FROM STUD AND STABLE Tiber Arrives; My Pal Sold To North Island

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31982, 8 May 1969, Page 6

FROM STUD AND STABLE Tiber Arrives; My Pal Sold To North Island

Off with the old and on with the new. The Inglewood Stud's contribution to that theme has been effected in the last few days with the arrival of the South Island’s first syndicated stallion, Tiber, and the sale of My Pal to the North Island.

Tiber arrived from England last week and will start his stud career next season with a list of 50 mares including 10 owned by persons not belonging to the syndicate. An Australian owner breeder, Mr W. Turner, of Newcastle, will send one of his mares to New Zealand soon to be mated with Tiber in his first season. The Inglewood studmaster, Mr R. E. Adair who. with Mrs Adair, owns 12 of the 40 shares in the stallion, said yesterday that Tiber was “picking up” quickly after his sea voyage. FINE RECORD. Tiber is the first son of

Hush Lupus to come to New Zealand. By earning £10.874 at three years he became the seventh most successful staying second-season performer that year. And he had some highly successful contemporaries In Ribocco, Royal Palace, Reform, Sucaryl, and the Queen's Hopeful Venture. Tiber also won at two and four years and his four-year-old form was of a better standard than much shown by some of the stars of a year earlier. At two years Tiber won two races, one of them over seven furlongs at Brighton by three lengths. His three-year-old programme was six starts for two wins and two thirds. GREAT EFFORT He won the Newcastle Scottish Handicap, one mile and a quarter, from a field of 22,

and at Ascot he won the Blue Circle Stakes at one mile and a half. The 15 three-year-old runners in that race had won a total of 30 races that season, and Tiber beat the best of the others by three lengths. One of his placings was in the News of the World Stakes at Goodwood. The winner was Sucaryl, another syndicated horse at stud in Hawke's Bay. Tiber’s four-year-old victory was in the Haydock Park Old Newton Cup, one mile and a half. He went under by only a neck in the $25,200 York Ebor Handicap, lim, when attempting to give the winner 171 b. The Abadan horse My Pal. now 15 years old, has been sold' to Mr J. Mulally, of the Te Maunga Stud, Stratford. TWO HORSES Mr Adair explained yesterday that Inglewood Stud was geared to two stallions, and it had been decided to keep Afghanistan there as associate sire with Tiber because he was younger than My Pal. My Pal was imported for the Inglewood Stud, and had a brilliant early representative in Rio. He also sired the good winners Millie Small and Donald Mac before being leased to Mr Mulally for three seasons. My Pal has had three stud seasons since bis return from the North Island, where he sired Dolapal, winner of nine races as a three-year-old this season.