FROM STUD AND STABLE Heavy Entry List For 1965 Yearling Sales

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30530, 27 August 1964, Page 4

FROM STUD AND STABLE Heavy Entry List For 1965 Yearling Sales

Entries for the thirty-ninth annual national sale of yearlings at Trentham next January total 572, and in the list are a good number of richly related youngsters bound to attract interest of buyers from far afield.

Summertime is a name with almost a magic ring about it for the big Australian buyers, and the visitors should get good opportunities to buy more stock sired by that most successful Precipitation horse at the 1965 sales.

Fifteen Summertime colts and eight fillies have been entered.

In the last three years 40 sons and daughters have, been sold through the Trentham sale ring. Overseas buyers have taken 29 of them for 63,975gns and New Zealand purchases ran to 11 at a cost of 9225gn5. At the last sale alone 13 of the stock of Summertime changed hands for 35,700gn5. Twelve went to Australia and one to Canada. Most of the Australian classics are run between now and the yearling sales, and if the Summertime’s manage to improve their grand record in those races new buying records might be established. Cup Horse ? Unless he has faults in conformation or is undersized, a chestnut colt by Summertime

from Lady Letty, to be offered by Mr W. Alexander, of Te Awamutu, should be ' one of the top lots of the sale. This youngster is a halfbrother to Quite Able, winner of a New Zealand Cup, and a Very close Wellington Cup second behind Great Sensation for Mr L. R. C. Macfarlane. The Sydney trainer, T. J. Smith, who has been the biggest individual buyer at the sales for many years, is pretty certain to show interest in a chestnut colt by Summertime out of Scalzo, bred at the Kinross Stud. Moviegoer, a brother to this colt, has been a fairly good

winner for the Smith stable. Mr G. S. Walton, of Otaki, will have a richly-bred Summertime colt in the sales. This bay is a half-brother to

Castlerae, which was a highclass performer at a mile and which teamed with Commanding to give Mr Walton a clean sweep in the Guineas races in 1961. Castlerae was sold to the successful American owner, Mr Rex Ellsworth, and went wrong before he raced in the United States. Champion’s Brother A brother to Commanding will also be offered, but on account of Mr J. J. Kessler, of Arcadia, California. Mr Walton bred Commanding and three others from the Balloch mare, Qualify,- and the Knight’s Romance colt will be Mr Kessler’s first venture as a vendor in New Zealand. Nereid, now 19 years old, and famous as the dam of Fox Myth and the Australian star. Sometime, will be represented in the next sale by a bay colt by Alcimedes. He is from the Trelawney Stud draft. Passive, the best of her sex, and age as a three-year-old, is the dam of a brown Macquario colt which will be offered on account of Mr J. A. Mitchell, of the Santa Rosa Stud..

One of the more interesting of the South Island youngsters entered is a grey filly by Pharamond from Pastel, a record-breaker as a two-year-old, and dam of the winner, Pale Blue.

Le Filou, the champion sire for the season just ended, has several sons and daughters in the sale. One is a brother of the Auckland Cup winner, Senor; another a brother of Hakawai, which took high ranking as a two-year-old last season in winning the W.R.C. Wakefield Challenge Stakes and three other races.

Granada, grand-dam of the brilliant Starlit, will be represented by a chestnut colt by a new sire, but one with a name that held as much significance 30 and more years ago as Foxbridge did later. Granada’s colt is by Martian 11, a young imported horse by the brilliant Court Martial.