We Don’t Know Goes To North Island

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31112, 15 July 1966, Page 4

We Don’t Know Goes To North Island

We Don’t Know probably will spend his next season in the North Island. The English-bred entire was sold recently to Mr D. H. McKenzie, of the Kempton Park Stud, Putaruru, but was consigned to Mr R. G. Holmes when he left Lyttelton on his way to Matamata on Tuesday evening.

recovered with veterinary at- 1 tention and is now in magni- 1 ficent order for his next stud ' season,” said Mrs Adair. 1 My Pal has joined Afghan- i istan, whose first crop sold well at the last national yearling sales in January. j Trainer's Licence i | D. N. Hadfield now has a dual licence. The Riccarton jockey was granted a trainer’s licence by the Racing Conference this week. Since early last week Hadfield has supervised the training of horses owned by Miss Edgar-Jones, who is in hospital with a fractured pelvis after a training accident. Yesterday Hadfield nominated Brown Brocade and the two-year-old Prince Pat for races at the Christchurch Hunt meeting next Saturday fortnight. Both horses have also been entered for the ■ Grand National meeting next month. Narrow Escape Mrs Hadfield was lucky to escape injury on Tuesday ' morning. She was returning ' from the track, riding Donna ' Gola and leading Brown Brocade, when both horses took . fright and she was dragged from the saddle. The accident occurred along

We Don’t Know was » one of the original | stallions the other * was My Pal—imported to New Zealand for t the Inglewood Stud, ' Ohoka, when Mr and Mrs R. E. Adair took it over seven years j ago.

Although My Pal's stock quickly made their mark—one of his first crop was the high-class performer, Rio the stock of We Don’t Know did not mature as fast and consequently failed to strike early winning form. Although We Don’t Know’s oldest stock are now only four-year-olds breeders are not prepared to wait for the slow-maturing horses. Mrs Adair said last evening that she has not lost faith in the horse and still felt that he would eventually produce some very good stayers. “He has already left some useful winners, but because his stock are not early speedsters, breeders are just not booking their mares to him," she said. My Pal has already done a term of stud duty in the North Island. He returned to Inglewood early this year. “A poisoned foot set him back for a while, but he soon

he walk reserved for horse raffle near Yaldhurst road. The horses were frightened >y a gorse cutter working in he chute. Mrs Hadfield suffered abrasons and shock. Mixed School Prince Callan, which will rave his second test as a jumper in the Studholme Hurdles at Wai mate, mixed tiis performance in a run over seven flights of hurdles yesterday. Prince Callan ran straight at speed and wasted no height in his two runs over the two hurdles nearest the main straight But the two fences, which have more open approaches, on the other side of the course he was inclined to run down rather badly, although he negotiated them safely enough. Prince Callan’s race rider, iA. R. Swanson, handled him jin. yesterday’s school. Silver Kingdom, an acceptor for the Morven Handicap at Waimate next Monday, was let off with schooling at Riccarton yesterday. With A. R. Swanson up, he was sent over two flights of standard hurdles. He made no serious mistakes, but was inclined to hesitate on the take-off side. Rider Injured

Silver Kingdom’s trainer, R. B. Taggart, will have to find a new rider for the horse in the Morven Handicap. He was to have been ridden by A. H. Eastwood, who was admitted to Christchurch Hospital on Wednesday with facial lacerations and minor eye injuries after he had been kicked by a horse. Eastwood, first horseman to R. Preece’s Riccarton stable, was bringing Vault from his yard on a lead when the horse broke away. He caught the horse again and twisted the lead around his wrist. When Vault broke away a second time Eastwood was unable to release the lead. Back To Work The Orari apprentice, E. A. McCann, will return to work at L. H. Pratt’s stable today and might be fit enough to resume race riding at the Waimate Hunt Club’s meeting on Monday. McCann was injured in a race fall at Ashburton last month. He was admitted to hospital for observation after his mount, Retard, stumbled and fell on the home turn in the Maiden Stakes. At first it was thought McCann had broken a leg but he escaped with a severe bruising.