PARIS MAKES GOOD

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 12, 14 July 1931, Page 4

PARIS MAKES GOOD

AT BEST AS A JUMPER

OF ST. SIMON DESCENT

Paris, winner-'of the Wellington Steeplechase on Saturday, has had a comparatively short career over fences, but the results nave teen eminently satisfactory. Prior to taking, on the country, he had raced j bver hurdles for about eight months, for a jingle success at the last Grand National Meeting, and that as the result of a stewards' inquiry, Membo, who finished, aheadiSi him, having crossed him when recover- ' ing after a bad jump at the last fence. He made his debut, as a steeplechaser! at Otauiau in March, and since, then has won three cross-country races in nine further Paris was bred by his owner, Mr. W. T. Hazlett, of Invercargill, and as a yearling was sent "to the late S. Waddell to break in at Greenmeadows.: He was produced only once, at the Napier Park Spring Meeting, as a two-year-old. ■ He was then turned out; and in tha following winter was handed to F. J. M'Kay to train at Invercargill. His first race as a three : year-old was at the Riverton.Spring Meeting, and athisnext start he ran second in a trial stakes at' Win ton in November.-, Before the season closed he.had won one race and dead-heated in another, and had twice been second, for £255 in stakes* ... :.He failed to-notch, a success as a four-year-old, but four seconds and-three thirds earned.£lß2 10s-for his owner.- As a- five-year-old !•ho. was once third for £20 m stakes, ;but-he was produced on only-four occasions. . The next season was, a busier one for -him, as he had thirteen starts, and he won the Kelburn Handicap on the third day at the Wellington Summer Meeting, heating Stanchion and Filosol. Jhat was Ms only stake-winning effort, arid it added another £200 to his. record. Last season> as-' a seven-year-old, .he raced on sixteen occasions for two wins in hack races, one.'lbeing at Otautau and the other at the C.J.C. Autumn Meeting. He registered two seconds in open company at the Invercargill Winter Meeting, and then made his debut as a hurdler at:the Dunedin, Winter Meeting/ His. first placed effort in this department was at the last .Wellington Winter-Meeting. FIRST WIN. OVER FENCES. jEarly in the present season he opened his winning account over fences when he scored in the Spreydon Hurdles on the second, day,at the Grand National-Meeting from Membo and' Gay Fashion: "On the 'first ;day he had been second to LTyii Dv Jnthe-Trial-Hurdles. Subsequently he ran second to-Membo in the Spring Hurdles at the New Zealand Cup Meeting. Early last March he had a short course of country schooling, and was produced in a steeplechase .at Otautau, but. baulked after being stopped by another horse. At his next start he won at an outside price at Rivertpn, ond in. eight races over the timber ijrice he has completed the course on three occasions-for two wins and a:fourth. He ias been .successful at his. last ; .two attempts, on the final day at Bllerslie and on Saturday in the Wellington.Steeplechase. ,;.His.record reads:— . . - .•...•"■■ "■■■:■•'■■ .-,";••- Starts. First;: Second. Third.--M 2 years-.... 1 .^- ;. —' . — ■ At. 3 years ....14... 2 -2.'.■■.— ■At •■*"■ years „... 16 ..— ..'.4 3 At S years' «i. 4' ~- — ■ — ' 1 AX 6 years ».».13 1 — " i— ilt 7 years «„-. 16 2.4 . '2 / At 8 years .... 20 A 2 '■ 1 totals ' »».. 84 9 12 '7 His. stake-earnings during the period fcmount to £2297 10s, of which £1230 has been earned to date during the present season.. ,■ • •-. - - ... . -.:-::■■'■ f :OF ST. SIMON DESCENT. :-. A feature of Paris's-success/Was .that it credits the third win/inthe:thrqe principal jumping events • this Winter'l to descendants in the -male line: oi St.:-Simon. The sire, of Paris vis; Solferino, :3 son of Soliman and.-. a grandson of St. Simon. At one period, it-would hare; been regarded as highly questionable: to "expect horses traoing to the. highly-strung. Galopin to win honours as jumpers,: and the same view was taken in regard to his-great son .St. Simon, who, like his sire,-was of fiery temperament. However, the, Galopin and,\S't. .Simon, families'; have long;.-since silenced, the. critics, arid during, recent '.Dominion such, sires as Soult, Maniapoto, Finland, Spalpeen, Quin Abbey, Chesterfield, Day. Comet, Lueullus, and now'Solferino have definitely established the line as the best jumping male strain that we possess. ■■'-.; ■.-.-..•.•-.■■.-. ■■-.-- Paris's leading lines are:— -,-■ ■- . Stre: Solferlno (foalod 1905), by Soliman (son of St. Simon)..frpjn Little Red Spinner, by Bonnet Itougo (son of Isonomy) from Little Twin, by Teitius (son of Marquis of Carabas and .igreatrgrandson of Orlando) from Polpettl, by Macaroni (son of Sweetmeat and grandson of Gladiator) from Molly Carew, by Wild Dayrell (son of Ion). Tamily .No. 4... . ■'<Dam: Dlrectolre = (foaled 1907), byWalrlki fspn-of Soult.and a successful racehorse) from Queen Anna, by St. Leger (son of Boricaster aid-one.of the best of sires) from' Anna, by Musfiet.(son of Toxopblllte) from.Florin, by ■Tradiicer (son of The libel) from Rupee (im-ported--.from France), by Dollar. Family No. '5. ""'" ..''.' . ~,... 1 Paris combines successful jumping, strains ■"on both' Sides of his pedigree, but although he _ has. the valuable St." Simon heritage through his sire he owes his leaping ability probably in. greater measure-to his , dam. In whose veins coursed several very potent' cplonial. strains; Directoire's first offspring, tp Danube, was Frenchman, a tisefnl steeplechaser of a few seasons pack; and later to Solferinb she produced, in'addition to Paris, the year older Apache and the year younger Taramoa, both- of whom were also racing at Trentham on Saturday. : Directoire's two offspring subsequent to Taramoa were Abelard and Dark Marie," both to Tractor, but neither appears yet to have raced. In 1928 she •jras covered by Woodend, but before foaling "broke a leg and had to be destroyed.