FROM STUD AND STABLE Natural Resources Have Bearing On N.Z. Success

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31936, 13 March 1969, Page 4

FROM STUD AND STABLE Natural Resources Have Bearing On N.Z. Success

“New Zealand has won a place of world standing as a thoroughbred nursery and it would not be unfair to say it has done so more because of its natural resources rather than through the top-ranking sires we have imported,” said Mr Peter Kelly in ! an address in Southland last week-end.

] Mr Kelly, a well-known bloodstock auctioneer |and racing commentator, (travelled south after the [racing at Trentham last Saturday for a field day! held at Mr W. E. Haz-| left’s Chelandry Stud, near Invercargill, on Sunday.

Mr Kelly told several hundred owners and breeders he felt there was a new era ahead for the thoroughbred breeding industry. With Australia as New Zealand’s main market, a footing being obtained in Malaysia and America, and exciting possibilities about sales at [South Africa the future looked particularly bright, Mr Kelly said.

i With top sires beyond the i price level of most individual ! studmasters, groups of prominent breeders had overcome the problem by syndication.

] Mr Kelly believes it is a [fallacy that Southland could inot produce yearlings and young stock up to Trentham standards.

He thought the Chelandry Stud foals be saw last weekend compared with any he had seen on his many visits to other New Zealand studs.

( The first South Island sale (held in Christchurch last year !had exceeded all expectations and he felt its future was assured.

Mr Kelly emphasised the ] importance of producing (stock in first-class order for ithe sale ring. Then the Christ(church veterinarian, Mr C. (H. G. Irvine, told owners how they could do so in an address on the care and attention of broodmares and J their progeny. It was an amazing fact, Mr Irvine said, that Southland had a higher fertility rate—up to 85 per cent—than any other part of New Zealand. Yet many Southland mares were sent to the studs in poor condition after hard winters. Mr Irvine said the foaling mare had to be well fed. and free of internal and external parasites.

The Chelandry sires, Lomond, Kurdistan and Hawa. [ were paraded at the field day, 1 as were several foals from Lomond’s first crop. The 22-year-old Kurdistan ] also attracted great interest. Now white, the former grey is in great health. Last season he was mated with 53 [ mares and 49 positive tests | were returned. (