FROM STUD AND STABLE N.Z.-bred sires will be well represented

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32861, 9 March 1972, Page 9

FROM STUD AND STABLE N.Z.-bred sires will be well represented

The combined efforts of Dhow and Fairhead in the South Island Futurity Stakes at Oamaru on Saturday give their New Zealand-bred, Canterbury-based sires strong chances of taking high ranking on this season’s list of two-year-old earners.

Fairhead, a daughter of Fountainhead, is one of the obvious chances for the $4OOO feature race at Oamaru after her brilliant win in the Canterbury Challenge Stakes at Riccarton last month. Dhow, which is from the first crop of Final Orders, was fifth behind Fairhead in the Riccarton race, but probably assured herself of favouritism for the Oamaru race with a brilliant win at the Banks Peninsula meeting last week. Dhow’s young sire will probably have representatives racing in Australia soon. This week three of his stock are to be shipped from New Zealand. Two of them are two-year-olds, and one of them, a colt from Russian Princess, will be raced on lease by Mr B. R. Mills, of Blenheim, who is going to try his luck with a small team across the Tasman. Russian Princess was by Defaulter from Russian Lady, by Passaform from Maid of Russia, by Roydon from Olga, by Kilrain. Mr J. A. Higgs who raced Final Orders and leased him to Mr J. F. Tutton, will race

■ two sons of the Final Court , horse in partnership with an Australian, Mr A. Hall. These youngsters, a two- ' year-old gelding from Rototane and a yearling colt from Clare Belle, will be shipped to Australia this week with members of the Mills team. Rototane, the dam of the two-year-old, is by Faux Tirage and a descendant of i the Australian-bred Jaquette, > a daughter of Magpie, i This is a branch of the dis- ’ tinguished Cutty Saric fam- ■ ilv.

For a few weeks last spring Stormy Seas became one of the mystery horses of the South Island racing scene. He went “into smoke” for a time after the Invercargill trainer, R. F. Pankhurst, brought him north for the New Zealand Cup meeting. Pankhurst had only a scrawled note from the owner to indicate that the horse had been placed elsewhere. Stormy Seas spent some weeks on a property close to

Christchurch and all conjecture about his future ceased when it was announced that he would be joining the stable the Woodville trainer, S. A. Brown, was to set up in Sydney. Last Saturday Stormy Seas made an impact on the Sydney racing scene with a game win under 9-6 in the Holroyd Welter, 7f, at Warwick Fann. Immediately after Stormy Seas won, his owner, Mr A. Milne, said the four-year-old would run in the $50,000 Doncaster Handicap at Randwick on April 1. Stormy Seas was a familiar figure at Riccarton. He impressed everyone with his gameness when he won twice as a three-year-old at the 1970 Grand National meeting. He was back at Riccarton last August to win the Heathcote Handicap. That followed a fourth in Triton’s Winter Cup.