FIRST TRACTOR IN NORTH

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 144, 15 December 1933, Page 6

FIRST TRACTOR IN NORTH

There is only one new name among the five juvenile acceptors for the.Prince of Wales Handicap at Napier Park tomorrow, but it is an interesting one. The youngster is Trackman, wjio. will be the first of the stock of Tractor to race since this sire came to the North Island. ■ , Tractor, who is an imported horse by unbeaten The Tetrarch from Gravitation, a full-sister to ; the'staying*. William the Third, was formerly stationed in. Otago, where he was owned by Mr. L. C. Hazlett, and among many useful horses he got there were Pink Terrace (New Zealand Oaks), Overhaul, Water ■ Power,- Camisader, Valves Top Gear, Wingatui, High. Speed, etc. Just over two'years ' ago he was bought by the Raupare breeder Mr. F. B. Donnelly, and his first crop in Hawke's Bay is only now appearing. Trackman, who will ,be' the h'rst to "break the ice", for him in the north, is a two-year-old brown gelding from the King's Guest mare Queen's Maid, and he is a half-brother to Joe, who had a lot of toe but did not stick. He is owned by Mrs. J. Maedouald, of Napier.