NEW SPRINT WINNERS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1934, Page 8

NEW SPRINT WINNERS

MOATOA AND LADY RONALD

Lady Eonald and Moaloa, the two open sprint winners at Hastings last week, are horses of the type who steadily pay their way as they go along without aiming at any of the special prizes.- Each 'of them has been content to work v throng)v hack class first, and to leave open company till hack eligibility has gone. Both, however, have been open winners within a month ■ o£' thjeir promotion. , .'.■'.' MOATOA- , / Moatoa; is • now eight years old, so he may not go .much further,, out''while he remains in Jjis present form it is. quite likely, that lie will win; more races when the open-company'in which he races is riot too select. He made his first appearance in open" class at'Foxton, just' a week exactly before he won the -.-Final Handicap at 'Hastings; ■; ;. , : . v:: -j;.. ; : . . It- was nottillhe was.a late fjthr«e-yeapi old 'fhai lloatoa b.egan:.Ms gracing,, but-he had been ,a rather late foai.,: A third was his best return in. his, first,two 'seasons, but he opened his winning account the next term .at Opunake. scoring at thd'hyo meetings held there that season and' also at;Hastings'in the winter.' His only success',as a six-year-old : was at 'Waverley, and he failed to win a race last season, biit this Reason ;he ;has been five times successfuW«t -Taranaki, Opunake, Feilding, Egmont, and Hawie's Bay. AU his wins have been' over sprint distances, though he went close io winning a seven-furlong race at Bulls, He: failed at/ Wanganui%, when tried at a- middle distance. His record reads:— . . , . ■ . ■ ;' . . '-~ . ■

; Moatoa has done all his racing in the colours of his breeder; 'My; J., T. Wade, who trains.him. himself, at .Stratford; ,He: is.a bay gelding by P.otoa,..'a -stoutly-bred descendant of. Musket and the sire, with limited opportunities, ■; of several Rood haridicappers,- including Te Monanuj, Hipp,' etc. His dam Alice Montrpse is by Husbandman (son-of Treadmill) from a mare named Handmaiden,! -whose': '-breeding is unascertajnable but who probably belongs to one of the nutrierous . old Taranaki stocks whose records were never properly kept. Mr. Wade raced Alice Montrose for several seasons, but her *pnly win was as rank outsider at a Taranaki Meeting 14 years ago.. Moatoa is Alice Montrose's first foal, and the only other to have been registered, named Tangoio, by Kuapapa, does not appear yet to-have raced. LADY RONALD. Lady Ronald has all along been a rather more .solid performer than Moatoa, and she is one from wliom one might expect still better things. In her early days she was a little difficult to get away from the | barrier, but she has always been resolute; at the finish' of her races. It is possible that she will do well in open company, as she revealed finishing- ability equal to the best of them —and they were not a bad lot—at Hastings last week.

At first Lady Ronald was raced by her breeder, ilr. D. McLachlan, of Mount Bruce, jMastcrton,- but she failed, as a tivoi year-old and early three-year-old and was bought in January of the latter ypar by the Opaki tiainer B. Burgess, who" shortly afterwards won a novice eventtwith hoi'at Xcteori, her vanquished including Qtoupier, (hen having Ilk first start and a big favourite. As a four-year-old she was three limes successful, and "last season she won four raccs.^ After <i few starts early this season finclulling a second at Trentlinm in October) she was eased of!, and in March Burgess disposed of lior to: My. I. ]}. Cameron, of Martinborough. She .ran a second at Wairsirapa first time up in her new colours, anU since then she has been n winner at Paliiatua (S'/b furlongs), Bulls, and Hastings. When she won the Hei'ctaunga Handicap last Thursday she was making her debut in open companj Her record reads: —■

For her breeder Lady Ronald wpn only £.40 in stakes, but for her latest owner she has already ' earned1 '£222. The remainder of her 'winnings were collected for Burgess. . ... ;" : ... .

She is now only, six shears' old '-ahd -k better than'she has ever been. She is a

bay mare by the X.Z. Derby winner Black Eonald. (a son of Jlagpie), whose opportunities at the stud, :as in the case of ftotoa, have been vciy limited, his best offspring yet probably having been Hazoor. Her dam is the King Mark mare Lady Evelina, who traces to the highly successful Pulchra taproot, which has been responsible in Xew. Zealand for ■ such notable horses as Uniform, ■ Field Battery, Cruciform, Formosan, Loughrea, Jlermin, Agrion, Paddi . Eye: (Queensland Derby and Cup), ete.^ as well as others' of lesser note, as Inferno, Bonnie Xurse, Informal, Jemidar (Perth Cup), Tori, Arena, etc.. Lady Evelina raced only as a'five-year-old herself, bringing off a surprise win for Mr. McLachlan at on -New Year's Daj-, 1924, at the first of her three .appearances. Lady Eonald is the only one of her offspring to represent her on. the Turf, a later filly to Acre not having been trained.

• ■'■■' " "Stakes. ■ .••"■ Starts.J ; >:;jWinsV>-:, £. At :3 -years ......... 1 ■ •'. — •"•. '; At 4 years ......... 7 :'.;/. —- ' 10 At 5 years 21 ": . 3 . •'" : 300 At: 6 years .......... 11 .' l--r : 90. At 7 years .......... .0 .,.i . . 5 At 8 j^ears ......... .21 . .^ .• 5,,-;V 333 ■ Totals ../Or;.;',. 3 ' :: .,£760

Starts. At 2 years 7 At .3 years 20 AtM years 20 At 5 years ii At 0 years 2-1 Totals 9!) Stakes. ■Wins.,. r £.; •1- '"■ 'V 1263 . >'212 :s ..24.nii 11'. iteS05; r