FROM STUD AND STABLE English-bred Mauna Loa produces first foal

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33003, 24 August 1972, Page 8

FROM STUD AND STABLE English-bred Mauna Loa produces first foal

Excitement ran high at Morwenstow Stud, near Kaiapoi, last Monday afternoon. The special occasion was the birth of Mauna Loa’s first foal.

The English-bred Mauna Loa. which was selected for the Morwenstow studmaster, Mr D. B. C. Allin, by Mr D. B. Clarkson, bloodstock manager of Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltd, while on a visit to England last year, produced a filly by Greek God. When Mr Clarkson chose Mauna Loa it was not because of her race record. She I had little time to make a name for herself on the turf for she was only a three-year-old (English time) when she arrived here last August. But she was from a family which had produced a host of winners and one which had close ties with New Zealand through the top sires, Foxbridge and Gold Nib.

Mauna Loa, a daughter of the American-bred Fighting Don and the Krakatao mare. Flowing Lava, is a sister to Three Dons, the winner of 11 races, Debach Girl, which won eight. Fiery Don, the winner of three, and Don Lava, which was also a winner. Mistiago, a half-sister, by Miraglo, won three races, including the Irish 2000 Guineas before being exported to the United States.

Mauna Loa’s third dam was Bridgemount which, to Foxlaw, produced Foxbridge, and, to Hurry On, produced Cresta Run, the grandam of Gold Nib.

Mauna Loa’s foal is the third new arrival at Morwenstow within a few days. The first, a filly by Orbiter, was foaled last Friday. The dam of this youngster is Paringa Lilly and her foal, like herself, is a grey. Paringa Lilly, which is Australian-owned, is a daughter of Jekyll and the

Kurdistan mare, Egyptian Pride.

Grey is the predominant! [Colour among the new foals. On Saturday Impish 11, which produced a filly by Greek God last spring, foaled a grey colt by the same sire. Impish 11, a daughter of Palestine and Imperial, is one of two mares imported from England by Mr Allin two years ago. The other. Three Bee (Bleep Bleep-Balfour

Lass) produced a colt by Orbiter last year and was covered by the same sire again but is not due to foal for about another month.

Mr Allin, one of the strongest supporters of the South Island Bloodstock Sales since its inauguration five years ago, said yesterday that he was seriously considering offering Three Bee’s colt foal at next year’s sales. “I don’t think a two-year-old

out of an imported mare has previously been offered at the South Island sale,” he said. “It would give added interest to the catalogue.” CANTERBNRY-BRED Analei, winner of the Ailsa Handicap at Moonee Valley last Saturday, is a three-year-old filly by Sovereign Addition out of Nalei. She was bred by Te Mania Bloodstock, Parnassus, and was sold as a yearling at Trentham for $7OOO to the Melbourne trainer, G. Murphy. Nalei’s yearling colt, by Tiber 11, which was offered at this year’s National Sales at Trentham, also fetched $7OOO. He was bought by the well-known South African owner, Mr C. Smith. Amalei is a sister to the Queensland winner, Sovereign Isle.

NOTABLE FIRST The former top race mare, Elabama, recently foaled a filly by All A Light on the property of her owner, Mr J. D. Malcolm, proprietor of the Te Rapa Stud, Hamilton. Elabama, which has just turned seven, is in her first season at stud, A well-pro-portioned grey mare, she was bought at the Sydney Yearling Sales by Mr Malcolm mainly as a breeding proposition, but when tried she came to immediate form and in three seasons established her class as a sprintermiler.

Altogether Elabama won more than $20,000 in stakes and her record as a three-year-old included wins in the Avondale Guineas, the Auckland Racing Club’s Railway Handicap and the Telegraph Handicap at Trentham. The stock of the Englishbred All A Light in New Zealand are now yearlings. He did a term at stud in Australia and from his first crop there, as two-year-olds last season, he was represented by five winners.