Sale of Inglewood Stud announced

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32788, 13 December 1971, Page 8

Sale of Inglewood Stud announced

Inglewood Stud, one of the South Island’s most famous thoroughbred nurseries, has changed hands.

The sale of the 120- i acre property by Mr and ! Mrs R. E. Adair to Mr ] N. ■ Wigley was an- i nounced yesterday. 1 From next March Mr ■ Wigley will conduct the stud in the interests of a company, the Thoroughbred Stud i (N.Z.) Ltd. Happily the name of the ' Inglewood Stud will be retained. The 22-year-old Mr Wigley would not have wished it otherwise, for he is a grandson of Mr Ken Austin, who bred many good winners on the property between 1939 and his death in 1959. The renewal of the family link with Inglewood has given special pleasure to Mrs Austin, who has lived in Christchurch since the stud was bought by Mr and Mrs Adair almost 12 years ago. The young man who will run Inglewood from next autumn belongs to a South Canterbury racing family. He studied for a degree of agricultural science at Lincoln, spent some time working at the successful Santa Rosa Stud near Palmerston North, and cut short a stay in England to be back in Christchurch to complete negotia- . tions for the sale of Ingle- ■ wood. In England Mr Wigley worked for some time at

the Meddlar Stud at Newmarket, which will be the , home of Pretendre for the , next few months. Later he 1 was employed by Doug Smith, the former English jockey now one of England’s prom-; inent trainers. NEW SIRE SOUGHT Mr Wigley said yesterday that efforts had already been made to buy a new stallion for Inglewood. But the syndicated Hugh Lupus horse, Tiber, which is now having his third season at Ingelwood, will remain there. Mr Adair will retain some shares in Tiber, which in England won five races and £19,942, earning a Timeform rating of 115. Mr Wigley, whose grandfather bred the top performers, Monte Carlo and Prince Cortauld, besides many other good winners at Inglewood, said yesterday, that his par- • ticular interest in a horse for an associate sire for . Tiber would be a miler type, preferably with winning form at ■ two years. Alternatively, an unraced horse from a good : female family “something ■ like Mellay, I hope.” . Mr Adair, who will send : yearlings from Tiber’s first i crop to Trentham for the na- . tional yearling sales next • month, has arranged for some • of the stud mares to be sold at • auction in Christchurch in ■ February, but he and Mrs Adair will retain one of two ■ others. t A tribute to Mr Adair’s

work in the interests of the thoroughbred industry was paid yesterday by Mr A. J. Blakely, president of the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders' Association.

He said Mr Adair had done much valuable work as the first president of the Canterbury branch, and also as a Dominion councillor.