JUVENILE CLASSICS

Evening Post, Issue 73, 23 September 1936, Page 15

JUVENILE CLASSICS

WELL-BRED WINNERS

AIWAI AND GUINEA FOWL

The first juvenile classics of the new season were decided last Saturday, and the winners of both were by proved sires of early speed. The Avondale Stakes winner, Aiwai, is a daughtei of the defunct Chief Ruler, being one of the last crop of The Tctrarch horse; and the John Grigg Stakes winner Guinea Fowl, is a daughter of Paper Money, now 20 years old and at present remotely stationed in Central Otago. Since the days of Absurd, Paper Money and Chief Ruler have been the Dominion's outstanding sires of speed in two-year-olds, and thenposition remains unchallenged, though the present season will of course see the end of Chief Ruler's juvenile perICThf Chief Rulers have had a rather ilispitil IllflUss mmsm Avondale Stakes. ALL-ENGLISH PEDIGREE. Ml isiisiss wmmm BHii iSJflftl MB cross. MADOWLA'S DESCENDANT IfglSSsp of the present century. Madowla was I2^t«Te».7sT e ,| T^arr^So^ln, &S burg? and Diadem. Madowla was a ffi prolific and wonderfully consistent matron, for from WO to l»ua she produced a foal every season and every one of them won races, most .of them good races. Their number, included Quarryman, Glenpwlet, KirrieSfeuir,^o^a ds co Cn ce ndorthe thS| Sir George ever owned. SShC^aflt^sTy 1 S lengths However, she did not tram on and her racing career was closed after her Champagne Stakes win at the C.J.C. Easter Meeting. At stud she croduced among others Royal StagP (winner of Great Northern Derby), Moorfowl, Red -Hind, and Wild Hind (winner of Dunedm GCaJe?cailzie, the dam of Guinea Fowl; was by Autumnus out of Kirriemuir being the last but one of KirnemuuV eleven offspring, and she is a full-sister to Wild Hind, .the dam of Wild Chase, to whom Guinea Fowl is therefore a full-sister in blood. She never raced. Her first get, to Day Comet, was Swoop, who also did not race, and her next, to Jericho, was Trumpet Blast, who ran promisingly.as a twound three-year-old, but has since failed to place his name on the winners record. Battue, her third foal (now Ihree years old), has not raced, and Guinea Fowl is her fourth foal. She missed the following season, but is due to foal this year to Night Raid. She is owned by her breeder, Mr G. R. Macdonald, who is a brother-in-law to Sir Charles Clifford, and who had not enjoyed success on the Turf prior to by the way., was stationed for a couple of seasons near Christchurch, and he was freely patronised by the Stonyhurst Stud. Among his first gets there were Wild Chase and PaDer Slipper, two of the best juvenifis of las? season, Wild Chase being first winner of the Ashburton classic His second lot from his Stonyhurst mates look like being equally as good, for not only was, Guinea Fowl victor on Saturday, but the runner-up, Card Player, is another of the results from his matings with Stonyhurst mares. Card Player, who is owned by Sir Charles Clifford, is out of the Solferino—Tinihanga mare Shuffle, thus being a full-sister to Paper Slipper, and her favouritism for Saturday s race would tend to show that she is possessed of similar brilliance to that which her brother revealed in his races last season. Paper Slipper is believed by Sir Charles's trainers (H. and A. Cutts) to have been one of the most brilliant youngsters they have ever had through their hands.