SINGAPORE VENTURE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 18, 23 January 1939, Page 13

SINGAPORE VENTURE

ALREADY NINE WINNERS

Two years ago some twenty yearlings were purchased in the Dominion for members of the Singapore Turf Club,! and eighteen of them were finally balloted among the participating members, the-other two having met with accidents before the ballot. It is interesting to record that already nine of these horses, ranked as three-year-olds in Malaya last year, have been winners of fifteen races. The most successful among these "griffins" has been the appropriatelynamed New Zealand (Paladin—Controversy), who had won four races up to the end of November. He was secured in the ballot by Mr. Leong Sin Nam, a Chinese millionaire. Four of the others have won two races each. The quartet are Woden (Siegfried—Allowance), March eta II (Irish Lancer —Some Breeze), Lord Gray (Lord Warden—Graceful), and Sir Patrick (Paper Money—Kilrhine). Winners of single events have been Prude (Nigh tmarch—Pride), Peggy Pride (Pink Coat—Air Pocket), Newzy (Bambury—Pelagia), and Just My Luck (Paladin—Maharanui). Sir Patrick, who looked One of the most promising of te contingent when they left, was disappointing in his early races, but later on he was a double winner among the ponies at Singapore, scoring in facile style. Another pony winner of interest at Singapore recently has been the Bronze Eagle—Madam Ristori mare Eagle's Eye, now five years old and sold to go to Malaya after winning in the Dominion two seasons ago. Sea Wrack, renamed Amazon, has failed so far to secure better than minor places in her new home. She will be recalled as having been sold for Malaya shortly after creating a big surprise when winning the Trial Plate on the second day of the Wellington Summer Meeting two years ago.