Tui’s Lass dies

Press, 26 September 1986, Page 28

Tui’s Lass dies

By

W. R. CARSTON

The good race mare, Tui’s Lass, haemorrhaged and died while foaling at Inglewood Stud last weekend. The foal the 11-year-old daughter of Gate Keeper and Tuiway was carrying was also lost. Tui’s Lass, which was prepared for her racing by J. S. McKay at Wingatui, was one of the top South Island fillies in the late 19705. Her three starts as a two-year-old, in the 1977-78 season, yielded two wins. She was successful in the Champagne Stakes at Wingatui and the Plunket Stakes at Invercargill. In her three-year-old season she failed to earn a stake in only two of her 17 races. The most important of her six wins that season was in the N.Z. St Leger Stakes at Trentham. Her other successes were in the John Grigg Stakes, at Ashburton, the Geraldine Challenge Stakes, at Orari, the Show Gate Stakes, at Washdyke, the Princess Mellay Stakes, at Gore,

and the Nelson Jockey Club’s Newmans Travel Challenge Stakes. Tui’s Lass did not win as a four-year-old but her five placings from nine starts in her last season brought in $5925. Those eight wins and 14 minor placings in the colours of her Oxford breeders, Jack McArthur and his son, Alastair, were worth $58,740. The father and son combination are partners in the racing of the first foal out of Tui’s Lass, the Imposing mare, Tui’s Imp, which won once and was placed in six of her other 12 starts last season from Helen Preston’s Riccarton stable. But her second foal, a colt by Beaufort Sea, was sold at the National Yearling Sales at Trentham this year to Mr D. L. Freedman, of Melbourne, for $27,800. The foal which Tui’s Lass was carrying at the time of her death was by Western Symphony, which is based at the Chequers Stud, Cambridge. This season she was to have been covered again by Beaufort Sea.