LOUGH NEAGH MISSING

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 84, 8 April 1936, Page 15

LOUGH NEAGH MISSING

NO RANDWICK ENGAGEMENT

On his recent form in the pre-Easter w.f.a. events in Sydney, Lough Neagh would have looked a formidable opponent in the way of rivals for the big handicaps and w.f.a. events at the A.J.C. Autumn Meeting, opening next Saturday; but when the nominations for Randwick are inspected Lough Neagh's name is found to be missing from all events. There are probably quite a number of owners in Australia and the Dominion who will be relieved of suspense in making this discovery. Lough Neagh, who has won the Rosehill Rawson Stakes and the Warwick Farm Chipping Norton Plate the last two Saturdays, beating the best of the w.f.a. horses offering, is a Queenslander and he is now seven years old, hardly a veteran yet. As a two-year-old he won the Queensland Sires' Produce Stakes; as a three-year-old he won the Queensland Guineas and the Queensland Derby; and in each of the succeeding seasons he has" always managed to win a good race. Last spring he once again demonstrated his right to be accepted as a brilliant sprinter and also a solid stayer, for he won a fast-run seven-furlong race, and in the space of a couple of weeks he led the field home in the Randwick Plate, two miles. He has contested 78 races to date, and his placed performances are as follows: —Twenty-one wins. 14 times second, and 10 times third.

When a yearling Lough Neagh was bought for 100 guineas by T. J. Brosnan, a Queensland trainer, under whose colours he has raced throughout, and his winnings must be well in advance of £10,000. He is by Bachelor's Persse, a son of Bachelor's Double, from' the Bezonian mare Terentia.' A double strain of Musket on the dam's side is a feature in the pedigree, one:through Hotchkiss and the other through Carbine.