FROM STUD AND STABLE Big Winner For Southland Stud

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31195, 20 October 1966, Page 4

FROM STUD AND STABLE Big Winner For Southland Stud

A top-ranking English handicap horse, Lomond, winner of £28,000, has been bought by Mr W. E. Hazlett, of Invercargill, for his Chelandry Stud.

The price paid for Lomond was more than £30,000 and according to the bloodstock agencies which handled the purchase he will be the highest-priced sire ever brought to New Zealand by an individual.

Lomond will be shipped from England this week, and will join Kurdistan and Hawa at the Chelandry Stud next spring. Lomond won from the age of two until he was six, in the present season. He has had 30 starts and has won 12 races. This season he won five races and was twice placed in seven starts. His last race was in the York Ever Handicap, of £10,500, over a mile and threequarters. Twenty-three started, and Lomond won by a head under top-weight of 9.11. He has carried big weights in all his six-year-old racing and has won from seven furlongs to two miles. Lomond is a son of Preciptic, a leading son of Precipitation at the stud in Great Britain and Ireland. Preciptic raced for five seasons and won 15 races. His

record of siring 55 two-year-old winners was much better than expected from a son of Precipitation. Preciptic’s stock included the good winners Predominate (Goodwood Cup, two miles) and Lepidoptic (Ascot King George V Stakes). Preciptic is by Precipitation, and Lomond will be another representative of the Hurry On line which has been very successful in New Zealand. Precipitation has already had two notable sons in New Zealand in Summertime and Count Rendered, both topranking sires. Miss Prince, the dam of Lomond, is by River Prince (son of Rose Prince) from Penny Royal and belongs to a family which produced the Derby winners Cameronian and Straight Deal. The British racing authority, John Hislop, wrote that Lomond had been the only horse to win the Newmarket Princess of Wales Stakes (one

and a half mile) twice and described him as a particularly well built, strong, tough, and courageous horse. Lomond is expected to stand at a fee of 325gns next season. Kurdistan, which is standing at a record Southland fee of 200gns, is fully booked this season.