RACING Overseas Horses For Stud Duty

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32322, 13 June 1970, Page 6

RACING Overseas Horses For Stud Duty

A four-year-old son of the great Native Dancer has been bought for Mr W. A. Grant’s Strathconan Stud at Washdyke.

He is the grey, Country Dance, which was selected by Mr D. B. Claskson, bloodstock manager of Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltd. on his recent trip to the United Kingdom. On his' English visit—he was on one of the B.A.C. VCIO inaugural flights—Mr Clarkson also purchased four fillies for Canterbury studmasters, two for Mr D. B. C. Allin, of the Morwenstow Stud, Kaiapoi, one for Mr and Mrs R. E. Adair, of the Inglewood Stud, and one for the Te Mania Stud, of Parnassus. Country Dance raced 11 times and his nine starts at three years produced a win over 11 furlongs and 150 yards at Bath, a third over a mile and a quarter at Lingfield Park, and two fourths. •‘Horse Of Year” Country Dance s sire. Native Dancer won 21 races and 8785,240, was the American “Horse of the Year” in 1954, has had marked success as a sire, and also sired the dam of Northern Dancer, whose son, Nijinsky, showed champion qualities in winning the English Derby last week. Native Dancer’s winners included Raise a Native •(Great American Stakes and successful sire). Hula Dancer (Grand Criterium, One Thousand Guineas, Champion Stakes and Prix Jacques le Marois). Dan Cupid( Prix du Bois, Prix de Saint-James, Prix Pourtales, and sire of the English Derby winner,

Chance For Chango (N Z P A Staff Correspondent)

MELBOURNE The former New Zealand horse. Chango. which scored at long odds on the flat at Moonee Valley two weeks ago is a shortpriced favourite for the York Hurdle (two miles) at Flemington today. Chango has had two starts over hurdles for moderate showings but proved his fitness by winning the Flowerfield Handicap (13 furlongs) at Moonee Valley at his last start.

i Sea Bird), Kauai King (Kentucky Derby, Preakness 1 Stakes), and others. Near Miss, the dam of Country Dance, was got by Nearco from Beginner's Luck, by Djebel from Young Entry, by Foxhunter from Fair Venus. Near Miss raced only at I two years and was placed. To Pinza she left William Tell, which won five races. Beginner's Luck was placed and left the winners, Originator, Flower of China and La Belle Inutile. Young Entry won four races including the Lancai shire Oaks, Mornington Stakes, Ascot and Atlanta Stakes. She became the dam | of Atlas (by Djebel), the win--1 ner of the Doncaster Cup and Dee Stakes; Miner’s Lamp (by Signal Light), which won the Blue Riband Trial Stakes at Epsom and the Princess of Wales Stakes at Newmarket; and Apprentice (t>y Aureole), winner of the Yorkshire and Goodwood Cups. “Don’t come home without buying us a Rustam filly,” Mrs F. Wilding, of the Te Mania Stud, instructed Mr Clarkson before his departture for the United Kingdom. Mr Clarkson fulfilled his contract with the purchase of Rusty Pin a grey daughter of the Persian Gulf horse which was unbeaten at two years, retired to the stud in 1958 as winner of four races and £12,193, and has sired winners of more than 100 races: and over £IOO,OOO. Rusty Pin’s dam is Pinall, by the Derby winner Pinza, I from Riccal, by Kurdistan’s: brilliant sprinting half-bro-1 ther, Abernant from Congo, by Bellacose from Kong. Pinall did not race but left Diamond Pin, a winner at two years.

Placed * Riccal, which was owned by the famous Sassoon Stud, was placed in one of her three starts. She is also the dam of Rich Gift sire of Rich Return, the champion two-year-old filly of New Zealand this season. Congo left the good winner, Julias, and Byland which won 11 races in England and has sired some top performers in New Zealand. Mr Clarkson's purchase for Mr and Mrs R. E. Adair’s Inglewood Stud is Elleybec, a bay fitly foaled in 1967 by Tacitus (son of the Irish Derby winner, Talgo) from Sugar Sauce, a daughter of Hard Sauce, which sired the English Derby winner, Hard Ridden. Sugar Sauce won three races, all over five -furlongs, at three years, one

being the Pepys Handicap at Epsom. The next dam, Happy Holiday, was a winner, and was a daughter of Sunny Path, a half-sister to Mountain Path, which won and produced Sovereign Path, winner of eight races including the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes and sire of the successful Ra Ora stallion, Sovereign Edition. One of Mr Clarkson’s purchases for Mr Allin’s Morwenstow stud is a daughter of the speed sire, Palestine, which has been brilliantly represented in New Zealand by Pakistan 11. She is Impish, a grey filly bred in 1966, and a threequarter sister in blood to Zeus Boy, winner of eight races including the Brighton and Brighton Autumn Cups, and two good handicaps at Lingfield Park. Impish's dam, Imperial, is by Dante from Bonnet O’Blue, which won six races and was placed in eight others. The second filly bought for the Morwenstow Stud is Three Bee, which made a successful debut as a two-year-old in the Westgate Plate at Ripon last month. Three Bee is by BleepBleep, the champion English sprinter of 1960, from Balfour Lass, winner of four races, by the Signal Light horse. My Smokey, from Gay Beryl, winner of two races, I by Birikan (son of the Triple Crown winner, Bahram) from Gay Sprite, winner of three races. Three Bee’s sire, Bleep Bleep, will be represented at stud next season by Charicles, which was bought earlier this year for the Hampton Lodge: Stud at Invercargill.

Amberley Profit

Owners and trainers who had been most liberal with their nominations. the donor of i trophies, and the voluntary! workers, who were the back-1 bone of the organisation on race day, contributed to an-j other successful year for the Amberley Trotting Club. The club’s president (Mr E. C. Topp) will tell members this and that a profit of $125 for the: year was quite satisfactory.: when he presents his report and; the balance sheet at the annual meeting next Wednesday. The report says that public patronage at the club’s annual equalisator meeting last September was very satisfactory. Although it was regretted that balloting out was necessary, the club was still to give 201 horses an opportunity to start in the 14 equalisator races and the two two-year-old parades. ‘ Revenue from the equalisator amounted to $554. Other sources of income during the year Included nomination fee $5lO andi members’ subscriptions $402. Stakes and trophies distributed at the race meeting were worth $485. Other major items of expenditure were printing and advertising $235, catering! and entertainment expenses $l5B. and wages $lO7.