Strathconan’s recent purchase due this month
Votecatcher, a wellperformed sprinting son of Majority Blue, purchased recently in England by Mr Bill Grant for his Strathconan Stud at Washdyke, will be flown out of London on July 20 after 14 days quarantine at Newmarket. The winner of five races from only 14 starts, Votecatcher was selected by Mt Grant on a recent visit tc England and the purchase was negotiated soon aftei Ryan Price had brought the chestnut back into work. Votecatcher was placed in three of his five starts at
two years. Then he won his first "four starts as a three-year-old. His victories inclined the Cecil Frail Stakes at Haydock in a course record for the distance of approximately a mile. Votecatcher’s two starts at four years produced a win and a third, and earned a Timeform rating of 115. Votecatcher was sired by Majority Blue, the champion' English sprinter of 1965, the winner of nine races including the Fairview and Diadem Stakes. Majority Blue was retired > to stud in 1966 and is the sire
of winners of 136 races and £182.000 Majority Blue’s sire Major Portion was himself a top two-year-old and a successful sire, and is represented in New Zealand by Brigadier Gerard’s half-brother Brigade Major, Major Victory, and Sergeant Major. Pretty Breezy, the dam of Votecatcher, did not race be- ■ cause of injury, but has produced three winners besides the Strathconan Stud’s recent purchase. i Pretty Breezy was by Signal Light, a successful sire : of sprinters which has been
represented at stud 'in New Zealand by Globe of Light, I the maternal grand sire of* the outstanding race mare ' Show Gate. Votecatcher’s graddam. Jolie Breeze, won at one of her only two starts, and has produced North Cone, win- i ner of six races in England and two in the United States, where he is now meeting with success as a sire. This is also the family of I Musidora, winner of the One Thousand Guineas an<j the Oaks, and Le Becau. winner: of the French Two Thousand i Guineas.
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