FROM STUD AND STABLE Deeds Of Jumpers Encouraging

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32350, 16 July 1970, Page 4

FROM STUD AND STABLE Deeds Of Jumpers Encouraging

Divide and Rule is being hailed as another Bernborough, the New Zealand-owned Black Butt has won the Australian Grand National, and the Canterbury-bred Bankstown is in the top flight of Melbourne ’chasers and has proved a great bargain.

Mr D. B. Clarkson, bloodstock manager of Pyne, Gould. Guinness, believes that the deeds of these and other New Zealand-breds in the last few weeks must do much for the sales in New Zealand next season.

Bankstown, the winner of the Kensington Steeple at Flemington last Saturday week, was bred at Waipara by Mr S. E. McLean and sold to his Australian owner in June, 1966, for 200gns. Arrangements for the sale were made by Mr Clarkson, who saw Bankstown win at Flemington last Saturday week.

The leading Melbourne cross-country jockey, E. Byrne, settled for Bankstown as his Grand National mount after the Dogger Bank-Evers-leigh gelding beat Carnaby and Black Butt into the minor places in the Kensington Steeple. When Black Butt won last Saturday’s Grand National he became one of very few to credit a New Zealand owner with success in the race, became the first winner of the race to be prepared by the Adelaide trainer. Colin Hayes, and set a new record for his jockey. Black Butt is owned in New Zealand by Mr Peter Howell, who bred the nine-year-old on the “Dalray cross,” Balloch over a Broiefort mare. Black Butt’s dam, Broieform, also left Blue Gum (by Hiawatha), another good winner from Hayes’s stable. The Scottish-born Tom Me-

Ginley, who rose Black Butt in the Grand National, also won this year’s Australian Grand National Hurdles on Call Again, so has repeated the feat performed 12' months earlier by the New Zealander, M. Laurence. McGinley has now won four Grand National Steeples, and has forged ahead of the famous Tommy Corrigan and F. Dummett, who each won three.

t McGinley brought off one > of the great feats of’ winter i racing in Melbourne this year i when he rode Black Butt for I two miles and over 16 fences > with no bridle in a steeple- , chase at Flemington. Michael Laurence, trying ■ for his second Australian I Grand National Steeples, was i on the Riccarton-bred Scorn. ! This combination tried to lead i all the way, but Scorn fell a mile from home.