Ill-fated sire’s fine record

Press, 17 April 1980, Page 24

Ill-fated sire’s fine record

By J, BOYLE The Awapunbtrained Grande Rosso will come in for much attention in the Marlborough Racing Club’s Forsyth Handicap, for two-year-olds, on SaturdayHe will be the only representative of the stallion Weyand, whose death earlier this month at the age of nine, is already seen as a blow to the New Zealand bloodstock industry,

Weyand has already been represented by five winners. One of the more notable of them is the Riccartontrained Just a Rebel, which is unbeaten in three starts, the most'recent'of them in the C.J.C, Champagne Stakes last Saturdays Another successful son of Weyand is Genoa, which won impressively for the Ray Verner stable at Ellerslie last Saturday week. Weyand, a half-brother by Prince Taj to eight winners of $1,750,000 in stakes, including Dr Fager (United States Horse of the Year) and Ta Wee (15 wins), was

imported by Mr John Malcolm from ’ his Rainbow’s End Stud at Ohaupo. The early death of Weyand was not Mr Malcolm’s first stroke of bad luck in a long association with the thoroughbred. When in partnership with his brother, Jim, at the Te Rapa Stud, Mr John Malcolm lost Admiral’s Luck after that horse had only three covering seasons. The extent of that loss became obvious to all when Mainbrace emerged as a true champion two years later, Mr John Malcolm later established Kinross Stud at Te Kauwhata, and his choice as foundation sire was a happy one. It was the Precipitation horse, Summertime, whose influence. as _ a sire and maternal grandsire was immense.

With intentions of retiring, Mr Malcolm sold Kinross, the stallion Azemann, and most of his other stock in a private deal believed to yield a seven-figure sum. But ib was not long before

he decided to have one more fling, hence L the establish* ment of the appropriately* named Rainbow’s End Stud. Mr Malcolm had decided to finally retire even before Weyand’s untimely death, and before he moves to Australia to settle on the Gold

Coast most of his horses Will be auctioned in Hamilton, In Jthe catalogue will be 15 yearlings by Weyand and 17 mares which were mated with Shat stallion last spring.