Famous stud to move to Canterbury

Press, 25 October 1978, Page 21

Famous stud to move to Canterbury

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J. J. BOYLE

I he famous Chelandry Stud, developed in Southland b\ the Hazlett family, is to be relocated. Next year it will become part of the thoroughbred scene in Canterbury, its destinies guided by Mrs Mary Dailey, a daughter of the late Mr W. E. Hazlett.

Mr W. E. Hazlett, who died last autumn, took overj the Chelandry Stud from his father, Mr W. T. Hazlett, 1 who established the stud on the Taramoa property near: Invercargill about 70 years' ago. ‘•I was determined not to let Chelandry pass from the South Island scene, bringing to an end all the effort, expense, and dedication of two generations of my family,” Mrs Dailey said yesterday. Mrs Dailey, who will relocate the stud on her 112acre property at Prebbleton, within 20 minutes’ drive of the centre of Christchurch will bring considerable skills to bear on her new venture. She was a noted show ring rider and until she mar-| ried and came to live in Canterbury she lived on the Taramoa property which embraces the present Chelandryi Stud. 1

Earlier this year sht finished a term as president of the New Zealand Horse Society — the first womar to hold such an office. Mrs Dailey has bought from her father’s estate more than 60 thoroughbreds including the English-brec stallion Approval, which wil b- brought from Southlanc to his new home before the 1979 covering season. Mi John Surgenor. the stuc groom, will also come nortf to continue his associatior with the family. The eldest of Approval’: New Zealand representative: are now yearlings. Approval, a handsome sor of Alcide, was bought foi Chelandry after a brief stuc career in Australia. Austra lians were left wondering ii they had let another prizi stallion prospect go with the emergence of Salamander Opposition, and others tc

. win leading three-year-old races. j Salamander was unluckj I not to win a V.R.C. Derbv land recently won the ($60,000 Toorak Handicap in ; Melbourne. | Opposition’s wins have included the Sandown Guineas. ! Approval was rated sec !ond only to the grea ; Nijinsky in the English Twoi Yeaf-Old Free Handicaf j after having won the Ob i server Gold Cup. As a three 'year-old he won the Dante Stakes by four lengths. Mrs Dailey is to lease e 1 yearling half-brother by Ap proval to the famous ’chasei 1 Loch Linnhe to her mother ! and will retain some de iscendants of Chelandry’: three foundation mares, Sim per, Directoire, and Sprig ol [Erin to breed from ir (Canterbury. Arrangements have alsc i been completed to offer foi i unreserved sale in January t

‘ catalogue of untried stock including yearlings, and twoi year-olds. This sale will be (held on the stud property in Southland on January 30. Seven yearlings in the catalogue will include four fillies and two colts by Approval, one of the colts; being from Loch Erin, a sis-' ■ ter of Loch Linnhe. Another yearling to be offered is a 1 colt by Sovereign Prince; from Bellmond, a half-sister ■ bv Lomond to Eiffel Tower, '! winner of a Wellington Cup. an eventful Great Northern I Steeplechase and the Grand •jNational Hurdles twice in ithe Hazlett colours. , 1 Two-year-olds in the cata(logue include a brother to ilLoch Linnhe, and one of the top lots from the older entries will be the wellperformed Lady Claymore, a I seven-year-old by Lomond •I from the high class mare .’Apathy.