Yallem sold for stud

Press, 24 June 1978, Page 20

Yallem sold for stud

Special Corres. Dunedin Yallem, the winner of five races for his East Taieri owner, Mr Ces Wallis, and trainer, Jim Pankhurst, has been sold to a Waikato stud after injuring l. fetlock. Yallem, a five-year-old stallion did not race this season. His last win was in the Beaumont Handicap, a class 3 and 4 race over 2200 m at Wingatui in December, 1976. Yallem was bred by Mr Wallis from a mating of Mellay and P’noli, ? half-sister by Panair, to Coaltown, winner of the Royal Auckland Cup in 1953. Styline, whiih has undergone surgery to have a bone chip removed from a knee, is back in work with Pankhurst. The three-year-old brother of Dandyman was unplaced in two starts earlier in the season. Dandyman. which has had his racing interrupted several times by a leg problem, is <iue to resume work at the end of the month. The rising eight-year-old entire last raced on March 13. Dandyman’s two wins and five minor placings have contributed $6285 to Mr Wallis’s stakes tally of $34,410 this season. Candyboy has contributed $25,345 from six wins and two placings, Prodigal, $5720 (four wins and five placings) ' I Kapai. $lO6O (one win and two placings). Mr Wallis's four stake earners have amassed 13 wins and 14 lacings in 54 starts. Dandyman has now won 15 races and $35,285. Candyboy, two years younger, has stake earnings of $39,270 from 14 wins and 10 placings. The Wallis - Pankhurst stable has had two other runners this season, Styline and Masque. Another is due to start racing on the South Canterbury winter circuit. He is Toll Gate, a two-year-old gelding by Gate Keeper from the Harker mare, Donna Danella, bought by Mr Wallis at the 1976 South Island sale.