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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1932, Page 4

with such a colt, unless by way o£ experiment, as in order r to ''obtain the Musket— St. Simonl cross, which is'incorporated through 'Archieatown (a great grandson of St. Simon) and Westmere (a grandson of Musket). ■ ■ . N Beauty, the dam of Town Beauty, is a 1909 brown mare by San Bemo (son of St. Leger) from Misfortune, whoso pedigree is unknown/ There'are at least two mares named Misfortune on the "Stud Bo.ok," but neither is the dam of Beauty, who" was foaled years after the two "Stud Book" mares were dead. Beauty did a little racing over fences- in her breeder, Mr. F. A. Hinton's, colours, and won a maideri hurdles at Takapuna in 1914., Mr. T.Hinton, of Eureka, *in the Waikato, bred from her afterwards and she has left several rei gistered progeny. The first.was Miss Beauty, to Quin Abbey, in 1917, and then came- Beau-Abbey (to Quin Abbey) in 1921, Beauty Spot (to Archiestown) in 1922, Town 'Belle (to Archiestown—Merema colt) 'in 1924,' and Town, Beauty in 1926. Miss Beauty- and Beauty Spot both saw the racecourse,'but neither ever filled a place. Town Belle, an older full-sister to Towp Beauty, is now undergoing a preparation for racing at Ellerslie. Town Beauty waa bred by Mr. T. Hinton, but he has done all his\ racing in the colours of his present owner, Mr. C. Wallace, of Papatoetoe. He was three times second in the last three of six starts last season (including a second to Billy Boy in the AJt.C. Hunt Cup), and in a dozen starts this season was twice a winner at the Auckland Winter Meeting (including the A.R.C. Hunt Cup) and was three times placed at the recent Wellington Meeting (including a second half, a head behind Nukumai.in -the' July Steeples). As a result of., these performances ho deserves hiSf'iposition, as ujnp' of the >best lightSWt Prospects in the Grand National Steeplechatey in Which H, Dirtieu will again ride, him, and his recent w6rk has given some encouragement to'"those vho are backing on his," chance.