FROM STUD AND STABLE Wingatui’s Record At Trentham Sound

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29956, 18 October 1962, Page 4

FROM STUD AND STABLE Wingatui’s Record At Trentham Sound

Wingatui stables have had successes out of all proportion to the numbers of horses they have put into major races at Trentham in the last few years.

Last Saturday offered an example. Wingatui had five runners, and two of them, Llanmai and Rondabella, won in strong company.

Kumai also earned expenses with a fourth in the Wellington Handicap, and Promise lost more skin than stature in finishing fifth in the Glen Hurdles after being jumped on. The only Wingatui runner not to come under the judge’s eye was Desert Chief. Rondabelle earned £l3OO for winning the Wellesley Stakes, and she is already a notable bargain for Mr E. C. S. Falconer, who bought her in for a modest three-figure sum when she was offered at auction to dissolve a partnership last spring. Llanmai won £975 when he brilliantly won the Shorts Handicap at long odds. In the public mind, Llanmai in this field was probably remembered mainly as an Otago horse that was taken north in an attempt to win the Auckland Cup last season—oomethlng of a stayer. Then after he easily beat a good field of sprinters, punters remembered that his dam, Misprint, was one of the outstanding sprint mares of her time and won seven races, including the A.R.C. Easter Handicap. Misprint was by Paper Boy from Salford by Salmagundi from Patricia Holm.

Salford started her stud career in Southland and her second foal, Milford, brought her high standing as a producer by winning 11 races, including the VA.T.C. Malakoff Stakes in Australia. Later, when owned by Mrs D. Macpherson in the North Island, TJanmai’s grand-dam left the good fillies Glenkay (CJ.C. Metropolitan Handicap), Glenlee (New Zealand Oaks, Desert Gold Stakes), and Kirklea, which won nine races, including two big sprints at Trentham. Llanmai certainly belongs to a versatile family, and he seems certain to bring it further distinction this season. Kumai, running in the same colours as Uantnai, those of Mr T. K. S. Sidey, was attempting to round oft a notable Trentham hat-trick in the Wellington Handicap last Saturday. When he was taken to Trentham in July he won the Parliamentary Handicap and the Winter Oats. Kumai was anything but disgraced in the Wellington Handicap. He was virtual pacemaker for a time and started to pull hard when four of his

rivals scuttled away at a lively pace early in the race. But he kept going doggedly to the end and only lost third in the last few strides. With Great Sensation winning his second Wellington Cup ana the Trentham Stakes at Trentham in January, horses from Wingatui have had a rather remarkable year at Wellington meetings. They have certainly outshone their more numerous Riccarton rivals. Russian Derby Three Irish-hred .horses purchased for the Russians by Kerr and Company, Dublin, and sent to Russia by the London Bloodstock Agency together with nine others, finished first, second and third In the 1962 Russian Derby. The winner, Delfin (by Devonian from Fly By Night) beat Livan (by Luminary from Wimmarleigh), the Russian 2000 Guineas winner, with Elex (by Eudaemon from Perfect View) third. More Bargains A total outlay of 1315gns could have bought Australia j Gay Filou, Silver Pelt and

Mamburdl at the national sales at Trentham in i 960. 4 . These four-yegr-olds won at Caulfield ana earned £4875 (Australian) for the day. _, _ , Gay Filou earned £2BOO to winning the Toorak Handicap, and he cost Mr M. Marshall only 240gns. Mamburdl. a grandson of the Geat Eulogy, and by Globe of ght, cost 550gns, and Silver Pelt was bought for 525gns. Mr Marshall made mother good purchase on bis 1960 visit to Trentham. For 350gns he bought Blue Era, which developed good form early in his first season, and extended it Into his early three-year-old racing. Blue Era was one of the principals in the finish of the famous "leg-puli’’ A.J.C. Derby last W Bmkmakers often claim they lay better odds than the totalisator, but totalisator betters profited more in Silver Pelts case at Caulfield. Silver Pelt opened at 12/1 and started at 33's. But his win backers on the totalizator received £l2 Is 6d for ss. Gay Filou started at 25/1 and paid £l4 Is 6d for 5s on the totalisator. „ , . _ Patriotic New Zealanders could have participated ta an off-course double worth £696 14s 6d for Silver Pelt and Gay Filou were the successful comblnation. Sliver Pelt and Mamburdl returned £144 3s on a "thls-and-the-next" totalisator double. Mahmoud Dead The powerful, Arab-like grey, Mahmoud, winner of the 1936 Derby and a stud bargain at £30,000 In 1940. has died at the age of 39. in Kentucky. Mahmoud, by Blenheim out of Mah Mahal, a daughter of the famous mare, Mumtaz Mahal, sired the winners in America of nearly 1500 races and more than eight million dollars in prize money. Mahmoud's road to stud fame began in 1936 with his Derby'

win, by three lengths, in the record time of 2mln 33 4-ssec. Frank Butters, who trained him. is reported always to have claimed that Mahmoud was unlucky not to have won the Two Thousand Guineas and the St. Leger as well. In the Guineas, in which he was beaten by a short head, he dwelt at the start and lost lengths. Before the St. Leger. his preparation was interrupted by an attack of heel-bug on all four heels, but he still finished third. Mahmoud spent four seasons as a stallion to England at Egerton Stud, Newmarket, but when he was sold by the Aga Khan to the American owner, Mr C. V. Whitney, in 1940, his first crop of foals were only two-year-olds. By the end of the war the last of his British-bred offspring were tn training. In spite of the curtailed opportunities in those years, many of them did well on the race One, Distingue (1940) is Mahmoud's only son remaining at stud in England or Ireland, according to the_ •‘Register of id Stallions,' but his daughters have had an enduring influence on British W Ss!deh‘(lrish One_ Thousand Guineas and Irish Oaks) was Ms best winner ta England and also one of his best brood marsa. With her daughter. Mwaka. an even better vrinner which took the Oaks and Irish Oaks and £21.997 ta prise money for the late Aga Khan, Majideh went to America also, in 19M. It is as a sire of brood mares that Mahmoud is chiefly remembered ta England, . even though the maximum number of his daughters at the stud in England and Ireland may never have been more than two dozen at a time. _ . , Among them are Donatellos Italian-bred three-quarter sister lene/Palma Rosa, t’onioon, Mabrouka, Sesame, Silver Scuttle, Star Sapphire. Sugan Bun and Waterfleet. ~ «... Midsummer Night 11, this year's Sandown Cup and Epsom Craven Stakes winner, is out <rf an American-bred Mahmoud m Ttae most noteworthy winner tracing to Mahmoud this season Is Major I* B. Holliday s filly, NortlaTby Narrator out of Maltrise, by Atout Maitre from Mabama, one of Mahmoud’s first crop. Mahmoud’s granddam. Mumtaz Mahal, is the ancestress of many of the 94 mares the Aga Khan has this year at his Irish and French studs, notable among theim being the championi Petite Etoile, winner of £67,786 ta England, which has been mated this year with the French Two Thousand Guineas winner, Prince Bio. Like Mahmoud, Mumtaz was a high-priced bargain, which cost the Aga Khan 9100 guineas when he bought her from the Sledmere consignment at Doncaster in 1922. This is equivalent to 20,000 guineas at today s values.