RACING AT GISBORNE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 30, 4 August 1931, Page 13

RACING AT GISBORNE

HUNTING SONG'S RECORD

Piogeny of Hunting Song occupied all three places in the Swarthmoor Trial Handicap at the Poverty Bay Hunt Club's Meeting on Saturday, as a glance at their names will suffice to show. 'They were Sunny Song, Hunting Star, and Hunting Mobs. A week earlier there had been a' similar result in the Turanganui Plate, an-1 other novice race, the plnce-fillers on' that' occasion being Sunny Sky, Sunny Song, i and Black Songster. In Saturday's race the three horses wei c just-turned three-year-.olds. Sunny Song, from Merry Roe's Sunny Lake daughter, Sunny Roe, is the full sister to Sunny Sky, and is also raced by Mr. E. N. Fitzgerald, who holds her on lease fiom her breeder, Mr. V. Hall. Hunting Star is from the Aberbrothock mare Arbroatk, a half-sister to well-performed Royal Blood, and also to 'Wallaby (dam of Wallarub) and Sangfroid (dam of Coon Song), Nand is thus a half-brother to Polar and a full brothei' to Huntingdon. He was bred by Mr. ..T. -B. Moiris and is owned by Mr. C. G. Ancell, who also races Huntingdon. Hunting - Moss "is from the Demosthenes mare Pandemos; a half-sister to Gold Bound, the dam (also to Demosthenea) of Demagogue and Duo. She is raced by her breeder, Mr. E. Loisel. Hunting Song's stock had conspicuous success through the four days' lacing recently on the East Coast. This sire is stationed in the district, and, of course, he was bound to have large representation in many of the events; ncvertlwleps the propoition of wins and places credited to him was out of the ordinary. In Saturday's Hwmthmoor Trial, to take an instance, only one of the five unplaced horses was by Hunting1 Song; while in the pie\ioiis- Saturday's novice event not one of six unplaced horses irai .by, him.. .