First runners for imported sire

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33093, 7 December 1972, Page 8

First runners for imported sire

The first of the stock of the Imported Hugh Lupus, horse, Tiber 11, will be tested under racing conditions In the Ribotlight Handicap at the Hororata meeting at Riccarton on Saturday.

Gay Angel, a filly from the Bailoch mare. Many Thanks, will come in for special attention because of her relationship to the brilliant winner, Cadiz.

Tiber’s other runner will be Channel, a filly bred by Mr J. B. Douglas-Clifford from his useful Neptune mare, Scuppered. Tiber’s first draft of yearlings made a good impression at the national sales at Trentham last January, and five of his youngsters changed hands at an average of close to $5OOO. Four of the five have gone overseas, one of them to South Africa, and already there have been good reports about the

half-brother to Quetta .bought for $4OOO by a client of the Melbourne stable of K. Hilton. Top price of the Tiber II draft was $7OOO paid by a South African owner for a colt from the Te Mania Bloodstock’s mare, Nalei, dam also of the Australian winner, Sovereign Isle. Tiber H won five races in England, two of them in his first season, and there is a fair prospect that his early New Zealand runners will make immediate impressions.