A SUCCESSFUL ENTRY

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 27, 31 July 1940, Page 11

A SUCCESSFUL ENTRY

PARTNERS DO WELL

RECORD OF B. & S. NAUSBAUM

Luck in racing can be very fickle. It smiles on some and frowns on others, and cases can be repeatedly quoted where newcomers to the sport have won immediate success while the scales have tipped definitely against other owners. Just such an instance has i been brought very much to the notice of enthusiasts during the season now drawing to a close. With the entry of Messrs. A. Katranski, of Hastings, and B. Nausbaum, of Wellington, into the ranks of owners, it was a case of two newcomers entering the unknown, for what lay before them could not be foretold and what j measure of good fortune lay ahead was j equally obscured. j The partnership made their entry with the two-year-old bay daughter of the William the Third horse Valkyrian and the Gay Lad—Lady Talbot mare Chivalry who, under the norn de course of Sleeveless, was to quickly win fame for herself, although in her first season on the Turf it was not till her fourth outing that she got on the winning list Before again figuring under silk in public she was turned out for a spell and it was on its completion that the filly joined J. J. Waller's team at Awapuni to be got ready for her three-year-old career. The filly's breeding suggested stamina, for her grandam, Lady Talbot who was by Pilgrim's Progress out of Lady Lilian, by Phaeton out of Lady Zetland, a daughter of imported Forget-Me-Not. and she thus came from the best line of a highly-successful family. Incidentally, Lady Zetland won the New Zealand Cup in 1896 after having carried off the Great Easter and Autumn Handicaps two years earlier. Lady Lilian followed up the effort of her dam seven years later by also winning the Great Easter and Great Autumn Handicaps at Riccarton, and the record of the family can be carried still further in that Lady Talbot was a sister to Lady Victoria (dam of the New Zealand Cup winner Royal Star) j and a half-sister to Lady Minerva (dam of the Auckland Cup winner Minerval). SHOULD STAY. It is consequently not surprising to find Sleeveless proving capable of running out good mile events, even though in her earlier career she appeared to be only a sprinter. At her first three starts following upon the transfer to new quarters Sleeveless won scurry races at Foxton, Marton, and Otaki. It was a very auspicious entry upon her three-year-old career, but still better things were to follow when she beat a smart field in the Rimutaka Hack Handicap at Trentham last October, to make her record for the term read four starts for four wins. For a period—but such was not surprising—her form did not prove to be so consistent, and it was not till the following January that she returned to Trentham to carry her account stiJl further by winning the Anniversary Handicap, a mile event. However, in the period intervening two of her minor placings had come in" the Nainai Handicap at Trentham in October, Globe Trotter being the only one to beat her, and in the Stewards' Handicap at Riccarton, when Beaulivre was her victor. j Although she was accorded plenty of | public appearances under silk, the tasks I set her did not seriously trouble the filly and she returned to the scene of her earlier exploits in the current month to add the Members' Handicap to her record. During the course of the term Sleeveless won seven races, her winning account being completed with one win on the track on which she is now trained, that success coming in the Rongotea Handicap at the Manawatu Winter Meeting in May. In all, the filly has won £1740 stakemoney, but Mr. Katranski has not shared in the full amount, for in April last he disposed of his interest to Mr. S. Nausbaum. father of the other partowner. EARLY RETURN. Luck was to smile still further on the new partnership when they effected the purchase of Hunting Royal after the gelding had failed on the final day of the recent Wellington Meeting, for at his first start in the new colours the son of Hunting Song and Sangfroid scored at Marton last Saturday to'return in stake-money £135 towards the 700 guineas he cost the partners. This newcomer also hails from a successful family, two older relatives, Coon Song and Black Frost, both having proved their ability in heavy ground and it is to this family that Royal Damon, Royal Routine, a*nd Slippery belonged. The racing activities of Messrs. B. and S. Nausbaum do not end there, however, for they have the Roydon gelding Valroy in L. D. Berry's care at Hastings. Although the possessor of a fair turn of speed, it is very doubt-j ful whether the gelding, who is now in the 'chasing ranks, will go very far in the game. . Then they have a brace of rising two-year-olds—they will attain that age when the calendar turns over tomorrow—in J. J. Waller's care at Awapum, the one being a filly by Tiderace from Treasure Trove, a daughter of famous Desert Gold, and the other a colt by Ringmaster from Jewel of Asia, an imported mare. Whereas the filly is only the second foal of her dam—the first having been sold at a good figure to Mr. E. J. Watt, of Australia—the colt comes from a family that has already proved itself. Farmer Sir John, Coronation, and Pearl of Asia being earlier products of Jewel of Asia. Whether the future will continue to find the partners on the crest of the wave time alone will disclose, but their entry into the ranks of Dominion owners has certainly been one of the features of the season now virtually at its- close.