SPORTING

Dunstan Times, Issue 3464, 7 April 1930, Page 5

SPORTING

At a sale of trolling stock held at Rongiora last week the bay gelding Sonoma was sold for £4lO, brown stallion Sonoma Harvester, for £230, brood marc Gwenchild, with a foal at foot, for £2OO, a yearling bay colt by Sonoma Harvester for £IGO, and a bay gelding, two years old, by the same sire, for £IOO, Overhaul is improving rapidly and should race well at Lawrence at Beaumont.

Tho death is reported at Wyndham of Comic Song (Winkle —Scotch Melody). He was a brilliant sprinter, winning the C.J.C. Steward Handicap in 1925 and 19-20. He was never a sound horse and had to be nursed. When the late John Brown, better known as “Mr Baron” to the racing world, died lie was the largest individual producer of thoroughbreds in the world, his brood marcs numbering 210, and his stallions seven. Yet only a small percentage of the foals ever saw a racecourse, for Mr Brown did not breed to sell, and never had more than 20 horses in training.

The imported mare Simper, who has the record/of producing eleven foals, is likely to be represented in the two-year-old contest next year with a lilly, the sire of which is Chief Ruler. As the dam of .A fleet ion, Gold Light,- Razzle Dazzle, Beacon Light, Dazzling Light, Lucky Light, and Speed Light, Simper stands out well as a stud success, and it is computed that the combined earnings of her produce run out to over £30,000,

The programme for the Winter Meeting of the Southland Racing Club has been issued, and on May 14th and 15th; £3,170 will be given away in stakes. The late G. G. Stead, one of the best judges of racing ever seen in New Zealand, maintained that races run over seven furlongs and a mile and a((iiarter were (he hardest to win. hunters should remember that, when trying to pick the winner of the Great Easter Handicap.