year-old, Bulla, which has not raced since he cracked a bone when finishing fourth in the President s Handicap at Trentham, in March, has finished his spell at Levin, and is to return to E. Ropiha’s stable at WoodY, 111 ?’A?«” ray examinations have revealed that the bone has* kntted, but Bulla is to receive further treatment before he resumes active training. Bulla showed considerable promise earlier in the season, and was expected to make his mark in stayers’ handicaps. The New Zealand Oaks winner, Subifrne, has been retired from racing, and s “.® to in the coming season with Faux Tirage. Sublime is a four-year-old mare by the St. Leger winner Spiral (son of Li mon d) from the brilliant race mare, Subdued, by Ringmaster. In three seasons racing she won seven races and with place money on 10 occasions, £4355 in stakes. Sublime won once as a two-year-old, at Masterton, beating Idaho. Her best season was as a three-year-old, when she won six races, five of them in succession. These wins were hack races at Otaki (2), at Auckland (2), the New Zealand Oaks, and the Eulogy Stakes at Awapuni. She also finished second to Surprise Ending in the Great Northern Oaks. Sublime failed to win this season, but she was placed six times, including second in the Hastings Gold Cup and third in the Ashhurst Cup. After being galloped on in several of her races, she became field shy, so her owner, Mr G. S. Walton, decided to retire her. Mr Walton has also retired the Balloch mare, Qualify, and she will be mated with Golden Souvenir.

WORLD RECORD FOR SEVEN FURLONGS

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) INGLEWOOD (California), May 22. El Drage, a four-year-old, ridden by Johnny Longden, broke the world record for seven furlongs in a race at Inglewood yesterday when he covered the distance in Imin 20sec.

STEEPLECHASE AT NEW YORK

NEW YORK, May 22. The International Steeplechase Stakes at Belmont Park, New York, yesterday resulted NEJI .. .. .. 1 Ancestor .. .. .. 2 Hyvania .. .. .. 3 All three placed horses were American.