BOUGHT BY MR. S. GREEN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 13

BOUGHT BY MR. S. GREEN

Mr. Sol Green, proprietor oi the Underbank Stud, Victoria, has purchased for 750 guineas the five-year-old French mare Helleniqua, who won the Cambridgeshire on October 12, and is the winner oi 15 races in France, including four this season.

Mr. Green has also bought two other mares—Quick Trick, a seven-year-old by Hurry On from Bagatelle, by Gainsborough, for 340 guineas, and the two-year-old filly Gains Tor, by Gainsborough from Saddle Tor, by Hurry On from Leighon Tor, for 550 guineas.

Helleniqua started at an outside price in the Cambridgeshire, in which she carried 6.12> Her owner, M. Jacques Melier, had been racing horses *in France for 50 years, but Helleniqua was the first of his horses to race Ifl England. His real intention was to offer her as a stud mare to English breeders, but he failed to find a purchaser at prices ranging down to as little as half what Mr. Green paid for her, She was allowed to take her place in the Cambridgeshire field, netting the £2360 first prize. It Was her most important success,1 as practically all the French races she won were of a minor nature. She is little more than a pony. English Turf writers, after the Cambridgeshire, expressed surprise that a 15 hands mare could battle out a hard finish with the 17 hands Khasnadar and beat him by a head. Quick Trick, although only a young mare, has already had stud experience.1 She had her first foal in 1936— a bay filly, to Ethnarch or Legatee, She contested only two races, both being unplaced efforts in her three-year-old season. Gains Tor ran in three races this season up to the end of October, and she is a close relative to the Waikanae stallion Leighon.