FOUR-YEAR-OLD BEST

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1936, Page 13

FOUR-YEAR-OLD BEST

QUEENSLAND CUP WINNER

■■Running totheiront a furlong from home in the -Queensland Cup, which wm decided over two miles at Ascot (Brisbane) last. Saturday;' week;. the .Rivoli—Margaret- Morris . horse" Lominga won going away, emphasising once again -the- fact that a good four-year-old with a light weight is always a hard "horse to defeat over a distance. Young Crusader brought-the truth: of the dictum forcibly to the .notice of Raridwick patrons, Wotan emphasised the lesson.at Fleming-ton., and at Ascot came what might almost be termed the'confirmation. ,- ■ .■■"■■'■' o ■For a St; Leger winner Lommga was well in aY 7.12, but his supporters were able to. secure a good price about 1 him. Ridden a. clever race by the former Sydney horseman L. Sawyer, he triumphed in a- race that ,was marred by a deal of interference in the middle stages, and credited his trainer (A. Anderson) with his first two miles Cup win, making him some amends for .his misfortune in 1931, when his candidate. ■ Rowladdie, broke down a furlong from home with the Brisbane Cud race'in his keeping. •" ■ ' •;■ Anderson and Miss- H. .Stephens,, a Brisbane ■ sportswoman, paid 300 .guineas for Lominga as a yearling, and, although "he did "not show much form as a two-yearrold, last' season he ran Auto Bui to a head in the Q-T-C. Derby.' With that colt out of the way he won the St. Leger Stakes in May with-ease,,but a few days afterwards was easily, defeated into fourth place- in the /Brisbane Cup : won. by Lough Neagh; He was then put aside arid set for the Queensland Cup. ' Lominga is by Rivoli from Margaret Morris,' arid' he "was bred at Canning Downs near Warwick,-his breeder being Mr. J." H.: S.. Barries, in whose colours Rivoli raced when he won his AJC Derby and later finished second to Bitalli in the Melbourne Cup as a four-year-old." Margaret Morris is a sister to Eurythmic, so that ■ there is ho doubting "the-, staying strain in the Cup winner. She was by Eudor.us from Bob Cherry, by Bobadil from Ardea Cdam of Bobsdea, a noted performer of other years'in Victoria) by Wallace from Dan ac, by_ Calma from Duenna" Cdam of; Amberite, winner of (he A.J.C: and; Victoria. Derbies, fee Caulfleld ".Cup, .and^ the A.J.C. St. Leger), by Lecturer from Signora (imp., dam of Cardigan, winner of the AJC. Metropolitan), -by Newcastle from Actress (ancestress of . Amoums arid Piastre), by.StockwelL . -The- riders of -the,, .three-year-olds Brownfelt (V. .O'Brien) and Six Fifty (K. JefEera). in the Queensland Cup were strongly of the opinion that the interference cost them the race; and as each colt came home without show-ing-any signs of weakness there might be something in what they say; but the fact remains that .Lominga was always well up, and when asked for his effort in the straight ran- on'very truly to' win-. going away V ."•■"•" ':'": .

The Tremola stallion Stingo, among the horses recently purchased in England for export to the Soviet Government, was not destined ■ to; reach. .his new home, for he died last month en route to Russia. ;"Stingo, who was nine years old, was one of ; the fastest sprinters of his day, and he never ran unplaced, winning eight races and £11,971; in stakes., His victories included wins in; the. Fern Hill, Stakes and King Stand Stakes at Ascot, Molyneux "Cup (Liverpool), and King George Stakes (Goodwood) twice. At the time of his purchase by the Soviet he was standing at Newmarket at £48. Two other stallions exported at the same time to Bussia were Trade Wind, a four^yeac-old son of Fairway, who won the Silver Bell at Lanark for Lord Derby recently, and Fairbairn,1 another four-year-old son of Fairway, and who was sold by Lieut-Colonel Giles Lpder after his failure in the! recent Jockey Club Stakes. : ■;.■'..< .:•.■.■.•• i- ''.'■'■■ '