NAME OF HIGH RANK

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1932, Page 4

NAME OF HIGH RANK

CORRECT FACTS STATED

A story has-been published recently concerning a clash in the claiming of the nUme; of,' High Rank for two yearlings in the;.S6uth ; . Island;...but the. true facts of the ,case;are verydifferent from what have be.eni'relat|d. Indeed, there are now actu-ally;-jrsvo giving■■"youngsters"registered.: with the name, and for one of them the name will? have .to .be.ichanged. For the i'■brown:filly by Day Comet Sailors-Hope: foaled in 1929 Sir Charles Clifford was allowed the name Streauilinev and? it ,'was this youngster that died,not the 1930.broivnfilly,full-sister for whom! the. name of High Rank was" claimed Andl allowed. This year Mr. W. 0. Butlterfovd: also; claimed the name of High, Bank for; his-;:c6lt.. i by--;.Chje£. Buler- frohv; Comedy Q^ee^/and^bwing^tpJthe .Same of' Sir; Charles-Clifford's: fiHy.sbeing read as High: Ba^,--itvWas •UlbwedV;:'.Tnis;mistu,ke was' subsequently, discovered '• ,and the; New Zealand .fiacingr. Conference- has now written Mr,"'Rutherford; pointing but the error and requesting.him to select:another name, as1Sir :,Gharlel Clifford: held a prior claim to Higl»tlUl.nk;i'-?{-:"«ij--':O:.:-^--••..<-■.■">...-It^ay.be.,added; that Sir, Charles has recently.' named,-the latest .offspring of Sailor's;Hbpe';.a: 1931 bay coltialsb by Day Comet;;-the.yname": "allowed being Streamhne, :thp as what it was intended to call the: 1929 filly'that. died . ■