FROM STUD AND STABLE Filly foal for Auckland Cup winner, Artifice

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33033, 28 September 1972, Page 8

FROM STUD AND STABLE Filly foal for Auckland Cup winner, Artifice

What price a Pakistan II filly from the 1971 Auckland Gup winner, Artifice?

That is the question everyone will be asking if, some day, the Southland owners, Mr and Sirs G. H. Murdoch, decide to sell one of the most interesting young arrivals of the spring.

Artifice’s first foal, a chestnut, was bom last week-end.

Artifice was about four weeks behind schedule producing her first-born.

It was a situation the Morwenstow studmaster, Mr D. B. C. Allin, was fairly philosophical about. “This is the way it usually goes when there’s a foal coming up for the most valuable mare on the place,” he remarked last week before Artifice foaled. Mr and Mrs G. H. Mur-

doch, of Southland, are well pleased with their decision made last year to mate their Gate Keeper mare with Pakistan 11.

The untimely death of this brilliant speed sire in July has placed a great deal of extra value on Artifice’s youngster. Artifice is at Morwenstow to be mated with the stud’s latest importation, Keekerok,

which was brought to New Zealand earlier this year to stand with Greek God, Orbiter and Fountainhead.

Keekerok is closely related to the Two Thousand Guineas winner, High Top, and is a half-brother to Tudor Music, which was bought for a big price by the Irish National Stud.

Representatives of Tudor Music’s first crop were in much demand at the Dublin sales recently, three of his yearlings aggregating 55,000 guineas.

A brown filly by Sea Hawk II from Petite Marmite, another close relation of Keekerok, brought 25,000 guineas at the September sales in England.