ROYAL OWNERSHIP
DHOT! AND MOON RAY
According to an Australian exchange H.R.H. the Duke of Kent has been presented with two horses for racing purposes in Australia, the Aga Khan making a gift of Dhoti and the Prince Aly Khan of Moon Ray. Dhoti has already arrived, and Moon Ray is on his way. Moon Ray has already proved himself a first-class galloper in England, and this season as a three-year-old he has been successful on five occasions. His best wins were secured in the Yarmouth Hastings Handicap, 1 mile, in which he carried 8.5 and ran the distance in lmin 35sec, and the Haydock Park Winwick Plate, also run over a mile and in which he carried 9.0.
Moon Ray was previously trained at Newmarket by Frank Butters. He is a brown gelding by the St. Leger winner Sandwich, a son of Sansovino, from Nan, by Jaeger, and he is a descendant of a great winning strain. His third dam, Moyglare, was a half-sister to Figaro, who won the July and Newmarket Stakes, and is the grandam of Garden of Allah, winner of the National Breeders' Plate, and other good horses in the line have been the Grand Prix winner Comrade, the Oaks winner Snow Marten, the St. Leger winner Salmon-Trout, and the successful stallion Salmagundi, now in the Dominion.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 43, 19 August 1939, Page 22
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