HIGH PEER MAKES GOOD

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 21, 24 July 1940, Page 13

HIGH PEER MAKES GOOD

High Peer, who , won the Waituna Hack and Hunters' Hurdles at Awapuni last Saturday under top weight after some- brilliant jumping, has raced consistently this season and he is one who might go on to still better performances, particularly on tracks that are not too heavy. As a three-year-old he had only two races, and as a four-year-old last season he appeared only once, but this term he has won three races and been placed seven times in eighteen starts, each of his wins being over hurdles. A brown gelding, High Peer is a son of the Polydamon horse Thomond, sire of several useful gallopers with limited opportunities. His dam, Elizabeth, who raced a few times as a five-year-old without success in the Poverty Bay district, is by the Treadmill— Glenowlet horse Nightmarch, a Stonyhurst product who won the C.J.C. and D.J.C. Champagne Stakes and belonged to the same branch of Madowla as Wild Chase, Madam Madcap, Masterpiece, Royal Stag, Moorfowl, Fracas, Vesperus, Brown Owl, etc. Elizabeths dam was Signal Girl, by the Clanranald horse Signalman, another Stonyhurst product, out of Bonomiana, a Soult mare who won several races on the flat and over hurdles in the Poverty Day district some thirty odd years High Peer was bred by Mr. H. D. Robinson, but he was secured for racing by Mr. W. M. Crystall, of ■falmerston North, who has always believed he would make a name for himself. The gelding carries Mr. Crystalls colours, but his trainer, W. E. Pine, has a partnership interest in him.