Tutton horses to be dispersed in August

Press, 25 May 1977, Page 26

Tutton horses to be dispersed in August

Mr and Mrs Jack Tutton.; who have been two of Canterbury’s most prominent > owners and successful thor-1 oughbred breeders for some! 30 years, will race on ai much reduced scale, if at all, after the end of the present! season. They recently sold their |i New Zealand Oaks winner,. Natter, to Mr R. C. Man-' ning’s Tudor Park Stud inj Auckland and have entered! all but one of their other/ horses for this year’s South; J‘land Thoroughbred Sale, to; be held in Christchurch in'; August. [i Natter, dam of the. brilliant but ill-fated sprinter | Shudup, was sold in foal to" King Canary. Mr and Mrs Tutton will! retain only their 25-year-oldj matriarch Shoal, one of Canterbury's most successful middle distance mares in the! 19505. which counted ai Canterbury Cup and a Dune-! din Cup amongst her sue-! cesses. Shoa! is not being bred; from these days but there i will be a good home for her! Xvith the Tutton’s for as long' as she lives. Mr and Mrs Tutton bred! Shoal from Belle Fille, al Beau Pere mare closely re-j Jated to Tara King and Low-! tenberg, both New Zealand! Derby winners for the! O’Neill family of Wanganui j in the 19305. Shoal’s younger half-1 brother, McCool, a massive)

;son of Balloch, also made ; many contributions to a sue-, cessful family record. Shoal appeared to leave a! |filly of matching talents ini Dhow (by Final Orders) but! this speedster died at three i years. Early that season she I won the New Zealand ‘Guineas at Trentham, and .the Lowland Stakes at Mas- ' terton, and the John Grigg (Stakes at Ashburton. i One of the most interesting of the Tutton entrants iat this year’s South Island i sale will be Graber, a two-year-old gelding by Onciidium from Natter. Mr Tutton named this (youngster after an American 'friend who raced the New (Zealand-bred Cadiz with much success in the States, land has made six other successful purchases in New (Zealand. Two of the Tutton-owned ; entrants for the sale are by (the Te Parae Stud’s young American-bred Imperialist — (the two-year-old filly Ziggy land a weanling bay colt out iof Shoal’s daughter, Dory. I Tackle, winner of two I races in the green and white (Tutton checkers this season, |is certain to engage the (interest of both racing i owners and breeders. This (four-year-old Final Orders (mare, which counts a victory over Sir James on her ; record this year, is the first living foal of Beach Bag dejscending from Shoal’s dam, J Belle Fille.

Entries for this year’s South Island sale total 171, and Mr Geoff Bruhns, of Pyne Gould Guiness Ltd, -said yesterday that North Island vendors would be represented in the catalogue. ; There are 34 entries in the (yearling section, one being a (colt by Silver Dream from Etoile. On the list of two-year-olds is a colt by Hermes from the successful Dogger Bank mare, My Greatest bred in South Otago by Mr H. G. C. McLachlan. Blend, a winning son of Pakistan 11, will become something of an institution at the sale. He is to be offered for the third time at this year’s sale. He was bought as a two-year-old by a syndicate which included Australians for $7OOO. Two years ago, when the Australian members of the syndicate wished to quit their interests, he was offered again and sold for $12,500. Blend has placed form from the Gore stable of E. A. Winsloe, this season. Blend won once as a five-year-old last season, four times at four years, and three times at three.