WON FIRST TIME UP

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 109, 11 May 1933, Page 8

WON FIRST TIME UP

WAKATIPU IN AFRICA"

The success of one of Sir Joseph Robinson's New Zealand purchases extends the splendid record of Paper Money to still another country, this time South Africa. Altoi l.i'.t jc.n's Trenllum «aies >Sir Jobuph liobinson, then viciting New Zealand, purchased, three youngsters with .1 \ie\\ t" lacing them in South Afiiea. A Paper Money—Philomela coll, one oE the trio, attracted much notice on the Hark 111 the oouifcc ot Ins being prepared 111 South Africa lor lacinqf, and, an wns u-pdilt'll briolly by cable last month, he won with coloms up for tlie fiist time. Advice now to hand by mail shows that the colt, which has been named WaUatipu, did not record a straight-out win but Ile.id-llen.ted for fust place. The pcifoimjnce, however, was regcirded as exceptional, and there was something exceptional also in the dividends'returned b> the dead-heaters. The New Zealand edit lalunicd a pood double-figure dividend, and the still less fancied Gallant Girl (who shared tlrst place) returned almost a quarter of a thousand to the one lucky holder of a ten-shilling ticket on her chance of a win. • In one report of the meetiug, which was at Kenilworth, it is stated that the "ring" experienced a much-needed turn-up uflien the New Zealand two-year-old and Gallant Girl dead-heated ;in the Flying Middles—a race of six- furlongs (middle weights) with £170 as pme money (£23 to second and £11 to third). The outstanding feature of the afternoon's racing, the report slates, wns undoubtedly thc> stylishly promising debut of Sir J. B Robinson's New Zealand-bred two-year-old. This son of Paper Money has attracted a good deal of favourable notice on the training track, but owing 'to his entire lack of racing experience, and the fact that ho vai» required to start his career in the second division in a field ot twenty-two, few people were inclined to take him beiiously. Fifty yards from home thcro were four or five inoro or less 111 line, -with Gallant Girl holding a Might advantage. Here, however, Wnkntipu f-hot up on the rails, and, if a dead-heat was a fair verdict, there is not the slightest doubt that the New Zealand youngster had his head in front half a length past the post. A mistake was made in bracketing Mask with Gallant Girl for first place, but this was. rectilied subsequently. The mistake, it is stated, was not unnatural under the circumstances. The report adds: "Sir ,T. B. Robinson paid 150 guineas for Wakatipu in New Zealand, and this colt and the two other yearlings that accompanied him were ,the first thoroughbreds upon which the £100 import duty was levied. If our breeders were to produce a fair percentage of yearlings up to the standard of Wakatipu, there would be no need for a protective duty whatsoever." '■Arbiter" mentions in the "Cape Times" that the brilliant promise shown by Wakatipu—the bookmakers, he • suggests, may conveniently call him "What-a-tip"—recalls another imported yenrlins; that camo to South Africa, from South America, in 1000. This was Buluarte, by the English horse Batt. _____